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25 Team-Ups in History That Would Have Changed Everything
Tesla and Mark Twain were homeys and Da Vinci and Machiavelli once worked together on a plot to steal a river. This got us wondering what other duos might have tag-teamed history if cost and the time-space continuum weren't an issue.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- April 15, 2012
The 5 Most Impossible Sniper Shots Ever Made
Shooting from such a long range incurs a wide array of difficulties, leading to situations where making a successful shot is, by all logic and reason, impossible. It is in these situations where the best snipers sniff, wipe the sweat from their eyes and make the shot anyway.
- By Xavier Jackson, James Benoist
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- April 14, 2012
The 8 Most Incredible Things Slapped Together in a Day
It's amazing what humanity can accomplish in a moment's notice.
- By Christina H
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- April 09, 2012
5 Terrifying Killers (That Turned Out to be Mass Panics)
Humans are hard-wired to function in groups. But it's a double-edged sword -- it takes a lot of us to build a city, but as anyone who has ever witnessed a riot can attest, people's ability to act like idiots also multiplies in crowds. And this phenomenon can manifest itself in really weird and even fatal ways.
- By Pauli Poisuo
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- April 06, 2012
23 Modern Images as Misunderstood by Future Archeologists
Napoleon's height was exactly average for his time. His enemies made up the short thing to make him look silly, and it stuck because he looked sort of small in a couple of paintings. This made us wonder how the images we leave behind will be misremembered.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- April 06, 2012
The 5 Most Badass Tales of Wartime Survival
Every single person on this list puts Bear Grylls' tales of 'badassery' to shame
- By Chris J.
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- April 04, 2012
The 5 Most Clearly Cursed Expeditions of All Time
We tend to romanticize the age of exploration, like it was all grand exotic frontiers and tiny people tying sailors down with ropes. What we don't hear about so often is the scurvy and the starvation and the months of endless walking through landscapes full of awfulness. And that's too bad, because it actually makes their stories that much more bad
- By Eric Yosomono, Dustin Koski
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- March 31, 2012
5 Historic Artifacts You Won't Believe Still Work
Unless you're talking about diamonds, Twinkies or vampires, lasting forever usually isn't in the cards. Yet all over the world -- and universe -- there are machines, engineering feats and pieces of meat that never got the memo that we all have a use-by date.
- By Evan V. Symon
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- March 22, 2012
6 Historical Events That Are Way More Modern Than You Think
In which you'll discover that stuff you only thought existed in grainy old pictures continued until just a few years ago.
- By Robert Evans, Pauli Poisuo, Jacopo della Quercia , Xavier Jackson
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- March 12, 2012
6 Mind-Blowing Ways Poop Created the Modern World
We here at Cracked take pride in our research department's ability to make as many poop jokes in a 2,000-word article as is humanly possible. Especially when it's about poop.
- By Mohammed Shariff
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- March 11, 2012
5 Ridiculous Cold War Myths You Learned in History Class
During the Cold War there were good guys and bad guys. And it was all bullshit
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- March 05, 2012
The 5 Saddest Attempts to Take Over a Country
When we hear about a rebellion in Egypt or Libya or elsewhere, we instinctively want to root for the scrappy kids trying to fight back against The Man. Of course, a lot of coup attempts aren't all that inspirational. Some, in fact, border on slapstick comedy.
- By Evan V. Symon
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- March 04, 2012
The 5 Most Insane Rescue Missions That Actually Worked
We know how it is in movies but sometimes in real life, every once in a while, the good guys pull off a rescue that would seem grossly implausible by Hollywood standards.
- By Eric Yosomono
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- March 03, 2012
The 5 Most Unintentionally Creepy Gifts Given to Presidents
What do you get the man who has everything? The answer to that question is usually something lame like a 'poem' or a 'song' or 'a heartfelt macaroni portrait.' But sometimes it's something awesome like 'furniture made from super-predators' or 'all the cheese.'
- By Julien Blower
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- February 28, 2012
5 Ridiculous Archaeological Frauds (That Fooled the World)
As enchanted as we are with the search for Holy Grail-esque treasures, every so often a discovery comes along that excites us so much that we forget to ask whether it might be bullshit.
- By Josie Moore
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- February 26, 2012
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