Cracked Archive - History

5 World Changing Decisions Made For Ridiculous Reasons
Apparently some of the most important changes in pop culture and world history have turned on some guy shrugging and saying, 'screw it.'
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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6 Acts of Propaganda That Backfired Hilariously
When fooling the world is your business, there isn't much room for mistakes. Or so you'd think.
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- By Claire G.
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The 6 Worst Jobs Ever (Were Done by Children)
Back in the day, people had only one reason to produce offspring: To force them to do the abhorrently awful work no grown person would dare to.
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- By Shelby Fero
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6 Things From History Everyone Pictures Incorrectly: Classic
Unsurprisingly, our image of the past is largely made up of Hollywood inventions, propaganda and uneducated guesses.
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- By Alexander L. Hoffman
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8 Historic Symbols That Mean The Opposite of What You Think
Wwhat do you do if the real world doesn't provide you with something people can rally around? Just go ahead an embelish the truth.
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- By Philip Moon
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5 Awful Afflictions That Changed The World (For The Better)
Thanks, Incest!
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- By Robert Evans, Philip Moon
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5 True War Stories That Put Every Action Movie to Shame
Here are five groups of soldiers that prove that no matter how implausible the plot, some military unit, somewhere, has topped it.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 5 Most Badass Prison Escapes in the History of War
Prison escape stories are badass on their own. When you toss war into the mix, the stories seemingly become to insane to be true,
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- By Paul K Pickett
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7 Lost Bodies of Work (That Would Have Changed Everything)
Here are a few of the most influential works of art, literature and science in histor ...
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Lesser Known (Completely Ridiculous) American Civil Wars
Long before and after the Civil War, American states have been pointing guns at each other and screaming ridiculous threats. Just consider...
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- By Philip Moon
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The 5 Most Half Assed Apologies for Historic Crimes
We're almost positive that Ted Kaczynski's apology was more sincere than these.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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6 People You've Never Heard of Who Probably Saved Your Life
Hollywood, and to a certain extent history, likes to glorify those who were great a taking lives. Here are those that saved millions. And one that's friggin' Wolverine.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 7 Most Disastrous Typos Of All Time
We've all made typos. Fortunately, most of ours don't wind up changing world history. Not everyone is so lucky.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Supposedly Ancient Traditions (That Totally Aren't)
Patriotism, sex and money. People will use any reason to create a tradition. Especially the sex part.
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- By Robert Evans, CRACKED Staff
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The 6 Most Important Things Humanity Just Plain Forgot
Turns out some of the most amazing things ever discovered wound up lost or forgotten for centuries, for utterly ridiculous reasons.
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- By David Graham
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