Cracked Archive - History

4 Very 2020 Hobbies Of Old-School Celebs
It's reassuring to know when we hear the news talk about how our hobbies are dumb bullshit, several icons of history did the exact same stuff during their downtime.
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- By Adam Wears
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6 Normal Places People Claimed Were The Sites Of Ancient Legends
Sometimes people just roll up to a random island and scream, 'This is the REAL Garden of Eden!'
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- By Cedric Voets
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6 Famous 2000s Things (That Were Actually Awful)
When one looks back at that decade, we were all complete morons.
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- By Nathan Williams
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6 Crazy Stories That Got Cut From The Bible
Back when they were compiling the Bible, a ton of embarrassing stuff got cut.
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- By Alex Hanton
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Confederate Monuments Are Being Defaced In Gorgeous Ways
If a picture is worth 1000 words than this picture says, 'FU, Robert E. Lee' 200 times in a row.
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- By Dan Duddy
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4 Reasons Searching For Buried Treasure Sucks IRL
It's a lot less Indiana Jones (and a lot more lawsuits).
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- By Eirik Gumeny
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The 'It Was A Dark And Stormy Night' Author Had A Super Weird Life
The true story of the goofus behind the famous line.
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- By Mark Hill
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Isaac Newton's Toad Vomit Plague Serum Sold For $80Gs
When your only two options involve croaking.
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- By Cedric Voets
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The Apex-Bananas Crime Story Of The 70's
Man, the 1970s were absolutely bananas.
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- By Alex Hanton
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Radar Quad Bikes Uncover An Entire Lost Roman City
An end to trench archeology-fare.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Ridiculous Frauds Whose Schemes Worked (For A While)
Sometimes yelling 'I'm a king!' actually works.
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- By Alex Hanton
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Fenn's Hidden Treasure Has Finally Been Found! (Maybe ...)
Forrest Fenn's treasure has been discovered. At least according to Forrest Fenn.
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- By Dan Duddy
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Utterly WTF Ways People Died Chasing A Story
The pen is mightier than the sword, until the writer gets decapitated.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Totally Bonkers Emergency Plans Countries Prepped For
Many of our civic institutions possess the calculated vision of a 5 AM drunk ordering 2,000 AA batteries off Amazon.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Historical Pandemic Conspiracies More Crackers Than Today's
This has happened before, it will happen again.
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- By Maggie Clancy
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