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

January 21, 2025

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.

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Nazi Documents

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

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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. — Source

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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

37

Dino Tracks

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. — Source

36

The Pee Icicle

In 1984, a giant pee-icicle formed on the outside of the space shuttle Discovery. VN Discover CRACKED.COM Astronauts had to break it off using a robotic arm and shut down the toilet for the remainder of the mission. — Source

35

A Giant Penguin

The fossil remains of a 6 foot 8 inch tall penguin were found in Antarctica. GRAGKED.COM Palaeeudyptes klekowskii, or the Colossus Penguin, weighed over 250 Ibs and its skeleton was 37 million years old - the most com- plete fossil ever uncovered from the Antarctic. — Source

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A Fake Tuna Spy

40 Top-Secret Bits of Trivia That Aren’t for the Faint of Heart — Source: 16 Ridiculous Gadgets Used By IRL James Bonds

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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.

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CIA Slip-ups

CRACKED.COM Baffling things done by the CIA Not being able to pick a damn codeword In 2011, Hezbollah found out that CIA spy- meetings would happen under the codeword pizza. Wait, but wouldn't that give away where they meet? Indeed, Hezbollah soon figured out they met at a Lebanese Pizza Hut, and proceeded with a devastating bust that led to captured U.S. agents and ruined CIA intelligence-gathering in Lebanon for a while. — Source

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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.

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Sunken Ferry

CRACKED With the Mississippi River at record lows, investigators are unearthing some hidden mysteries. One of these is a ferry that sank in the river sometime during the late 1800s to early 1900s and has recently emerged in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. — Source

29

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 — Source

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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

27

Disney’s Abandoned Island

Disney World is hiding an abandoned island. Disney used it as a wildlife observatory, but shut it down in 1999 when they opened Animal Kingdom and moved all the animals there. Today, it's an overgrown jungle of empty animal cages, ruled by vultures (the actual kind, not the cartoon Disney kind). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hidden Bombs

CRACKED A WWII bomb was revealed due to an extreme drought in Italy. The device, which Italian military officials said contained 240kg (530lb) of explosive, was discovered near the Lombardy village of Borgo Virgilio in July and 3,000 nearby residents were evacuated so that bomb disposal experts could safely carry out a controlled explosion on Sunday. — Source

25

Enrico Fermi

ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERIES NUCLEAR FISSION In 1934, Enrico Fermi made a chance discovery that changed the course of history: the slow neutron effect. This discovery was key to the development of nuclear chain reactions in 1942, and eventually to the creation of nuclear weapons. CRACKED — Source

24

Hidden Mummy

Two Filipino fishermen returning home for the day noticed a drifting partially submerged yacht. CRACKED COM They would then discover that its captain was still on board, as a mummy. How long he had been dead was impossible to determine, since conditions at sea could have mummified him within weeks. — Source

23

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.

22

Shark Week

CRACKED THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL SHARK WEEK DOCUMENTARY In 2013, the people who made Shark Week didn't tell the truth to scientist David Davis. They wouldn't answer his questions about the show and they changed his interview to make it look like he was looking for a made-up shark. — Gizmodo / BroBible

21

Secret Rooms

Baffling Corpse Discoveries 20 YEARS LATER, IN A SECRET ROOM In late 1973, a 73-year-old man disappeared without a trace. By 1991, his house had gone through several owners. Exterminators were called over a termite infestation in the crawlspace, and while checking it out they found a very small secret room. There, the man's skeleton was found with a self-inflicted shot to the head. Got questions? Get in line. CRACKED.COM — BPTU/Shutterstock
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20

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.

19

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. — BBC

18

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. — Source

17

Pig-Discovered Cocaine

$22,000 worth of cocaine was found and destroyed by feral hogs. CRACKED COM Police dismantled a smug- gling operation in Tuscany after placing a wiretap on members of a gang, and overheard a person com- plaining about the damage caused by the hogs in the forest the drugs were hidden. — Newsweek

16

This Fake Dragonfly

The Insectothopter looks like a dragonfly. During the primitive times of the '70s, the CIA designed a dragonfly drone that carried a listening device. It was propelled by a tiny gas engine in its thorax and had a frickin' laser attached to its head. BEAM SWITCHING CIRCUITRY FIG. 1 Sadly, it only had a INTAKE VALVE 200-meter range and 60 FIG. Z seconds' worth of juice. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Ridiculous Gadgets Used By IRL James Bonds

15

William Kampiles

In 1977, William Kampiles stole a spy satellite manual from the CIA which he sold to the Russians for.$3000. CRACKED.COM Не then told the CIA who he worked for and what he had done in the hopes that they would hire him as a double agent. They didn't and he was sentenced to 40 years in prison. — Chicago Tribune

14

The CIA Starbucks

The CIA headquarters has its own, weirdly covert, BE Starbucks. GRACKED.COM Baristas don't write names on the cups. Its receipts say Store Number 1 instead of Starbucks, and its workers need an escort to leave their work posts. 27% — Washington Post

13

Air America

The American passenger and cargo airline 'Air America' was secretly operated by the CIA. AIR AMERICA AIR AMERICA NICHEA CRACKED.COM It supplied and sup- ported covert opera- tions in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, including provid- ing support for drug smuggling in Laos. — LA Times

12

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

11

Truth Serums

THERE'S NO TRUTH IN TRUTH SERUMS Any individual that can hold out in normal interrogation can hold out in a drugged- state, according to the CIA. If you trust them to tell us. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Myths Perpetuated By Movies

10

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

9

Operation Acoustic Kitty

Operation Acoustic Kitty CRACKED COM The CIA surgically implanated tiny microphones into the ears of cats, and tried to have them spy on Soviet embassies. The cats were incredibly hard to train, and one of the first cat spies was reportedly hit by a car immediately. — Source: The Guardian

8

The Hidden City of Derinkuyu

Creepy Discoveries That People Stumbled Into - A Turkish man knocked down a wall in his home and uncovered a tunnel to a massive city called Derinkuyu — Source: The Independent

7

The CIA

During the Cold War, CIA agents communicated based on how their shoelaces were tied. GRAGKED.COM During the Cold War, the CIA hired stage magician John Mulholland to teach their covert operatives sleight-of-hand tricks and secret signals they could use in the field. — Source

6

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,

5

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

4

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

3

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

2

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 — Today

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Sex Dolls as Spies

CRACKED.COM SEX DOLLS WERE USED AS ESPIONAGE TOOLS. The JIB, or jack-in-a-box, was regularly used by CIA operatives in Moscow in the '80s. Like in — From 5 Historical Facts That Were Way Too Stupid For The Movies.

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