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On today's episode of Cracked, Jack and Michael invite some fellow Cracked contributors to dissect their favorite real world origin stories. Topics discussed include everything from the QWERTY keyboard, Wikipedia and ketchup to planned parenthood, the concept of summer and the Holocaust.