Cracked Archive - History
6 Vintage Ads Companies Would Never Get Away With Today
Back in the olden days, advertisers made the bold move of using the saddest pictures possible to depress viewers into buying their products out of pity.
- By Kristi Harrison
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- February 02, 2015
The 5 Most Incredible Pranks Pulled With Major Landmarks
These stunts range from merely dickish to grossly illegal, and each is still admirable in its own way.
- By Natso Baatarkhuu, Justin Crockett, Ivan Farkas
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- January 31, 2015
The 5 Most Insane Things Anyone Ever Did for Love
Getting married isn't always easy.
- By C. Coville
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- January 29, 2015
6 Tiny Mistakes That Shaped Huge Parts of Modern History
The shaping of history is a lot less Illuminati and a lot more the 3 Stooges.
- By Alexander Pan
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- January 28, 2015
5 Insane Things You Don't Know About Letters of the Alphabet
The alphabet's been playing you for a sap.
- By Chris Bucholz
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- January 25, 2015
5 Historical Figures More Terrifying Than Any Horror Villain
Jason Vorhees would run away screaming at the sight of any of these real-life monsters.
- By Janel Comeau
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- January 25, 2015
5 Famous Historical Figures You Didn't Know Were Perverts
We get so tied up in slut-shaming contemporary celebrities that it's easy to forget how some of history's greatest minds spent most their energy having the nastiest sex they could get their hands on.
- By Luke John Smith
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- January 11, 2015
6 Historical Badasses Who Looked Way Sillier Than You Think
Many groups of people in history who we'd otherwise admire (or at least be reasonably scared of) were very silly looking.
- By C. Coville
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- January 08, 2015
6 Nightmarish Things People Did for Fun Before Electricity
The fun always stops when the lights come on and history proves it.
- By Dimitra Nikolaou
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- January 07, 2015
5 Obvious Lies That Are Sometimes True
Here are five phrases everyone assumes are lies, that can totally be true. Sometimes.
- By Gladstone
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- January 04, 2015
5 Historical Wars That Need Movie Adaptations Now
Many of history's wartime stories are still wandering around like unwanted pets in the cold, eager to be accepted into the warm, loving arms of Hollywood.
- By C. Coville
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- December 31, 2014
The 5 Craziest Ways People Defeated Terrifying Regimes
Sometimes beating totalitarian regimes means getting creative.
- By Pat Carnell
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- December 23, 2014
5 People in History Who Were Terrible at Their Jobs
It turns out history has had just as many screw-ups and lazy people as we do now.
- By C. Coville
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- December 10, 2014
5 Bizarre Criminal Undergrounds That Are Bafflingly Huge
Sometimes, strange crime waves -- more apt for a Batman comic -- do happen in real life.
- By E. Reid Ross, Robert Ngungi
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- December 10, 2014
5 Books That Don't Deserve the Amount of Hate They Get
Here then, for your hating pleasure, are some of the most hated books in the world, and also maybe why we should be nicer to them.
- By Chris Bucholz
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- December 09, 2014
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