25 Weird Blind Spots In 'Well-Known' History

There’s a weird, probably creepy, unknown detail in every historic moment.
25 Weird Blind Spots In 'Well-Known' History

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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.

The Titanic

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.

The Civil War

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

Pearl Harbor

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

Ticker Tape Machines

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

The Battle of Agincourt

At the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, where the English army, mostly archers, devastated a vastly superior force of French knights, many of the victorious
At Japan's surrender during WW2 Emperor Hirohito offered to convert the entire nation to Christianity Gen. MacArthur turned down the offer stating It
At the Battle of Brandywine in 1777, British sharpshooter Major Patrick Ferguson refused to fire at a Continental Army general, believing that to kill

The Pentagon

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

Mary Todd Lincoln

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
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

Joan of Arc

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
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

Bat Bombs

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

Photography

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

Watergate

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
25 Weird Blind Spots In 'Well-Known' History

The Hindenburg

The Hindenburg Disaster was almost The Adolf Hitler Disaster. CRACKED.COM Joseph Goebbels, who was in charge of Nazi propaganda, requested the Fuhrer'
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

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson's parrot had to be expelled from his owner's funeral... Because it wouldn't stop swearing. cRac
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
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was a gathering of the finest patriots of the fledgeling United States... CRACKEDCON And four prisoners from the
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
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
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
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
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