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20 Facts That Change How You Picture Historical Events

History books have a way of leaving out the most bizarre details about famous goings-on, presumably because school-age minds can't handle them. But there's nothing your brain can't handle now. So let's put on our Indiana Jones hats and dive into the past, and remind ourselves of some truly crazypants parts of history that usually get left out of the conversation.

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Women's Suffrage tre CRACKED.cO The women's suffrage movement wasn't just housewives in frocks picketing. Many within the movement were militant and c

For details, read: 5 Iconic Resistance Movements You're Picturing Exactly Wrong

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The Manhattan Project One would the Manhattan assume Project had rigorous safety standards, what with the atomic bombs and all. One would be wrong. Wh

For details, read 5 Serious Historical Events That Became Goofy Farces

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Lewis And Clark Lewis, Clark, and their adventuring party tried to have sex with every local woman they encountered, with respectable rate of a succes

For details, read 6 Iconic Moments In History You Never Knew Were Utter Messes

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The Civil War CRACKED COM During the extremely bloody Battle of the Wilderness, one Union and one Confederate soldier ended up hiding together in the

For details, read 5 Serious Historical Events That Became Goofy Farces

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The Crash of '89 UNTON AMERICAN BANK UNION BANK PAID ON 4 OTHRIETACCOUNTS AMERICAN CRACKEDCON Ruined investors jumped from en masse the windows of the

For details, read 6 Ridiculous History Myths (You Probably Think Are True)

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Ancient RomE CRACKED CON In ancient Rome, laundromats pretty much ran on urine. The practice continued even after the invention of soap, as many Europ

For details, read 5 Insane Facts From History Nobody Taught You In School

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THE Library of Alexandria In 642 CE, the Library of Alexandria burned tO the ground. But that's only half of the story. What really doomed the place w

For details, read 6 Iconic Moments In History You Never Knew Were Utter Messes

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Bin Laden's Death CRACKED COM After Navy Seals raided Osama bin Laden's compound and killed him, they needed to authenticate the body. The first point

For details, read 6 Iconic Moments In History You Never Knew Were Utter Messes

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World War I CRAGKEDCO When Russia exited World War I, they scheduled a peace conference, and the Bolsheviks made a point of bringing along a soldier,

For details, read 5 Serious Historical Events That Became Goofy Farces

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Thanksgiving CRACKED.cO COM Thanksgiving celebrate today as we it was established in 1941, coincidentally only one year after America's favorite turke

For details, read 6 Supposedly Ancient Traditions (That Totally Aren't)

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Storming the Bastille CRACKED.COM By the time the Bastille fell in 1789, the oppressive wing had been out of commission for years, the event involve s

For details, read: 5 Iconic Resistance Movements You're Picturing Exactly Wrong

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The Challenger Disaster CRACKED. COM It's commonly thought that the crew perished immediately. Unfortunately, there's evidence to suggest otherwise. E

For details, read 6 Disasters With Details So Awful, History Left Them Out

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The Titanic sinking uRMT88 CRACREDCOM After the Titanic sank, Congress forced ships to carry enough lifeboats for everyone. They meant well, but overl

For details, read 6 Disasters With Details So Awful, History Left Them Out

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THe American Revolution CRACKEDCO All mainstream accounts of the American Reyolution dramatically downplay France's contributions. The truth is, the 1

For details, read 5 Myths About the Revolutionary War Everyone Believes

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Bra Burning CRACKEDo COM The story goes that at late '60s protests, feminists defiantly removed and set fire to their bras. But this never happened. W

For details, read 6 Ridiculous History Myths (You Probably Think Are True)

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World War II Ice cream rations were more coveted than cigarettes and fresh socks. Look at the Battle of the Coral Sea from 1942. While engaging the Ja

For details, read 5 Insane Facts From History Nobody Taught You In School

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The Space Race The Soviet Union was not the first country to reach space, and neither was the U.S. On October 3, 1942, almost exactly 15 years before

For details, read 5 Groundbreaking Firsts That Your History Books Lied About

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The Dark Ages PO- MErCA England East Wends Welsh Erisis Saxonia S LAVON wi iundemwic Poles Wessex Tburnais Au Cologne Chapelle Main Serbs SoissonsP Cz

For details, read 5 Ridiculous Myths You Probably Believe About the Dark Ages

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Civil Rights VOTING In FREEDI PUBLIC M RIGHTS SCHOOLS NOW! CRACKEDcO Schizophrenia diagnoses in angry black men skyrocketed. Moreover, of a specific

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Pearl Harbor CRACKED COM When Marines examined the wreckage after the attack on Pearl Harbor, they heard banging noises from inside the USS West Virgi

For details, read 6 Disasters With Details So Awful, History Left Them Out

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The American Genocide CRACKED CON You've surely heard about how tribes in America were devastated by European settlers. But that's not the main reason

For details, read 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

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