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29 Berserk Everyday Activities (Yep, The Past Was Nuts)

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November 13, 2013

We here at Cracked like to dredge up the past to remind you that no matter how hard you wish you lived in a previous time period, you're simply mistaken (or crazy). We asked our readers to provide the most horrifying things our ancestors used to do to entertain themselves. Winner got $100 ...

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27 Entry by Mattcee

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24 Entry by Nirgal

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20 Entry by CopperPoppy

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19 Entry by PunchBeam

18th century liturgical and operatic music marked the apex in popularity of the high notes able to be sung by a woman combined with the greater lung p

18 Entry by luvthecubs

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17 Entry by Kittylouise

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9 Entry by MisterCanoehead

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8 Entry by Mattcee

In Elizabethan England. the Queen's love of sugar left her teeth black and rotten. As a result a fashion started where the aristocracy tried to make t

7 Entry by Kittylouise

Lady Gaga's shoes? Nope. Chopines were created in Turkey in the 1400's. Worn by hoth men and women as an OVer shoe meant to keep their shoes out of th

6 Entry by Paka

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CRACKEDcO Remember this scene in the 2010 Wolfman movie? That isn't torture, it's therapy! This was a nineteenth century treatment called hydrotherapy

4 Entry by KMFDM4L

FERRET LEGGING The origin of ferret legging is disputed. The sport seems to have become popular among coal miners in Yorkshire, England, in the 1970s.

3 Entry by The_brokenlink

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CRACKED COM Martin Drolling's 1815 painting, L'interieur d'une cuisine. is one of many pieces involving extensive use of a pigment called Mummy Brown

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