Cracked Archive - History

Sliced bread was not a groundbreaking invention. Not all pictures are worth a thousand words. An apple a day doesn't keep the doctor away.

• By Stephan Roget
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• April 24, 2018

The coolest-looking nightclubs of all time belonged to 1890s France.

• By Cracked Writers
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• April 21, 2018

He was a killing machine who could only count to six.

• By Cedric Voets
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• April 18, 2018

Teeny tanks played an explosive role in WWII until everyone figured out their one dumb weakness.

• By Cracked Writers
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• April 18, 2018

Hundreds of years ago, some Native American tribes actually held a deep respect for people who identified themselves as outside the gender binary -- or as they were called, 'two-spirits.'

• By Cracked Writers
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• April 14, 2018

Sometimes we get the story wrong entirely, and it's not like the biopic is going to correct us.

• By Adam S.
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• April 09, 2018

It takes ages for a city to truly change. But there are exceptions

• By E. Reid Ross
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• April 08, 2018

Powerful people have powerful enemies, and the dead have a hard time fighting back

• By E. J. Diaz
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• April 02, 2018

It's standard practice for ships to keep station cats aboard for keeping the mice at bay.

• By Cracked Writers
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• March 28, 2018

Sometimes we ignore all of the chaotic insanity that typically accompanies history.

• By Kelly Stone
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• March 25, 2018

A Nazi U-boat infiltrated Canada and no one figured it out until 1981.

• By Cracked Writers
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• March 24, 2018

What’s a better sniping position than shooting through a fake horse’s anus?

• By Cracked Writers
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• March 07, 2018

And you thought pooping in your new date’s bathroom was embarrassing.

• By Cracked Writers
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• March 03, 2018

How was this an actual plan in the 1990s???

• By Cracked Writers
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• February 28, 2018

Some supposedly modern societies end up ridiculously behind the curve.

• By Daisy Walters, Andrea Meno, Roman Odarenko
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• February 24, 2018