Cracked Archive - History
6 Historical Deaths That Read Like Crazy Myths (But Aren’t)
Our condolences, but a lightning strike to the exact center of your head is a pretty awesome way to go.
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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138 6 Fascinating Works Of Art Made By Our (Horny) Ancestors
Scientist have been digging up depraved artifacts for decades and, yes, all of this is real.
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- By Laura H
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- 78
6 Freak Natural Disasters That Were The Stuff Of Nightmares
In an incident taken straight from a Stephen King novel, a lake murdered 1,746 people overnight.
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- By Justin Crockett
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6 Iconic Moments In History You Never Knew Were Utter Messes
The most dangerous place in 2007 wasn't in Iraq; it was an Apple conference room.
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- By Adam Wears
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5 Famous Corpses That Ended Up In Totally Random Places
It turns out some historical figures continued to have amazing adventures long after they ceased living -- or parts of them had amazing adventures, at least.
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- By Cedric Voets
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5 Hilariously Ballsy Cons Pulled Off By Historical Figures
The United States congress has actually banned people from space -- and it's all thanks to moon stamps.
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- By Adam Wears
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5 Horrifying Murderers (You Never Knew Got Away With It)
We live in the crapsack regular universe where some of history's greatest monsters have completely gotten away with it.
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- By Adam Wears
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5 Badass Characters You're Picturing Totally Incorrectly
Pop culture provides us with a convenient shorthand to understand history, but most of the time pop culture is super duper drunk.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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5 Things That Were So Effective They Had To Be Banned
As if the dudes from 'MythBusters' weren't already awesome, their origin story lends them even more street cred.
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- By Dennis Fulton
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5 Fashion Trends That Began With WAY Different Intentions
Sometimes a clothing trend develops outside of the fashion world and catches on with the last people you'd think.
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- By James Kinneen
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6 Catastrophes With Horrifying Aftermaths History Left Out
After Lincoln died, he was given a dignified burial. Just kidding, his decomposing carcass was paraded from city to city before finally being put in the ground.
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- By Adam Wears
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7 WTF Times People Got Screwed Out Of Million-Dollar Ideas
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- By Justin Crockett
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- 205
6 Everyday Places That Hide Dark Historical Secrets
When we forget history, we end up with ice cream shops and schools built on the paved over remains of evil deeds.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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5 Weapons Of Carnage And Destruction (That Looked Silly AF)
Nothing drives human creativity more than a dire need for new ways to kill each other.
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- By Cedric Voets
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4 Vital Pieces Of Pop Culture We Lost Forever
There are countless important cultural milestones that have been lost to the annals of history for very stupid reasons.
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- By Henrik Magnusson
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