Cracked Archive - History
Their genitals aren't like ours. Theirs are special. Theirs are magic.
- By Luis Prada
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- August 17, 2015
Many historic events were such drunken shitshows that it's hard to imagine what modern civilization would even look like if not for the intervention of booze.
- By Pat Carnell
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- August 17, 2015
Most monuments are actually pretty crazy. But those ones are tiddlywinks compared to these tributes we almost had.
- By E. Reid Ross
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- August 11, 2015
Belarus is frequently called 'Europe's last dictatorship.' We sat down with a man from there, and this is what we learned
- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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- August 09, 2015
The best evidence of how batshit things got is that so many of the weirder stories just became footnotes in your history book.
- By Zachary Frey
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- August 06, 2015
From the most pivotal moments of massive wars to fun little factoids about historical figures, a little digging reveals that nothing played out exactly the way your history books claim.
- By Nathan Williams, Glenn Clayburn
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- July 30, 2015
Hey, scientists, cut it out.
- By Adam Wears
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- July 29, 2015
We often imagine our elders as being more prudish than we are today. But, well, you can see where this is going ...
- By C. Coville
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- July 28, 2015
A good murder mystery is pretty much the most enticing thing you can imagine.
- By Pauli Poisuo
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- July 22, 2015
We sent one of our interviewers to Washington D.C. to speak with a source at a national archive, about saving relics from America's past from ending up next to your Taco Bell receipt in the trash.
- By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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- July 20, 2015
In my version of a perfect world, every conspiracy theory would be true.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- July 09, 2015
As much as we like to complain about all the bullshit the world is throwing at us today, our Internet-less, video-game-free ancestors had it way, way worse.
- By Pauli Poisuo
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- June 25, 2015
If you owned a time machine and took a tour of the past, you'd see the same shit coming up over and over again.
- By Kasper Kauhanen
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- June 18, 2015
These are straight out of crime novels. The ones where the authors died mysteriously before finishing them.
- By Pauli Poisuo
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- June 17, 2015
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