Cracked Archive - History
Here are five phrases everyone assumes are lies, that can totally be true. Sometimes.
- By Gladstone
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- January 04, 2015
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
Sometimes beating totalitarian regimes means getting creative.
- By Pat Carnell
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- December 23, 2014
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
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
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
Canada is routinely mocked for being nice, the last thing you expect to hear about is shit like this.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- December 05, 2014
Be grateful you don't live in a time when medical misunderstandings would occasionally cause the horrible deaths of thousands of people.
- By C. Coville
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- December 03, 2014
The 'who cares if it works, it'll be cool as hell!' approach to gunsmithing has given us some amazing results.
- By Adam Wears, George Kemper, Ivan Farkas
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- November 30, 2014
Carl Wilkens was right in the middle of the Rwandan Genocide. He rescued hundreds from unspeakable violence. Cracked sat down to talk with him about just what it takes to stand up and stick your thumb in the eye of Pure Human Evil.
- By Robert Evans, Chris Wilkens
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- November 26, 2014
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.
- By David Jones
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- November 18, 2014
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.
- By Chris Rio
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- November 14, 2014
With each passing day we become less and less hopeful that anybody is going to invent time travel. Fortunately, there's ways around that.
- By John Mulroy, Evan V. Symon , Justin Crockett, XJ Selman, Ivan Farkas
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- November 12, 2014
If you were actually born in the '90s, you don't really remember the '90s. And that's why you're wrong about the decade.
- By John Devore
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- November 07, 2014
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