Cracked Archive - History
5 Common Insults That Reveal Dark Things About Society
'Slut' or something much worse is currently tops to degrade a female perceived as promiscuous, but 'hussy' is a close relative and once the preferred a-bomb of past a-holes.
- By Karen Baxter
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- November 12, 2015
6 Deadly Serious Cold War Moments (That Now Look Hilarious)
Wars aren't wacky. But wars are fought by people, and people -- if the feces-wracked flow of the stagnant fjord of human history has taught us anything -- are truly, deeply stupid.
- By Amanda Mannen
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- November 11, 2015
Your Neighbors Try To Murder You: 6 Realities In A Genocide
We sat down with a survivor of the Bosnian genocide to try to get some small hint of what it's like, and to try to understand how this even happens.
- By Robert Evans, Sudbin
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- November 10, 2015
21 Important Moments in History (That Were Sex-Fests)
It turns out history is loaded with freakier boning than anything the porn industry can churn out.
- By AM Smiley
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- November 07, 2015
5 Dark Secrets You Never Noticed About Sesame Street
If you grew up with Sesame Street, you learned about a whole bunch of different disorders without even knowing it.
- By Matt Cowan
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- November 03, 2015
6 Horrible Historical Disasters (We Actually Saw Coming)
We've got some finger pointing to do.
- By Adam Wears
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- November 01, 2015
Creepy Places You Can Visit
If Disneyland isn't your cup of tea, you can always try these amazing places!
- By AM Smiley
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- October 31, 2015
16 Early Photographs That Prove History Was Evil
The past contained a lot more mind-numbing terror than history class was comfortable revealing to you.
- By Mark Hill
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- October 28, 2015
Famous Mysteries (No One Realizes Were Solved)
Everyone who stills believe these must not know what Google is.
- By AM Smiley
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- October 24, 2015
6 Horrifying Facts That Get Left Out Of History
If you think your future knowledge would help you in the past, we have bad news for you.
- By Joe Hayes
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- October 21, 2015
5 Huge Marketing Campaigns That Were Complete Catastrophes
Sometimes the brainwashing overlords in charge of telling us what to buy go wildly off the rails, and it's always fun to sit back and soak in their failure.
- By Chris Rio, Evan V. Symon
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- October 18, 2015
6 Shockingly Badass People Who Lived In The 19th Century
When you think of the Victorian era you probably picture sexually repressed spinsters and sad little orphans. Not so fast though.
- By Kathy Benjamin
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- October 16, 2015
6 Stupid Bets That People Won As Insanely As Possible
Once Eisenhower's chief of staff bet General Bernard "Monty" Montgomery a B-17 Flying Fortress, he was going to get it.
- By Aaron Short
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- October 13, 2015
The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed
A fool and their dignity are easily parted.
- By AM Smiley
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- October 10, 2015
21 Absurd Lies Companies Have Used To Sell Products
We like to think the term 'snake oil' is reserved for old-timey traveling salesman and the holistic medicine aisle of Whole Foods, but it turns out it hits closer to home than that.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- October 07, 2015
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