25 Moments in History When Super Serious People Got Super Silly

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25 Moments in History When Super Serious People Got Super Silly
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Today we’ve proven that no one can be 100 percent crotchety 100 percent of the time. That was nice to know. We guessed that there’d be at least one salty old dog who never cracked a smile, but they — and the folks around them — somehow got chuckling.

We consider this a huge win for silliness!

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was the original Instagram troll. 1 Не loved to write random crude comments, and other jokes directed at his Bolshevik comrades, on nude drawings. Like the one above that says Why are you so thin, Mikhail Ivanovich? Do some work. Onanism is not work. Try Marxism! (Onanism means masturbation.) CRACKED.COM

Thomas Edison

Before pulling much bigger pranks, like the classic I'll steal your life's work without credit gag, Edison started with much smaller ones, such as minor electrocution. Early in his career, Edison enjoyed wiring a water bucket to a battery, so every time one of his co-workers went to get a drink they'd get zapped. CRACKED.COM

Lord Byron

Lord Byron was one of the greatest British poets. Не was a leading figure in the Romantic movement that took place during the first half of the 19th century. He's regarded as one of the greatest British poets, and remains widely read and influential. THE CRAZY: Не collected pubes. Byron had numerous affairs, and collected a lock of pubic hair from each of his lovers. Не kept them on file at his publishing house, where they remained for more than 100 years after he died. CRACKED.COM Robert Schnakenberg 2008 Secret Lives of Great Authors.

Herbert Hoover

President Hoover briefly had a possum as a pet at the White House. Some toymakers tried and failed to market Billy the Possum toys. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock had a thing for inviting people he considered arrogant and pompous to dinner parties in order to drive them psycho. Не would do things like line their seats with whoopee cushions, serve courses in the wrong order, and dye foods bizarre colors. He'd top it all off by serving super-strong booze to get them completely shitfaced. CRACKED.COM

Thomas Urquhart

SAT 114 Thomas Urquhart 1611-1660 DIED OF LAUGHTER Urquhart passed away in exile in the Netherlands in 1660. Allegedly, he died laughing after hearing about Charles II being restored to the throne. CRACKED

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill is regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century. As Prime Minister, he rallied the British people during the second World War, and led his country from the brink of defeat to THE victory. CRAZY: Не liked to parade around his office naked. Both Franklin D. Roosevelt and his son Elliot had run-ins with naked Churchill. In Elliot's case, Churchill had specifically requested to meet with him. Не walked into Churchill's office to find him standing completely naked with a cigar in his mouth, dictating a letter to his male secretary. CRACKED GOM http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v09/v09p261_Irving.html

William Randolph Hearst

While attending Harvard, William Randolph Hearst would throw crazy political parties filled with wagons of beer, fireworks, and full brass bands. After getting placed on academic probation, he responded by sending chamber pots to each of his teachers with their photographs and names attached to the bottoms. Не was expelled. CRACKED.COM

Leonardo Da Vinci

Probably out of boredom of being great at, like, everything, Da Vinci decided to make his own dragon. Не took a lizard and transformed it into a dragon by giving it horns, a beard, and even wings made out of the scales of other lizards. He'd keep the dragon in a box which he would bring out whenever he need to scare the hell out of his friends. CRACKED.COM

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most influential philosophers of all time. Rousseau was the most popular philosopher during the period of the French Revolution, and he was interred as a national hero in the Panthéon in Paris. THE CRAZY: According to his memoirs, he loved being spanked. In fact, he used to pull his pants down in the road, and chase women around ass-first to try to get them to spank him. CRACKED.COM http://www. gutenberg org/ebooks/3913

Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe was a Danish astronomer in the 1500s. He's been described as the first competent mind in modern astronomy to feel ardently the passion for exact empirical facts. THE CRAZY: Не kept a dwarf under his dinner table. The little person was named Jepp, and Brahe believed Jepp had psychic powers. Brahe paid Jepp to dress as a jester and sit under the table during meals. http://io9. com/5696469/the-crazy-life-and-crazier CRACKED COM death-of-tycho-brahe-historys-strangest-astronomer

Frisbee Creator Ed Headrick

Frisbee Creator Ed Headrick WORLD -KARA WORLD Master CLASS CHAMPIONS FLYING DISC 165 G. CRACKED.COM Per his request, Headrick's ashes were molded into frisbees and given to his family and friends.

Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte CRACKED.COM In his very detailed will, he requested that his hair be preserved and made into several bracelets with a little gold clasp for his friends and family.

Salvador Dalí

CRACKED ERE NTE-MONTPARK PARNASSE 24 RUE DE LA GAITE N 1934 ous LES SOIRS ndredi 15 au Jeudi 21 heures MATINEE Dimanche 17 juln. a 16h 48 LA pour les REPRESENTATIONS du CEL S D' RAND-RI GP la de UROQUEBOL SALVADOR DALÍ AND SIGMUND FREUD In 1938, Salvador Dalí and Sigmund Freud got together in London and Dalí drew a picture of Freud. Freud commented that Dalí looked like a fanatic. Dalí liked that.

Ray Kroc and Walt Disney

CRACKED RAY KROC AND WALT DISNEY McD's founder Ray Kroc and Walt Disney were both in the Red Cross Ambulance Corps during WWI. Kroc thought Walt, nicknamed Diz, was a bit of an oddball: Whenever we went into town to chase girls, he stayed in camp drawing pictures.

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams was the 6th President. Не was a celebrated diplomat, one of the authors of the Monroe Doctrine, and a vocal opponent of slavery. THE CRAZY: Не also believed in Mole People. Adams greenlit an expedition to travel to the center of the earth and establish diplomatic relations with the mole people living there. The trip never happened, because Adams left office before it could be planned. CRACKED.COM Adams, John Q Memoirs of John Quincy Adams

The Emporer Who Played Make-Believe

Meet the Zhengde Emperor of China. Не reigned during the early 16th century. His era name means Right virtue or Rectification of virtue. Our Make People The Different THE CRAZY: Не liked to play make-believe. Не had a fake city block built on the imperial grounds so he could pretend to be a shopkeeper, and he liked to pretend he was a general and go on raiding parties. CRACKED COM David M Robinson 2001 Bandits Eunuchs, and the Son of Heaven

The Bear Penis on A Coat of Arms

A war almost started in 1579 over the omission of a bear penis on a coat of arms. D CRACKED.COM The bear in the coat of arms of Appenzell, Swit- zerland, is represented with a visible penis, but a calendar printer in Saint Gallen left it out by acci- dent, enraging the North- east canton.

Ubaldo Soddu

ITALIAN COMMANDER IGNORES WWII FOR MUSIC IS Gen. Soddu Out as Chief 1940 n Of Italy's Albanian Army it W CRACKED.COM Italian General Ubaldo Soddu had a bigger / appetite for pasta than war; for his entire 4 week career as General, Soddu would retire to his tent early to compose music for imaginary movies while a World War raged on outside. The defeats under General Soddu led Mussolini to call on Hitler for support, delaying the German invasion of Russia, which ultimately ended with a victory for the Allies.

Thomas Jefferson

CRACKED THOMAS JEFFERSON CALLED JOHN ADAMS AN UGLY HERMAPHRODITE. Jefferson hired journalist James Callender to write nasties about Adams, so he went all out and wrote that Adams was a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.

Beethoven

Beethoven used exactly 60 beans in his cup of coffee. This was so important to him, he would often count every bean when he made coffee. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Antonio López de Santa Anna LEGENDARY CRACKED.COM Mexico's 8th president needed his leg amputated when the French shot a cannon at him. Не gave the leg a full state funeral (then protesters dug it up again).

The Viking Hastein

The Viking Hastein GET HELP CRACKED COM Hastein entered a Roman city by arriving on a stretcher with his men asking for aid. The Romans let them through the gates, then the Vikings sacked the city.

Queen Elizabeth

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is really, really into the Nintendo Wii. HOME When Kate Middleton bought it as a gift for Prince William, Elizabeth liked it so much that she asked to play herself, and she did great at Wii Bowling. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Source: WIRED

Richard B. Mellon

Richard B. Mellon 1933 Mellon used the occasion of his deathbed to win an epic, 7-decade game of tag. His last words were reportedly last tag as he tapped his brother Andrew, who, humiliatingly, died it' 4 years later.

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