Cracked Archive - History

These historical finds don't belong in museums, they belong in horror movies.

• By Adam Wears
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• October 29, 2018

Our ancestors were some of the toughest people to ever live.

• By Alex Hanton, E. Reid Ross, Ivan Farkas, Laura H, Alan Corcoran
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• October 15, 2018

You might be surprised how cartoonishly evil some people can be.

• By Adam Wears
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• October 11, 2018

Even the best minds mankind has ever encountered behaved like hormonal idiots when they were young.

• By Raoni Lacerda, Peter I. Santiago
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• September 25, 2018

Some of histories worst atrocities were thought up by people who were only trying to help.

• By Nathan Williams
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• September 19, 2018

History is a vast, fascinating, and occasionally very stupid thing.

• By Alex Hanton, Taylor Daine, E.M. Caris, Dan Hopper, James Freeth
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• September 18, 2018

Fake news about fake news?

• By Cracked Writers
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• September 15, 2018

A few mind-blowing conspiracies came scary close to actually changing the world.

• By Jacopo della Quercia , Alex Hanton
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• September 12, 2018

Apparently, George Washington was marked for greatness before he was ever born.

• By Cracked Writers
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• September 12, 2018

Most of these people would never said that thing you think they said.

• By Aquiles Cacho
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• September 11, 2018

Mankind has always been looking for a reason to shoot at each other.

• By Cracked Writers
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• September 08, 2018

Some of the little details about 9/11 are crazier than others.

• By Adam Wears
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• September 06, 2018

Take a gander at some of these Cold War shenanigans.

• By Adam Wears
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• August 30, 2018

This film is a valuable contribution to the cinematic arts.

• By Cracked Writers
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• August 29, 2018

The simple eye patch is a much more advanced piece of technology than you realize.

• By Cracked Writers
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• August 25, 2018