Cracked Archive - History
6 Famous 2000s Things (That Were Actually Awful)
When one looks back at that decade, we were all complete morons.
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- By Nathan Williams
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76 6 Crazy Stories That Got Cut From The Bible
Back when they were compiling the Bible, a ton of embarrassing stuff got cut.
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- By Alex Hanton
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Confederate Monuments Are Being Defaced In Gorgeous Ways
If a picture is worth 1000 words than this picture says, 'FU, Robert E. Lee' 200 times in a row.
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- By Dan Duddy
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4 Reasons Searching For Buried Treasure Sucks IRL
It's a lot less Indiana Jones (and a lot more lawsuits).
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- By Eirik Gumeny
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The 'It Was A Dark And Stormy Night' Author Had A Super Weird Life
The true story of the goofus behind the famous line.
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- By Mark Hill
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Isaac Newton's Toad Vomit Plague Serum Sold For $80Gs
When your only two options involve croaking.
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- By Cedric Voets
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The Apex-Bananas Crime Story Of The 70's
Man, the 1970s were absolutely bananas.
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- By Alex Hanton
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Radar Quad Bikes Uncover An Entire Lost Roman City
An end to trench archeology-fare.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Ridiculous Frauds Whose Schemes Worked (For A While)
Sometimes yelling 'I'm a king!' actually works.
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- By Alex Hanton
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Fenn's Hidden Treasure Has Finally Been Found! (Maybe ...)
Forrest Fenn's treasure has been discovered. At least according to Forrest Fenn.
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- By Dan Duddy
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Utterly WTF Ways People Died Chasing A Story
The pen is mightier than the sword, until the writer gets decapitated.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Totally Bonkers Emergency Plans Countries Prepped For
Many of our civic institutions possess the calculated vision of a 5 AM drunk ordering 2,000 AA batteries off Amazon.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Historical Pandemic Conspiracies More Crackers Than Today's
This has happened before, it will happen again.
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- By Maggie Clancy
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Why Your City Looks Ugly AF
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- By William Kuechenberg
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Dumb Moments In History: When Rich Weirdos Hand-Picked The Next Jesus
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- By Mark Hill
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