Cracked Archive - History
Germans Started Solving Secret Soviet Crimes (A Piece At A Time)
Trying to see the bigger picture, one string of paper at a time.
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- By Cedric Voets
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11 The Halifax Slasher, The Blood-Thirsty Public Menace ... Who Didn't Exist
Plot twist: There never was a Halifax Slasher.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The 4 Racist Defining Moments In Gun Control History
Like a lot of origins of American history, it has roots in crapping on Black people.
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- By Michael Dawson
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5 Reasons To Learn Cockney Rhyming Slang, The Weirdest And Best English Slang
If you ever wanted to sound like a character in a Guy Ritchie movie, here's the first step.
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- By Alex Hanton
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Looking For The Best Medieval Artists? Check For Blue Teeth.
You’ve got a little gemstone in your teeth there.
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- By Cedric Voets
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5 Huge Companies That Once Were Failing Miserably
If things went a little differently, these companies wouldn't now exist at all.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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'Utopia' Is One Of Our Most Important Books (That We Know Nothing About)
That’s where we’re at: a linguistic scavenger hunt.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Terrifying Serial Killers Who Never Got Caught
We regret to inform you that the world has a surplus of unaccounted for serial killers.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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6 WTF Military Plans Too Dumb For Movies
Sometimes a plan comes together perfectly. Not these times.
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- By Zachary Frey
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Europe's Greatest Warship Was Defeated By A Stiff Breeze
The bigger they are, the quicker they'll sink.
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- By Cedric Voets
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The Weird, Weird Tale Of Mike The Headless Chicken
For all we know, Mike was blessed by some very sick god and could have lived for hundreds of years.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Con Man So Good, He Had Mind Control Powers (Basically)
Sometimes if you yell
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- By Alex Hanton
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4 Beautifully Dumb Schemes From America's Weirdest Spy Agency
As World War II loomed, President Franklin Roosevelt decided to found the wackiest spy agency in American history.
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- By Alex Hanton
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The Bacon Craze Was Created By Corporate Conspiracy
Healthy diets aren't profitable, so now we have bacon lattes.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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When First Invented, Everyone Hated Shopping Carts
You'd think Americans would love anything that let them be lazier.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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