Cracked Archive - History
Badass Women History Class Totally Failed To Mention
Killer queens.
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- By Abraham Mireles
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74 5 Unknown People Who Shaped History (While Being Lunatics)
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
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- By Ryan Menezes, Nicholas Vrchoticky, Christian Markle
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5 Historical Places We've Managed To Totally Trash
Nothing is sacred.
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- By Kelly Stone
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5 Sports Scandals That Could Be Crazy AF Movies
Here's some stories so strange you can't NOT pay attention to them.
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- By Adam Wears
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Historical Deaths You Can’t Help But Laugh At
The universe has a flair for the dramatic and precisely zero chill.
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- By Adam Wears
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8 Ad Campaigns That Aged Like Garbage
A select few ad campaigns aged badly for reasons not even the most cynical pundit could have predicted.
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- By Pete Smith, Ryan Menezes, A. N. Ulriksen, K. Haeg
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Hearing The 3,000-Year-Old Mummy Was Disappointing
Didn’t even bother to confirm if the pyramids were made by aliens or good old-fashioned slave labor
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- By Luis Prada
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4 Storied American Institutions (With Screwed-Up Origins)
On some level, anything older than nine months has a questionable past. But, also, wow.
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- By Jordan Breeding
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5 Of The Most 'Wuh?' Facts History Class Never Covered
These hilarious stories should have been taught in every school.
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- By E.M. Caris
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6 Grand Mastermind Coups (That Fell Apart Immediately)
The Illuminati make it look so easy.
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- By Alex Hanton
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5 Historical Landmarks (That Are Total Frauds)
Some of the most historical sites in the world are just trying to compete with Disneyland.
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- By Alex Hanton
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5 'Old' Things That Are Way Newer Than You Think
Believe it or not, this stuff wasn't always there.
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- By Taylor Daine, E. Reid Ross, Mike Bedard, Abraham Mireles, Christian Markle
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5 Ordinary Jobs That Used To Be Crazy Dangerous
Back in the day, just about everything was more dangerous than it is now.
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- By Ivan Farkas, Christian Markle, Radha Shaw
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7 People Who Were Proven Wrong (As Hard As Humanly Possible)
There's being proven wrong and there's getting thoroughly owned.
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- By Zachary Frey
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The Insane Life of the Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth
The man who avenged Abraham Lincoln also cut off his own genitals.
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- By Mark Hill
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