40 Bits of Historical Trivia to Scream From the Back of Your Horse As You Sprint From Charlestown to Lexington in the Middle of the Night

Wow, we sure had to invent a lot of stuff because of guns and bullets, huh?
40 Bits of Historical Trivia to Scream From the Back of Your Horse As You Sprint From Charlestown to Lexington in the Middle of the Night

The first-ever special effect in a movie happened in New Jersey, but everyone fuhgedds aboudit.

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The Women

Classic Hollywood Movies Original VS. Remake 1939 The Women This comedy-drama with a huge, all-female cast, received great reviews, and is still highly regarded. Its forgotten remake was critically panned, but we want yet another remake, just for the usual crowd to whine about movies being woke now. 2008 CRACKED.COM

The First PG-13 Rating

The first PG-13 rating. 1984 CRACKEDGO COM Even though it clocked in at 134 acts of violence per hour (Guinness counted), Red Dawn was the first film
The first GPS device. 1964 CRACKEDCON Not surprisingly, James Bond is the first movie character to use a tracking device and fire up his archaic Garmi

Early Films

The first copyrighted motion picture. 1894 CRACKED COM W.K. Dickson copyrighted Fred Ott's Sneeze, a 5-second film of Thomas Edison's assistant snorti

TV Firsts

19 Television Firsts (That We Never Really Recovered From)

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19 Television Firsts (That We Never Really Recovered From)
The first item bought online was a CD of Sting's Ten Summoner's Tales, in August 1994. ESSE 000 VISA 122 3172 042 VISA STING The buyer used his Visa
The first ever post on Reddit was a link to a story about the Downing Street memo. reddit REDDIT.COM comments other discussions (3) This is an archive

Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle felt writing Sherlock Holmes was dull hack work. He saw historical fiction as his real work, and Sherlock Holmes as stuff that pa
Is a historical scientist a scientist from history or someone who studies historical science? BRACKETING PARADOX CRACKED COM Nuclear physicist, hist
Ocakli Ada Castle ORIGINAL RESTORATION Sile, Turkey- ca. 100 The town that planned this restoration stands by their decision to turn a historical trea

Robert Hooke discovered elements of gravitational theory before Newton.

Sir Isaac Newton erased his rival Robert Hooke from history. CRACKED.COM Despite pioneering the ex- perimental method and discovering many ele- ments of gravitational the- ory first, Hooke never got his due. Newton also lived 25 years longer, allowing him to edit history.

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A “fireproof” building was the deadliest single-building fire in U.S. history.

The Iroquois Theater in Chicago was billed as Absolutely Fireproof in advertisements when it opened. EVERY en NIGHT - son Then BLUEBEARD Room It lasted 37 days be- fore being destroyed in what is still the deadliest single-build- ing fire in U.S. history, leaving 602 dead and 250 injured. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Nothing to do - start a war

Just 8% of recorded human history is considered peaceful. Of the 3400 years of recorded history, only 268 are considered peaceful. At least 108 million people were killed in wars in the twentieth century.

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The eyes of the world are upon you.

CRACKED.COM 97% OF HUMAN HISTORY HAS BEEN LOST. Humans appeared 200,000 years ago. Writing is about 6,000 years old. This means that only 3% of our species' history has been recorded.

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Damnnnn, you spicy little jackasses.

CRACKED VULGARITY HISTORY The first audible curse words in film The 1929 Paramount film Glorifying the American Girl has the first curse words in cinema history. They say damn six times, and jackass twice.

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The eyes of the world are upon you.

Remember Paul HISTORY THE Revere's midnight ride? He galloped through the colonies shouting, The British are coming! The British are coming! He wa

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