40 Top-Secret Bits of Trivia That Aren’t for the Faint of Heart

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40 Top-Secret Bits of Trivia That Aren’t for the Faint of Heart

Sitting down? Okay, good. Well, you could stand if you like (as long as you’ve been taking your daily dose of baby aspirin for your heart). We don’t really know how better to warn you, so by continuing to read this list of wildly revealing worldly truths, just know that we cannot be held liable for any spikes in your heart rate or injuries from fainting. 

Oh, and we won’t be held responsible for any embarrassment caused by holding the back of your hand to your forehead and letting out a high-pitched gasp while fainting either. That’s on you, big dawg.

Nazi Documents

During a renovation, a Hungarian couple accidentally uncovered 6300 Nazi documents behind a wall in their apartment. usbia Adatszolgaltatasi M E. read

The School of Athens

CRACKED Raphael's The School of Athens is hella dense, featuring 52 characters. The setting is also quite something: it's modeled on the architectural plans for St. Peter's Basilica, which wouldn't be finished for another century - like a renaissance CGI walkthrough.

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Spies on Record

Spies used records to hide maps and cash In a tactic British Intelligence called FG. Z Operation Smash Hit, maps and foreign money would be hidden i

Dinosaur Valley State Park

CRACKED The river at Dinosaur Valley State Park dried up due to a severe drought, uncovering new tracks that had been buried under layers of sediment. The park is located southwest of Dallas and the majority of the tracks date back 113 million years.

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Satan’s Portrait

CRACKED Giotto's 13th century frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi had a hidden secret for centuries - nobody could get up high enough to spot a side-on portrait of Satan hidden in the clouds.

Norman Rockwell

A Norman Rockwell painting was discovered in a secret compartment inside the walls of a cartoonist's house. CRACKED.COM Don Trachte had forged several paintings he owned to stop his ex-wife from getting them in a divorce settlement and had hidden the originals. It'd been hidden there for 35 years.

Hidden in the Flowers

The cover of the Rolling Stones album Their Satanic Majesties Request, has the faces of their rivals, The Beatles, hidden in the flowers. Ringo Paul George John GRACKED.COM

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Communist Spy Ring

Cliff Stoll spotted a 75$ discrepancy in the books at Lawrence Berkeley Labs. Markus Hess Cliff Stoll OWCE R TT O a I Q a When he found it, he uncover

SS Treasure

CRACKED THE SS DEATH'S HEAD RING TREASURE There's a huge stash of money hidden in a cave near Wewelsburg Castle in Germany that was put there by the SS at the end of WWII. It's worth tens of millions of dollars.

Caravaggio’s Secret

CRACKED In his 1595 portrait of Bacchus, the god of wine, Caravaggio snuck in a minute self-portrait as a reflection in a carafe of wine. It took centuries for the miniature cameo to be spotted.

Nazi Checkpoints

A Tour de France winner during WWII used his fame to smuggle documents through Nazi checkpoints. CRACKED.COM Under the guise of train- ing, Gino Bartali smug- gled counterfeit docu- ments hidden inside his bi- cycle in Italy. These docu- ments allowed as many as 800 Jews escape persecu- tion by the Nazis.

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Prehistoric Stones

CRACKED Due to a severe drought, water levels in reservoirs across Spain are at an all time low. This has revealed the long-hidden ruins of 11th century churches and prehistoric stone circles, which have become popular tourist destinations.

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Benjamin Franklin

Renovation of Benjamin Franklin's house in London has led to the discovery of human and animal skeletons in the basement. bank - adidas - - - - ساد - Franklin let his friend, William Hewson, use the home as a secret anatomy school, when the only way to obtain bodies for research was to buy them from merchants who illicitly dug up corpses from recent burials. GRAGKED.COM

Nazi Relics

A 2017 Argentine police raid on an art collector's home found a secret room with Nazi relics. - F The room had toys, statues, medical devices and more, all probably owned by top Nazi party members. CRACKED.COM

Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel didn't just revolutionize fashion she was also a Nazi spy. Declassified documents identify her as a secret agent working for the Germans,

Dead Rats

Actual dead rats are used to deliver spy stuff. The CIA has confirmed that since World War FIG. 1 lI, the body cavities of dead rats have been used as

Unknown Human Remains

A family in Modesto, California was trying to bury their pet in their backyard when they accidentally uncovered the remains of a human. The identity o

World War II Spies

American Virginia Hall was a British spy during World War II. CRACKED COM She created a network of 90 secret agents called Heckler in southern Franc

Hidden Lobsters

what's the deal with TRADER JOE'S? Can you find the hidden LOBSTER? GRACKED.COM Nearly all Trader Joe's locations have a lobster or other stuffed creature hiding on the shelves for kids (and their adults) to find. Spot it, then grab a crew member to receive a treat for digging up the hidden treasure. S

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