Cracked Archive - History
5 Hilariously Ballsy Cons Pulled Off By Historical Figures
The United States congress has actually banned people from space -- and it's all thanks to moon stamps.
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- By Adam Wears
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117 5 Horrifying Murderers (You Never Knew Got Away With It)
We live in the crapsack regular universe where some of history's greatest monsters have completely gotten away with it.
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- By Adam Wears
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5 Badass Characters You're Picturing Totally Incorrectly
Pop culture provides us with a convenient shorthand to understand history, but most of the time pop culture is super duper drunk.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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5 Things That Were So Effective They Had To Be Banned
As if the dudes from 'MythBusters' weren't already awesome, their origin story lends them even more street cred.
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- By Dennis Fulton
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5 Fashion Trends That Began With WAY Different Intentions
Sometimes a clothing trend develops outside of the fashion world and catches on with the last people you'd think.
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- By James Kinneen
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- 141
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6 Catastrophes With Horrifying Aftermaths History Left Out
After Lincoln died, he was given a dignified burial. Just kidding, his decomposing carcass was paraded from city to city before finally being put in the ground.
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- By Adam Wears
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7 WTF Times People Got Screwed Out Of Million-Dollar Ideas
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- By Justin Crockett
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6 Everyday Places That Hide Dark Historical Secrets
When we forget history, we end up with ice cream shops and schools built on the paved over remains of evil deeds.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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5 Weapons Of Carnage And Destruction (That Looked Silly AF)
Nothing drives human creativity more than a dire need for new ways to kill each other.
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- By Cedric Voets
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4 Vital Pieces Of Pop Culture We Lost Forever
There are countless important cultural milestones that have been lost to the annals of history for very stupid reasons.
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- By Henrik Magnusson
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5 Famous Historical Bad Guys (And Their Side Of The Story)
The following origin stories may not be as well-documented as Krypton exploding, but they all actually happened in reality.
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- By Martin Kivell, Stephan Roget
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4 Big Events With Weird Dark Sides (That Nobody Talks About)
Pop culture history can be a little light on the 'history' part -- and if you revisit the 'official' versions of a few of these cultural milestones, you might find a few very big parts of the story missing.
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- By Blair Dodge, Nathan Kamal
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- 201
Thou Shalt Maybe Kill: 5 Bible Facts Everyone Gets Wrong
Despite its massive influence, there are still a few very basic points we get wrong about the Bible.
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- By Alex Buchanan, Guy Bigel
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5 Stories That Prove Everyone Gets WW2 Wrong
We like to think we know everything there is to about World War II but, well, get ready ready for a history lesson, folks.
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- By Zachary Frey
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5 Ordinary Things Made Historic Via Publicity Stunts
Many of the things we consider iconic elements of our culture began as cheap grabs for attention.
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- By Orrin R. K.
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