Cracked Archive - History
A lot of famous landmarks have a certain period in their past where they looked more like a cannibal nightclub than something you'd put on a postcard.
- By Justin Crockett
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- April 02, 2017
Life for women before Roe v. Wade was just as unpleasant as you imagined.
- By Robert Evans
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- March 30, 2017
Even in the worst employment circumstances, however, few of us have had to deal with the monstrous outfits our great-grandparents wore to work.
- By Carolyn Burke
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- March 28, 2017
Today's modern soldiers have to contend with things you never did when playing with G.I. Joes in your bedroom.
- By Michael Hossey
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- March 23, 2017
Possibly the weirdest thing humans do is come up with something and then immediately act like it's always been around.
- By Nathan Kamal, Jordan Breeding
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- March 22, 2017
These lucky so-and-so's not only stumbled onto amazing gifts from the universe itself but they found them while sleepwalking through their everyday lives.
- By Chris Radomile
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- March 21, 2017
Celebrities being friends is not unusual. What is, however, is how many celebrities from totally different fields (or even time periods) knew each other before they got famous.
- By Rachel P.
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- March 14, 2017
Allison Washington was a transgender girl in the 1960s. Here's what she learned growing up in the 'trans dark ages.'
- By Robert Evans
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- February 26, 2017
The first guy to sail to the New World, the first guy to perform successful heart surgery, and the first guy to have a 20-inch wiener all have something in common: They might be lying.
- By Zach Sands, PhD, Ivan Farkas
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- February 23, 2017
The more you learn about the past, the more you prefer the vague, sterile version of it you were taught in school.
- By Stephan Roget
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- February 21, 2017
Turns out, we LOVE witch hunts. We do them all the time, whether we're freaking out about clowns, the poor, or yes, even vampires.
- By Justin Crockett
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- February 15, 2017
We're not saying these folks are right -- hell, we're not even saying they're sane. We're just saying what if?
- By Nathan Williams
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- February 15, 2017
Amidst all the moral lessons and dubious historical accounts, the Bible is chock full of examples of God just messing with people.
- By Israel SH
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- February 13, 2017
Here's some stuff about orgasms and poop.
- By Rachel P.
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- February 08, 2017
Since saying that America still struggles with school shootings is a championship-level understatement, we wanted to get Amanda's perspective on what happened then, and what's happened since.
- By Mark Hill
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- February 08, 2017
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