Cracked Archive - History
6 Nightmarish Things People Did for Fun Before Electricity
The fun always stops when the lights come on and history proves it.
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- By Dimitra Nikolaou
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411 The 5 Craziest Ways People Defeated Terrifying Regimes
Sometimes beating totalitarian regimes means getting creative.
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- By Pat Carnell
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5 Bizarre Criminal Undergrounds That Are Bafflingly Huge
Sometimes, strange crime waves -- more apt for a Batman comic -- do happen in real life.
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- By E. Reid Ross, Robert Ngungi
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6 Awesomely Insane Guns People Actually Used (Pt. 2)
The 'who cares if it works, it'll be cool as hell!' approach to gunsmithing has given us some amazing results.
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- By Adam Wears, George Kemper, Ivan Farkas
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6 Insanely Advanced Technologies Found in Ancient Ruins
Some ancient technologies have turned out to be at least as good as, if not better than, the stuff our fancy-pants scientists today have developed.
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- By David Jones
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44 Important Parts of History You're Picturing Wrong
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5 Real Robberies With Better Twists Than Any Heist Movie
In real life thieves don't need helicopters or EMP devices to pull off crimes bigger than anything you've seen on the silver screen. You just need a ridiculous plan and the balls to carry it out.
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- By Chris Rio
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5 Things from History You Won't Believe You Can Experience
With each passing day we become less and less hopeful that anybody is going to invent time travel. Fortunately, there's ways around that.
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- By John Mulroy, Evan V. Symon , Justin Crockett, XJ Selman, Ivan Farkas
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5 Iconic Groups From History Everyone Pictures Incorrectly
Historical truth is a complicated and nuanced thing, so while there might be elements of truth to the popular story you know, it's rarely the complete truth.
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- By Luke John Smith, J. Wisniewski, John Martin, Jason Webb
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6 Archaeological Discoveries Scarier Than Any Horror Movie
Some things were probably buried for a reason...
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- By Adam Wears, Ivan Farkas
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5 Real-Life Horror Movies Deleted from Your History Books
Human history can -- and constantly does -- produce stories that are far more creepy and gruesome than any horror-movie hellbeast or latex-mask-sporting serial killer could ever aspire to be.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Mysteries of Ancient Religions (Easily Explained)
The little ploys that modern faith healers and shady preachers use to fleece the masses have been around for thousands of years, and if anything, they've only gotten less inspired over time.
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- By Luke John Smith
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The 5 Goofiest Pranks Ever Pulled (In The Middle of Wars)
What, you didn't know that pulling off hilariously childish shenanigans was an integral part of military service?
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- By Xavier Jackson
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5 Horrifying Attacks on America Your History Books Left Out
If this stuff happened today, there'd be a war. But due to extenuating circumstances at the time, they barely dented history.
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- By Zachary Frey
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7 Medically Proven Treatments That Clearly Started as a Joke
It's often downright baffling that a) people came up with these ideas and b) that it totally freaking worked.
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- By John Dubensky, Lillian Marx, JM McNab, Jordan Rudow
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