Cracked Archive - History

Picking up stray trash could change the course of human history.

• By Cracked Writers
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• August 15, 2018

Sometimes the weirdest sources can be Deep Throats for the strangest things.

• By Adam Wears
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• August 12, 2018

Some technological advancements propelled us forward by leaps and bounds. Others were just gloriously silly.

• By Cracked Writers
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• August 11, 2018

Neutrality won't keep a country from being bombed if pilots don't know what they're flying over.

• By Adam Wears
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• August 06, 2018

What's the point of anything if it can't shoot bullets?

• By Cracked Writers
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• August 01, 2018

Some of the most inspiring moments in movie history were ... less so, in reality.

• By Alex Hanton, Steven Assarian
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• July 24, 2018

Here are some war-related problems from history you probably didn't see coming.

• By Adam Wears
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• July 23, 2018

Our ancestors took really dumb vacations.

• By Adam Wears
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• July 22, 2018

And they didn't even have duct tape.

• By Ivan Farkas
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• July 21, 2018

What is this crap?

• By Adam Wears
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• July 20, 2018

Money and drugs, baby.

• By Cracked Writers
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• July 18, 2018

Fire, wheel, beer, doorknob? Not quite.

• By Cracked Writers
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• July 14, 2018

History's greatest monsters were, on a personal level, shockingly normal.

• By Robert Evans
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• June 22, 2018

We like to think we're getting pretty good at spotting when a politician is lying to us ... and yet.

• By Stephan Roget
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• June 19, 2018

Thank you?

• By Nimby Smith
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• June 15, 2018