40 Historical Facts We Hope Don’t Repeat Themselves (Or Screw It, Let ’Em Repeat Themselves, Who Cares Anymore)

Bring back art in the Olympics, who cares?
40 Historical Facts We Hope Don’t Repeat Themselves (Or Screw It, Let ’Em Repeat Themselves, Who Cares Anymore)

First of all: The Olympics used to hold artistic contests. And only one guy ever won an art and a sport at the same time.

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Mikhail Youzhny

A tennis pro slices his own forehead open Russian tennis player Mikhail Youzhny was frustrated with his performance in a 2008 match, and decided to give himself a hard reset by bashing his own head repeatedly with his racket. And it worked! He won the match.

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Chris Simon

Chris Simon 65 GAMES TOTAL I CRACKED.COM This guy was the real-life Happy Gilmore. He was once suspended for taking a baseball swing at Ryan Hollweg's face, and another time for stomping Jarkko Ruutu's leg with his skate.

Malice at the Palace

The Malice at the Palace CRACKED co In 2004, a late-game fight between players on the Pistons and the Pacers turned into a full-team brawl. That's rare enough in the NBA, but then a fan hucked a beer at Ron Artest, and the carnage spilled into the bleachers.

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The Penalty Box

A fan falls into the penalty box CRACKED.COM In 2001, Flyers fans were pestering notorious ass-kicker Tie Domi in the penalty box, when the glass broke and a dude fell right in. Domi did what Domi does, and said in a post-game interview It's nice to see the fans get

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Scottie Pippen

Scottie Pippen hucks a chair P CRACKED COM Pippen was given two consecutive technical fouls for arguing with the refs, and was ejected from the game. On his way out, he grabbed a chair and haphazardly lobbed it, nearly hitting some kids.

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Rage Against the Machine

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE HUNG AMERICAN FLAGS UPSIDE DOWN ON SNL. STERRILLA CRACKED They did this before performing, but the flags were quickly taken down, and they were asked to leave before performing a 2nd song. This was in 1996, and things have gotten a lot more political on the show since then.

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Young Frankenstein

STEVEN TYLER WROTE THE SONG WALK THIS WAY WHEN НЕ HEARD MARTY FELDMAN USE THE PHRASE IN YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. Not unironically, it was Run-DMC's cover of the song that brought Aerosmith back from the dead in the 1980s. CRACKED.COM 9100 97

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Video Killed the Radio Star

MTV had a very fitting first music video. At 12:01a.m. on August 1st, 1981, Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles became the very first music video on MTV. The video was released in 1979, so the band definitely saw the changing of the guard and capitalized. CRACKED

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World War II

1950s- Last veterans die, aged over 100 World War II 1939-1945 PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT IN THE CIVL WAR WERE STILL ALIVE AT THE TIME OF WORLD WAR Il. Civil W

Kleenex

Kleenex tissues were originally invented not for nose blowing, but as filters for gas masks during the First World War. After the war, KimberlyClar Co

Wrigley’s Chewing Gum

War gum, anyone? Wrigley's chewing gum was taken Off the civilian market due to wartime rationing during World War II. SHOES RATIONING BOARD WAR BOOK

Batman

BATMAN BEGAN IN THE SAME YEAR AS WORLD WAR l. 1939

Ancient Orgies

When you think of ancient Romans, think of orgies. you That's a rumor started by Christians. Ancient Romans were actually super prudish. Early Christi

Ancient Egyptian Currency

Radish CRACKED COM Radishes were used to pay workers in ancient Egypt.

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