Cracked Archive - History
'The Public Universal Friend,' Or The 1776 US History Story You Never Learned In School
A lot of things happened in 1776, including the origin story of the America's (probably) first nonbinary doomsday prophet.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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16 Skyscraper Wars: The Petty Battle For the World's Tallest Building
It might very well be the most expensive physical manifestation of 'What now, bro?'
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Nobody Really Wanted To Drink The Kool-Aid: 4 Big Misreported Historical Moments
Imagine your most annoying co-worker, but four times worse. Boom, now you're imagining Galileo.
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- By Mark Hill
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5 Times Butts Changed The Course Of History
Hold on to your ... you know what.
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- By Charles Smith
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6 Stunningly Stupid Moral Panics People Raged Over
Angry and stupid is never a winning combination.
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- By Nathan Williams
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The Rebecca Riots: When Welsh Farmers Dressed In Drag To Protest
Honestly, more violent riots should incorporate unnecessary theater.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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How Women Got To Wear Pants: The Dr. Mary Walker Story
Dr. Mary Walker path to the history books began with a pair of pants.
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- By Philip Yiannopoulos
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5 Historical Diet Tips That Were Dumb, Dumb, Dumb
Please don't replace meals with smoking.
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- By Mac Faber
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Susanna Salter Was the First American Woman Elected to Office (As a Joke)
They assumed no one would notice, and if they did, they definitely wouldn't vote for a woman ...
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Kentucky Meat Shower: Not A Lewd Act, But Still Gross
Best-case scenario, those guys definitely ate vulture vomit; worse-case, it was cannibalistic vulture vomit.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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55 Ways You're Picturing History Wrong
All our knowledge of history comes from movies, TV shows, and vague chitchat. Very little of it is true.
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- By Cracked Writers, Ryan Menezes
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Wartime Scarcity Created Nutella (Twice)
Necessity might be the mother of invention, but apparently, she has a short memory.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Essay About Farting -- That Argued for Women's Rights
The secret’s out: Lady laughter and tears are just held-in farts.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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German 'Robin Hood' Once Got The Military To Help Him Rob A Mayor
Unlike most outlaw heroes, he didn't even need a good reason for his crime.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Nightmare Fuel: Thomas Edison Invented (Terrifying) Talking Dolls
He apparently searched his mind for what kinds of sounds people might like and settled on 'Bible verses screeched frantically by my terrified factory staff.'
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- By Amanda Mannen
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