Cracked Archive - History
Can't Make It Up: The Reason Oklahoma's Shaped Like That
Why is Oklahoma?
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- By Amanda Mannen
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33 5 Historical Texts That Were Surprisingly Filthy
The authors who wrote these works have been dead for centuries, so we've passed the event horizon from 'prurient' to 'educational.'
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- By Alex Hanton
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U.S. Presidents Can't Really Accept Gifts (Except For Occasional Lions)
Never look a gift lion in the mouth.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Mailmen Really Did Use To Deliver Babies
Back off, storks, this is USPS territory.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Inventor of Modern Condoms' Family Battle To Get Their Factory Back
Fromm was forced by the Nazis to sell his business at a fraction of its value because Fromm was Jewish and Nazis are evil.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Bonehead Reason Coca-Cola Was Only A Nickel For Over 70 Years
Open Happiness -- it's only empty one out of nine times.
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- By Cedric Voets
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The Eyebrow-Arching Tale Of The 'Q' Of 2000, John Titor
Turns out that posting on wild claim on Internet forums of inside knowledge of society inner working and future events and actually being believed isn't new.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Victorian-era England Fought Public Peeing With ... Architecture?
The wonders of geometry, everyone.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Creepshow Unsolved Crimes
All of these true stories are like 30 True Detective episodes rolled into one.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Goofy Ways Designing The Euro Was A Major Pain
The Euro is the perfect symbol of the EU -- the good, the bad and the bureaucratic.
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- By Cedric Voets
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One of the World's Most Prolific Serial Killers Was ... A Yugoslavian Grannie
It’s a real shame that her trial took place before the advent of television.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Preacher Who Tried To End Inequality By Building A Robot Jesus
Have you tried turning your Messiah on and off again?
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- By Cedric Voets
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5 Unsolved Mysteries To Stroke Your Chin Over
We know it's our responsibility to investigate every crime, but things have been hectic lately, and we've fallen behind.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Huge Scandals That Now Seem Pretty Dumb In Retrospect
If things are getting back to normal, that means we'll get back to making a huge deal over the dumbest things.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Everyone Wants to Take Credit For Hitler's Dumb Mustache
It was controversial way before it became associated with the ultimate evil.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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