25 Weird Blind Spots In 'Well-Known' History
There’s a weird, probably creepy, unknown detail in every historic moment.
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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. Well, Cracked readers can. In fact, they crave them. So here's your fix of weird, disturbing details about well-known historical events.
![When the Titanic sank in 1912 706 people lived, 1517 people died, STNIC and 3 dogs survived. CRACKED.COM They were a Pekingese and two Pomeranians.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/8/670448.jpg?v=2)
![For years after the Battle Of Waterloo, companies would dig up the bones of fallen soldiers, grind them up, and sell them as fertilizer. Bones are ric](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/4/8/670348.jpg?v=2)
![Dusko Popov, a Serbian spy, brought J. Edgar Hoover proof that an attack on Pearl Harbor would happen, four months before it did. Hoover decided to ig](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/4/3/670343.jpg?v=2)
![The ticker tape machines in use during the 1929 Stock Market Crash were unable to keep up with trading. They ran hours behind, struggling to report 14](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/3/9/670339.jpg?v=2)
![At the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, where the English army, mostly archers, devastated a vastly superior force of French knights, many of the victorious](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/3/6/670336.jpg?v=2)
![At Japan's surrender during WW2 Emperor Hirohito offered to convert the entire nation to Christianity Gen. MacArthur turned down the offer stating It](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/2/7/670327.jpg?v=2)
![At the Battle of Brandywine in 1777, British sharpshooter Major Patrick Ferguson refused to fire at a Continental Army general, believing that to kill](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/2/6/670326.jpg?v=2)
![In 1941, the Pentagon was built in preparation for World War II and the reason why it got its shape was because it was meant to be built somewhere els](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/2/4/670324.jpg?v=2)
![Mary Todd Lincoln was not allowed to stay in the room as her husband took his last breath. Why? Edward Stanton, Secretary of War, was furious that Mrs](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/2/2/670322.jpg?v=2)
![Before his death was made public, sama bin Laden's identity needed to be verified by DNA testing as well as measuring his height. : ce 85 B 7 69 a bon](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/0/4/670304.jpg?v=2)
![When people think of Joan of Arc being burned at the stake it's usually for the crime of being a witch. In actuality she was burned alive for wearing](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/2/1/670321.jpg?v=2)
![The Apollo Spacecraft lacked functioning toilets In lieu of a loo, astronauts used baggies that sealed to their... areas And yes, the lack of gravity](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/1/9/670319.jpg?v=2)
![IN WORLD WAR l, THE UNITED STATES EXPERIMENTED WITH BAT BOMBS. Conceived by a dentist friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, the weaponized bats were to be rele](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/2/5/670325.jpg?v=2)
![This photograph is one of the very few authentic images of the Omaha Beach invasion, and it was only possible because Robert Capa, the photographer, d](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/0/9/670309.jpg?v=2)
![Nixon's Watergate operation was blown by a piece of duct tape. Nixon's man used duct tape on the locks in the Watergate building to prevent doors from](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/1/0/670310.jpg?v=2)
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![The Hindenburg Disaster was almost The Adolf Hitler Disaster. CRACKED.COM Joseph Goebbels, who was in charge of Nazi propaganda, requested the Fuhrer'](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/1/3/670313.jpg?v=2)
![A BOSTON TEA PARTY PROTESTER CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD. (Sort of.) Fellow participants hid John Crane's seemingly dead body under some wood shavings in](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/1/4/670314.jpg?v=2)
![Andrew Jackson's parrot had to be expelled from his owner's funeral... Because it wouldn't stop swearing. cRac](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/0/7/670307.jpg?v=2)
![An American woman talked Hitler out of committing suicide in 1923. Adolf Hitler CRAGA was arrested in 1923 shortly after his first coup, the Beer Hall](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/1/6/670316.jpg?v=2)
![The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was a gathering of the finest patriots of the fledgeling United States... CRACKEDCON And four prisoners from the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/4/4/670344.jpg?v=2)
![When Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded for plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I... ...she was hiding her Skye Terrier under her dress, which refu](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/0/1/670301.jpg?v=2)
![The afterparty for George Washington's inauguration in New York had such a huge CRACKEDCOMT turnout that his carriage could not get through the street](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/0/2/670302.jpg?v=2)
![The German government sold pieces of the Berlin Wall. After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the commercial use of complete segments was approved in ord](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/2/9/670329.jpg?v=2)
![The original call signs for Apollo 11 were changed from Snowcone and Haystack to Columbia and Eagle. Which was probably a good thing. The Haystack ha](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/0/3/670303.jpg?v=2)