Cracked Archive - History
The Year That We Had 15 Months
The Roman calendar wasn't made in a day -- or in a normal year.
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- By Cedric Voets
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10 Photos Of The Past That Look Like Trippy Fantasy
Today is the day we'll all look at a guy wearing a pufferfish as a helmet.
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- By Alex Hanton
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The Mysterious Post-Death Journey Of Rasputin’s Dick
Moral of the story: Never buy a severed dick.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Jimmy Carter's Hemorrhoids Offer A Weird Historical Parallel To Trump's White House
It must have been a real pain in the butt for the former President to speak out about his condition.
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- By Carly Tennes
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The Inspiring Tale Of America's First Dumb Trashy Millionaire
Even back then a McMansion couldn't buy class.
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- By Mac Faber
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5 Historic Figures With Drastically Different Descendants
Sometimes taking your own path goes down some weird roads.
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- By E.M. Caris
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How A $40 Million Lotto Heist Changed Philosophy History
You don't get into philosophy for the money, but that doesn't mean you can't beat the odds.
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- By Cedric Voets
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How A Roman Emperor's Enemies Accidentally Turned Them Into A Trans Icon
How is making them extra awesome going to erase them from history?
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- By Cedric Voets
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The Wild (Incestuous) Story Of The 'Adam and Eve' Of Hamsters
It involves infanticide, cannibalism, incest, and some combinations thereof.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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That Time Tesla Casually Invented The Cattle Prod
Let's go to the circus with Uncle Nikola.
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- By Cedric Voets
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6 WTF Spy Tech Plans That Somehow Worked
James Bond's Q has been putting in too much work.
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- By Nathan Williams
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The Nun Who Who Claimed To Taste Jesus's Foreskin
Even her fellow devotees thought she was weird.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Fun Places in America With Screwed-Up Racist Histories
Do you enjoy being told that things are racist? If not, too bad.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Trans And Non-Conforming Badasses That Never Made It To History Books
Badass doesn't have a gender.
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- By Chris Corlew
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5 Old (And Odd) Origins Of Common Fashions
Sometimes being fashionable wasn't about being frivolous.
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- By Christian Markle
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