Cracked Archive - History
14 Colorful Now-You-Know Facts About Paint
Paints are made from fish, insects, and ... mummies?
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- By Shea
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28 5 Surprisingly Dark Backstories To Everyday Things
Sometimes the origins of things are just a big ol' crap pile.
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- By Tom Koff
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5 Crazy Ways Cold Cases Were Solved
Every once in a while, reality does a sick kick-flip and gives us a crime story worthy of a cartoon.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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4 Bonkers Secret Military Operations (That Failed Horribly)
Propelling warfare into the future one bad sci-fi plot at a time.
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- By Cedric Voets
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6 Details About America's First, Only, And Greatest Emperor
Many have never even heard about the reign of the United States' first and only monarch ...
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- By Ethan Tyrrell
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7 Ways The Pinkertons Became Who They Are
Are the Pinkertons who 'Red Dead Redemption' makes them out to be?
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- By Justin McGown
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14 Stats That Change How We See History
Hollywood lied to us. And so did the history books.
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- By Ryan Menezes, Cracked Writers
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5 Tales Of The Most WTF Neighborhood In Japan
Three red-light districts were established around the country, with Yoshiwara -- located in Edo (old-timey Tokyo) -- being the absolutely wildest of them all …
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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'The Public Universal Friend,' Or The 1776 US History Story You Never Learned In School
A lot of things happened in 1776, including the origin story of the America's (probably) first nonbinary doomsday prophet.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Skyscraper Wars: The Petty Battle For the World's Tallest Building
It might very well be the most expensive physical manifestation of 'What now, bro?'
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Nobody Really Wanted To Drink The Kool-Aid: 4 Big Misreported Historical Moments
Imagine your most annoying co-worker, but four times worse. Boom, now you're imagining Galileo.
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- By Mark Hill
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5 Times Butts Changed The Course Of History
Hold on to your ... you know what.
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- By Charles Smith
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6 Stunningly Stupid Moral Panics People Raged Over
Angry and stupid is never a winning combination.
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- By Nathan Williams
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15 Dropouts Who Found Success Post-School
Kids, stay in school. But if you don't, you're in good company.
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- By Shea
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The Rebecca Riots: When Welsh Farmers Dressed In Drag To Protest
Honestly, more violent riots should incorporate unnecessary theater.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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