Cracked Archive - History
Gut-Wrenching Things Done By Beloved Presidents
How the mighty have stayed perfectly upright.
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- By Cedric Voets
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147 6 True Crimes (Starring The Dumbest People Possible)
Not all of us can be the next Heisenberg.
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- By Alex Hanton
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American Horror Stories That Didn’t Make It Into Your Textbooks
We're happy to gloat about our country's best bits, but it's time we talked about the stuff buried in our proverbial backyard.
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- By Adam Wears
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Total Ding-Dongs Whose Lawsuits Blew Up In Their Faces
Suing your enemies into oblivion can be fun, but not when it backfires.
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- By Blair Dodge
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6 Big Moments In History (People Forgot About Immediately)
If you want to make the history books, timing is everything.
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- By Elorm Kojo Ntumy, Steven Assarian, Christian Markle
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Silly Ways Old-Timey People Were Just As Vain As Us
We're too vain and shallow these days? Spoilers: We've always been like that.
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- By Adam Wears
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Mass Panics That Look Waaaay Different In Retrospect
The panic, it is so banal!
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- By Diego C., Jacquelyn Mead
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5 Famous People Side Projects That Seem Weird Now
We all contain crazy-ass multitudes.
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- By Mark Hill
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5 Huge Disasters Caused By Idiots
We’ve all done dumb things for dumb reasons, but never on this scale.
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- By Emanuel-Daniel Mighiu
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5 Brutal Murderers Who Aaaalmost Got Away With It
Turns out that karma loves a cliffhanger.
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- By Alex Hanton, E. Reid Ross, Diego C., Ryan Menezes, Abraham Mireles
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Old-Timey Icons With WTF Habits
These a-list icons had a-hole tendencies.
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- By Adam Wears
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Achievements That Emerged From Dark Times Like Now
Well folks, it's time to invent calculus.
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- By Eirik Gumeny
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Quotes That Are Quoted Totally Incorrectly
'Read this article, on the website Cracked' - Charlemagne
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- By Ryan Menezes, Abraham Mireles
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Trivial And Nonsensical Rules In Congress
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- By Jordan Breeding
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7 'What' Side Stories From Famous Moments In History
Historically, important doesn't always mean serious.
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- By Alex Hanton, Blair Dodge, Ryan Menezes, Christian Markle, Matthew Z. Wood, Richard C. Shaffer
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