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August 01, 2024

Well, we finally found the combination to the vault of secrets. It took a while until we nailed it, but we had a great look-out guy who politely directed a security guard away from us. The stakes were high, but we just had to know what some people clearly don’t want us to know.

Now that we’re in, we’d love for you to join us. Oh, and the combo was the vault keeper’s wife’s birthday. Classic.

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GRACKED.COM The creamy middle of a Twinkie is not cream at all but mostly Crisco, which is vegetable shortening. — Source

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Almost 80% of food commercials aired on Saturday morning children shows are for junk food. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Some Of The Largest Companies Have Used Brain Scans To Find That Our Brains React To Sugar & Cocaine In Very Similar Ways CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRAGKED.COM Applebee's Oriental Chicken Salad has 1,310 calories, 93 grams of fat and 1,470 milligrams of sodium. Eating this salad is worse than eating a medium size Big Mac meal with a Coke. (1,130 calories, 58g fat, 1,245mg sodium) — Source

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SUBWAY'S advertised nutritional values do NOT include the condiments, dressing, or cheese you undoubtedly requested along with your sub. Sub W eat These the amount standard of toppings calories, can fat, easily sodium, double and sugar or triple in your healthy sandwich. CRACKED.COM www.subway.com/nutrition/nutritionlist.aspx — Source

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John Carpenter has a brief cameo in his movie VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED. HAROLD'S PSI He's the man talking on the payphone at the gas station. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MIT intentionally irradiated children (with Quaker's help). In the 1940s, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology decided to study how the body absorbs nutrients by feeding disabled and abandoned children radioactive oatmeal. The experiment was government-sanctioned and sponsored by Quaker Oats, who even supplied the tainted cereal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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White slaves helped end slavery. The American North wasn't much less racist than the South, and many weren't sold on the whole emancipation thing. To win them over, abolitionists started highlighting white slaves on popular magazines (who were enslaved because they had some black ancestor). Suddenly, owning people seemed inhumane. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There used to be a typo on the north wall of the Lincoln Memorial. The wall that was supposedly engraved with Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address misspelled FUTURE as EUTURE. The bottom part of the E has since been filled in. mai THAN T EFLY MENT THE PUBLIC THE W TRUST REASON- AND ENCOURAGING TO WHIC IGH HOPE FOR THE ANTIC IN REGARD TO IT IS VENTURED FUTURE NO MIGH CCASION CORRESPONDING TO FLICT AN g ARS AGO ALL THOUGHTS WERE DAM DIRECTED TO AN IMPENDING SAM ALL DREADED IT-ALL SOUGHT EAC IT WHILE THE INAUGURAL AD- DA CRACKED.COM BEING DELIVERED — Source

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GRACKED.COM and the OF adidas IN PASSAND STOP that BOGLAH The wide crack on the Liberty Bell was actually the repair job. In the early 1840s, a narrow crack appeared on the bell, so the workers decided to widen it in order to prevent it from spreading. It didn't work, though, as the crack spread even further, permanently damaging the bell in the process. — Source

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GRACKED.COM One of the grotesques on the Washington National Cathedral is Darth Vader's helmet. — Source

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CRACKED.CON In 1814, British troops set fire to the White House. You can still see burn marks. — Source

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Under the Lincoln Memorial, there's a cavern with dirty graffiti. The Memorial is kept up by support beams, which are in a Moria-esque underground hall. And the construction workers must have been really bored, because they left it full of graffiti that's a mix of porn doodles and dirty words. One just says boobies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a subway station under Grand Central Station. It led directly into the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, so the well-to-do wouldn't have to mingle with the masses. It was used from the '30s to the '60s, when it was abandoned (except for a 1965 party by Andy Warhol), and it was eventually totally closed off. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a creepy secret chamber inside Mt. Rushmore. Its sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, wanted Mt. Rushmore to have a Hall of Records, where historic American documents would be stored. When he died in 1941, it was unfinished. In 1998, the government put a sealed titanium vault with copies of important documents in there. So he kinda got his wish. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A luxury apartment sits at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Gustave Eiffel had it built for himself when the tower went up, and kept it secret for a long time. He'd get offered crazy sums for a night in it, but always said no. It didn't open to the public until 2015, 90 years after he died. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED GIOVANNI DI STEFANO WAS THE (FAKE) LAWYER TO THE (EVIL) STARS. Не presented himself as a lawyer to the likes of Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milošević, earning himself the nickname the Devil's Advocate before it was revealed that he had zero legal credentials in addition to scruples. — Source

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CRACKED THE FOX SISTERS HELD PHONY SEANCES. They swindled untold numbers of people during the 19th-century Spiritualism movement and were even authenticated by skeptics, none of whom could figure out that they were just cracking their joints to make otherworldly sounds. — Source

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CRACKED MARK PEDLEY CREATED A FAKE COUNTRY. The Dominion of Melchizedek pretty much only existed to perpetuate massive bank fraud. Even the former president of Portugal's brother was taken in by a loan scam based in the country, which was located in several different areas over the years. — Source

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SHADY TIES JOHN KERRY AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN 2004's Democratic Presidential nominee and current Presidential Envoy for Climate, Kerry was found in Epstein's private phone book and flight logs. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED SHADY TIES THE BEACH BOYS so VENTURA CAL 47623 AND CHARLES MANSON 22 APR 1968 Manson supplied Dennis Wilson with girls and drugs, and was a frequent guest in his home. One of Manson's disciples even babysat Mike Love's children. — Source

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CRACKED SHADY TIES MICHELLE PFEIFFER AND THE BREATHARIANS The group claims to get all their nourishment from the sun. They were very controlling, Pfeiffer said. I had to pay for all the time I was there, so it was financially draining. When researching cults for a film, she realized she was in one, and left. — Source

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SHADY TIES HARVEY MILK AND JIM JONES When Jones (who conducted the mass-suicide of 918 people) was getting bad publicity, Milk wrote a letter to President Jimmy Carter, praising the cult leader and the work he was doing. They left that out of the Milk biopic. CRACKED — Source

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UNTIL 2001, LAUNDERING OF COMPANY-ISSUED UNDERWEAR WAS so SUB-PAR, DISNEY PARK EMPLOYEES WERE GIVEN STINKY, STAINED UNDIES-AS WELL AS PUBIC LICE AND SCABIES. IT TOOK THE TEAMSTERS UNION TWO MONTHS TO CONVINCE DISNEY TO ALLOW EMPLOYEES TO TAKE UNDERWEAR HOME TO WASH THEMSELVES. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a derelict water park, River Country, inside Disney's resort in Florida. Seph Lawless had to scale a twenty feet high, blacked-out fence to take these photos, after which he was banned from Disney World for life. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Walt Disney World has a severe alligator infestation. The number of alligators caught within the premises of the resort increases every year, mainly because it is located at the center of water ways and canals commonly inhabited by alligators. CRACKED.COM — Source

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