Cracked Archive - History
6 Modern Armies Who Seriously Tried To Win Wars Using Magic
Plenty of modern armies have dipped their toes into the decidedly unscientific field of pseudoscience so they could just magic away their enemies.
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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244 5 Historical Plot Twists That Seem Too Crazy To Be Real
History is full of tales that would be considered examples of hack writing, if the author wasn't "reality."
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- By Stephan Roget
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7 Real Ads (That Were Clearly Made By Insane Nihilists)
Sometimes ads not only make zero sense, they're downright degrading.
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- By Nimby Smith
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6 Unbelievable Tales Of Nazi Defectors You Never Knew About
Support for the Nazis within Germany was far from universal, and at least a few would end up fighting like crazy to wreck the Nazi war machine from the inside.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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7 Times History Went Straight Slapstick
History is sometimes written by the winners and other times written by coked-out sitcom writers desperate to finish a scene.
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- By Xavier Jackson, Alexander Pan, Jordan Breeding, Mike Turner
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America's Tomatoes Taste Like Garbage (Because Of Racism)
Odds are that you haven't had any true tomato goodness unless you grew some yourself. Why? The answer is about 20 percent science and 80 percent racism.
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- By Carlos Yu
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4 Nightmare Apocalypses Humanity Forgot Were Possible
This article will validate all of your seemingly irrational fears about Mother Nature's wrath.
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- By Luke John Smith
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The Monopoly Guy Never Had A Monocle: 4 Lies We All Believe
Our collective memory of pop culture is all a sham.
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- By Stephan Roget
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7 WTF Acts Of Madness Committed By History's Worst Dictators
They say that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but they rarely mention that it also gives you some really freaking bizarre hobbies.
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- By Kelly Stone
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5 Coincidences That Made The Modern World
The world as you know it only exists because of a series of staggering, unintuitive, or downright stupid coincidences.
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- By Kian Lastman
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8 Unbelievably WTF Photos Of Famous Places In The Past
A lot of famous landmarks have a certain period in their past where they looked more like a cannibal nightclub than something you'd put on a postcard.
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- By Justin Crockett
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6 Familiar Jobs (That Once Looked Crazy As Hell)
Even in the worst employment circumstances, however, few of us have had to deal with the monstrous outfits our great-grandparents wore to work.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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6 WTF Challenges Soldiers Face (That You Won’t Believe)
Today's modern soldiers have to contend with things you never did when playing with G.I. Joes in your bedroom.
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- By Michael Hossey
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7 Concepts We Totally Take For Granted, Like 'White People'
Possibly the weirdest thing humans do is come up with something and then immediately act like it's always been around.
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- By Nathan Kamal, Jordan Breeding
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5 Amazing Relics (Discovered In The Dumbest Way Possible)
These lucky so-and-so's not only stumbled onto amazing gifts from the universe itself but they found them while sleepwalking through their everyday lives.
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- By Chris Radomile
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