Cracked Archive - History
Many of the things you think you know about Vietnam turn out to be complete bullshit.
- By Alex Hanton, Eric Yosomono, Adam Page
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- June 09, 2013
Here are four baffling historical pictures with amazing true backstories.
- By Kristi Harrison
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- June 06, 2013
Even among theories like these (which count their believers in the millions), you find that the whole thing is usually based on some embarrassingly simple misunderstanding.
- By Douglas A. McDonnell, M. Asher Cantrell
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- June 06, 2013
Blessed are the peacemakers, right?
- By Dustin Koski, Sam Jackson
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- June 02, 2013
In some ways, pirates were bizarrely ahead of the societal curve. In fact, some of their viewpoints would be heartily endorsed by the campus newspaper of a liberal arts college.
- By David Reidy, Paige Turner
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- May 30, 2013
There are common words that you've probably used thousands of times in your life whose origins lay not in an inspired bard trying to expand the way we communicate, but in some dickholes messing with other people or just plain being nasty.
- By Augustus Johnson
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- May 27, 2013
When mankind first figured out how this mysterious thing called electricity worked, everyone went a little crazy for a while there.
- By Salla Maaria
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- May 25, 2013
When the time came to tell their rivals to eat shit, they instead turned around and said, 'Sure thing, buddy, let me help you with that.'
- By Robin O'Lachlan, Alex Hanton, Eric Yosomono
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- May 23, 2013
If you're going into battle, you've got two wardrobe options: You can dress in something practical -- camouflage, body armor, boring shit like that -- or you can slap on a SpongeBob costume.
- By George Oduor
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- May 20, 2013
If we just hadn't forgotten about all of these lesser-known, yet way crazier versions of huge news stories, maybe we could have avoided some of the tragedy.
- By Steve Shapiro
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- May 10, 2013
Hooray for Cinco de Mayo, the day America celebrates Mexico's victory over France!
- By Brendan McGinley
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- May 04, 2013
Sometimes karma just decides to take a holiday and leaves us to sort ourselves out.
- By Xavier Jackson
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- April 25, 2013
There were never quick-draw artists who could shoot a six gun out of your hand with another six gun. But the basics were true, right? Well ... not exactly.
- By J. Wisniewski, Kevin Nakamura
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- April 24, 2013
There is no shortage of extraordinary tales of human endurance out there just waiting to be made into Oscar-baiting movie scripts.
- By Jacopo della Quercia , Ricardo Rivera
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- April 20, 2013
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