Cracked Archive - History
6 Details About America's First, Only, And Greatest Emperor
Many have never even heard about the reign of the United States' first and only monarch ...
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- By Ethan Tyrrell
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22 7 Ways The Pinkertons Became Who They Are
Are the Pinkertons who 'Red Dead Redemption' makes them out to be?
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- By Justin McGown
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5 Tales Of The Most WTF Neighborhood In Japan
Three red-light districts were established around the country, with Yoshiwara -- located in Edo (old-timey Tokyo) -- being the absolutely wildest of them all …
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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'The Public Universal Friend,' Or The 1776 US History Story You Never Learned In School
A lot of things happened in 1776, including the origin story of the America's (probably) first nonbinary doomsday prophet.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Skyscraper Wars: The Petty Battle For the World's Tallest Building
It might very well be the most expensive physical manifestation of 'What now, bro?'
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Nobody Really Wanted To Drink The Kool-Aid: 4 Big Misreported Historical Moments
Imagine your most annoying co-worker, but four times worse. Boom, now you're imagining Galileo.
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- By Mark Hill
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5 Times Butts Changed The Course Of History
Hold on to your ... you know what.
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- By Charles Smith
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6 Stunningly Stupid Moral Panics People Raged Over
Angry and stupid is never a winning combination.
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- By Nathan Williams
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The Rebecca Riots: When Welsh Farmers Dressed In Drag To Protest
Honestly, more violent riots should incorporate unnecessary theater.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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How Women Got To Wear Pants: The Dr. Mary Walker Story
Dr. Mary Walker path to the history books began with a pair of pants.
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- By Philip Yiannopoulos
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5 Historical Diet Tips That Were Dumb, Dumb, Dumb
Please don't replace meals with smoking.
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- By Mac Faber
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Susanna Salter Was the First American Woman Elected to Office (As a Joke)
They assumed no one would notice, and if they did, they definitely wouldn't vote for a woman ...
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Kentucky Meat Shower: Not A Lewd Act, But Still Gross
Best-case scenario, those guys definitely ate vulture vomit; worse-case, it was cannibalistic vulture vomit.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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55 Ways You're Picturing History Wrong
All our knowledge of history comes from movies, TV shows, and vague chitchat. Very little of it is true.
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- By Cracked Writers, Ryan Menezes
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Wartime Scarcity Created Nutella (Twice)
Necessity might be the mother of invention, but apparently, she has a short memory.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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