40 Uncovered Terrestrial Truths That Mother Earth Better Start Owning Up To

Mother Earth, you got some ‘splainin’ to do!
40 Uncovered Terrestrial Truths That Mother Earth Better Start Owning Up To

It’s natural for parents to hide certain things from their kids. They don’t want the little scamps to grow up too quickly by having to wrestle with adult concepts. But that doesn’t stop the little ones from feeling left out once they’ve grown up. They think they’re mature enough to handle anything, and much like those maturing kids, we just made some earth-shattering discoveries about our lives and the world around us. 

The second Mother Earth gets home from work, we’ll be sitting her down and expecting some answers.

The Colossus of Rhodes

CRACKED THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES WAS DESTROYED BY AN EARTHQUAKE JUST 56 YEARS AFTER BEING BUILT. One of the ancient wonders of the world, the statue's ruins lay on the ground for over 800 years before they were finally melted down and sold as scrap metal.

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Secret Eye Doctors on a Mission

for Yellow rid or behrth In crulipen lapon fair as Only Is Due to the discovery and painstaking decoding of some ancient documents in 2012, what was thought to be a long-forgotten group of German ophthalmologists turned out to actually be a long-forgotten group of badass, system-smashing ophthalmologists. CRACKED

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Ancient Urns

Ukrainian soldiers uncovered 4th century urns while they were digging defense trenches. CRACKED.COM Soldiers with the Ukrainian 126th Territorial Defense found the tall, bot- tle-necked jars along with some ceramic shards. The amphorae have been dated to the fourth or fifth centu- ries C.E.

Just How Old the Earth Is

DINOSAURS RULED EARTH FOR 160 MILLION YEARS. HUMANS? A MEASLY 100,000 YEARS The full scale of Ancient Egypt is 30 centuries, which sounds impressive until you take another step backwards and see just how much a drop in a bucket all of humanity is compared to world history. CRACKED.COM

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Ancient Egypt

CONSTRUCTION WORKERS DIGGING A SEWER FOUND AN ANCIENT TEMPLE. CRAUA The workers were drilling a sewage drain in an Egyptian city when they unearthed a

Ancient Rome

CRACKEDco Ancient Romans were the first civilization to have birthday parties for non-religioust figures. They even had a special cake for it! There w

4,000-Year-Old Knife

In a historic move, Canadian authorities returned an Indigenous artifact. illustration The artifact is a 4,000-year-old knife found during a renovation, and its return acknowledges that Indigenous Peoples inhabited the land in question. CRACKED.COM

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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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Archeology

TELL US NOW CRACKED WORKING IN ARCHAEOLOGY Laura Е. says, It sounds cool when you're told you'll be unearthing the ruins of an ancient Jesuit mission in exotic Argentina and exploring its underground tunnels and catacombs. But after a while you realize your duties are clearing ivy, moving rocks, digging with the occasional thrill of discovery crushed by the realization that you've just carbon dated a used diaper...as it turns out the site was used as a landfill for decades after the ruins were covered over.

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Mass Sacrifice

CRACKED 12E EVEN MORE REVOLTING EVIDENCE OF MASS SACRIFICE. Researchers uncovered a tower made of 650 human skulls in Mexico City, which suggests that human sacrifice was more widespread in the Aztec Empire than previously thought - even involving women and children.

Forgotten Underground City

A TURKISH MAN REMODELING HIS HOME FOUND AN UNDERGROUND CITY. CRACKED.COM A man In the Cappadocia region knocked down a wall in his basement, only to discover a secret passageway to the ancient city of Derinkuyu The multi-level complex was used as protection during the Byzantine era, not as a man cave.

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The Chemicals in Urine

Peeing in the ocean is helping marine life! Research has found that a chemical found in people's urine reacts with the ocean water to produce ammonium

The Mayans

No one really knows what happened to the Mayan civilization. Except for the scientists at Arizona State and Columbia University. Due to rapid deforest

Heroic Schoolgirls

Two Indian School girls helped police uncover oSS-border human traffickers. Shivani Gond, 17, and Tejasweeta Pradhan, 18, spent days communicating wit

The Kailasa Temple

The Kailasa Temple at ELlora was created in the 8th century. Thrree renches were dug in the parent rook formation: isolating an enormous monolith whic

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

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