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40 Secrets We Extracted From the Earth Like Teeth From an Ailing Tiger

It wasn’t easy, but we got ‘em!

40 Secrets We Extracted From the Earth Like Teeth From an Ailing Tiger

March 12, 2025

Good thing we had our tranquilizer gun on us, because this salty ol’ Earth wouldn’t give these up without a fight. We only had a few minutes to get what we needed before it woke up, so we put our fastest fact finders to the test.

As always, they got in and out with minimal to moderately severe injuries. Here’s what they bled for…

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Insects

Researchers found the largest bug to ever live A fossil of a millipede that would have been 22 inch wide, 8.6 foot long, 110 pound was found in Northern England. The giant bug would have lived during the Carboniferous Period around 326 million years ago. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sweeteners

CRACKED ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERIES ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER In 1965, chemist James Schlatter stumbled upon aspartame when he licked his finger to pick up a piece of paper - after performing an experiment, and then not washing his hands - and noticed a sweet taste. — Source

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Dino Nest

A CHINESE BOY LOOKING FOR A NUTCRACKER FOUND A DINOSAUR NEST. CRACKED.COM Ten-year-old Zhang Yangzhe was wandering around near the Dong River trying to find something hard enough to crack open his walnut. Не stumbled upon a fossilized egg that was laid 66 million years ago by a Cretaceous-era dinosaur. Presumably someone intervened before he found something even harder to crack that open. — Source

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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.

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Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker CRACKED.COM Famous for her risqué performances, Josephine Baker put the privileges fame afforded her to the test while living in France during WWII. She housed resistance fighters in her home, collected information on German troop movements, and smuggled classified documents out of France by writing them on her sheet music with invisible ink. — Source

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World War I

Dead Germans 5 CRACKED.COM No one expected to find 21 Germans killed in WWI all together in this underground shelter. With them was a goat, and the less questions asked about that, the better. — Source: 15 Creepy Discoveries That People Stumbled Into

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Walmart

Hidden syringes CRACKED.COM A teenage girl put on pajamas from a Georgia Walmart and got stuck by a syringe. A woman got stuck too from a bra syringe, and other customers found syringes in pants and socks. — Source: 15 Creepy Discoveries That People Stumbled Into

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Insulation

A family in Auburn, PA was trying to insulate their home but upon tearing down the wall, dozens of animal carcasses spilled out. - The Resimated Yearty Operating Des $41 Includes mg&Tray The corpses were wrapped in newspapers from 1930s and 1940s. The family is certain that there are more hiding in their walls but have run out of money trying to get them out. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Creepy Discoveries That People Stumbled Into

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Yachtbound 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: 20 Creepy Discoveries That People Stumbled Into

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Bats

Calvin Oshowy bought a house in Whitehorse, Canada, and two months later discovered that the place was packed with hundreds of bats. The bats were in large numbers everywhere inside. Oshowy later disclosed that he was going to build a bat sanctuary outside the house since the bats were not welcomed inside his home. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Creepy Discoveries That People Stumbled Into

30

Hidden Nerve Agent

Charlie Rowley, from Wilstshire, England, couldn't believe his luck when he found a sealed box of what looked like expensive designer perfume, and gave it to his girlfriend, Dawn Sturgess. C Unfortunately the bottle contained a nerve agent of the same type that had been used recently to poison a Russian spy, and Sturgess died after applying it to her wrists. Rowley nearly succumbed, himself. GRAGKED.COM — Source: 20 Creepy Discoveries That People Stumbled Into

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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

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Shark Spies

Psychic spy sharks CRACKED.co .COM The Pentagon once attempted to turn sharks into remote control aquatic murder spies via neural implant. — Source: BBC

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A King’s Severed Head

Creepy Discoveries That People Stumbled Into - The head of King Henri IV of France turned up in some guy’s attic. Seems a tax collector bought it year — Source: The Guardian

26

Fossils

In 2011, miners in Alberta, Canada, found a huge nodosaur fossil. It was so undamaged, it could have been walking around a couple of weeks ago.

25

World War II Bombs

As city workers were digging a trench for a fiber optic cable at the Hollister Airport dog park, they found an active WWI practice bomb. DISARMED 9110

24

Archaeology

The Goonies can't save their homes because One-Eyed Willy's treasure will likely be confiscated by the government. Once the federal government finds

23

The Dead Sea Scrolls

One portion of the Dead Sea Scrolls was determined to be a treasure map. W snake island treasure smalt pay S lake of shadows dragon mountains black lake irate bay CRACKED.COM Found in 1952, the copper scroll was not a literary work like the others, in- stead it listed the locations of valuable treasure like silver and gold that have been buried or hidden.

22

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

21

Mount Rushmore

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

20

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

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X-Rays

ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERIES X-RAYS In 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen made an accidental discovery while doing an experiment with cathode rays in a Crookes tube - he found X-rays. Within a year, X-rays were already being used for diagnosis and treatment in the medical field. CRACKED — Source

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Hidden Chamber of Human Skills

CRACKED EINRI AN UNDERGROUND CHAMBER FULL OF HUMAN SKULLS Thousands of human skulls were discovered under an old church in Leuk, Switzerland. It's believed they were hidden during the Reformation to protect them from those who wanted to destroy anything that people venerated or worshiped. — Source

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DNA Editing

ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERIES DNA EDITING In 2014, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier stumbled upon CRISPR-Cas9, the most advanced DNA editing tool available, while researching how bacteria protect themselves from viruses. CRACKED — vchal/Shutterstock
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Mount Rushmore

There was going to be a secret chamber carved into Mount Rushmore. GRACKED.COM The sculptor, Gutzon Bor- glum, planned to make a secret room behind the hairline of Abraham Lin- coln leading to a chamber originally intended to hold some of America's most treasured documents. — Business Insider

15

2,000-Year-Old Battery

2000-year-old battery CRACKED.COM People thought this artifact was just a pot. It turned out to be a working battery, more than a millennium before batteries were supposedly invented. No one has any idea what it was for. — Source: 15 Creepy Discoveries That People Stumbled Into

14

Smallpox

Smallpox scabs GRACKED.COM A librarian opened a book from 1888 and fround an envelope inside with smallpox scabs. Scientists were excited that they might harbor the live virus. The librarian was less pleased. — Source: 15 Creepy Discoveries That People Stumbled Into

13

Pokemon Go

While playing Pokemon Go, instead of a Pikachu... Bass Pro Shop This woman found a dead body under a Wyoming bridge. COUNTY CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Creepy Discoveries That People Stumbled Into

12

Artifacts

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 — Source

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Mysterious Wheels

Creepy Discoveries That People Stumbled Into - These stone structures have popped up from Syria to Saudi Arabia, and no one knows what they are. Local — Source: NY Times

10

Snakes in a Wall

Creepy Discoveries That People Stumbled Into - Ben and Amber Sessions thought their new house was a bargain. But it was built on a snake lair, and sna — Source: CBS

9

Fossils

A KID PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK LITERALLY STUMBLED OVER A STEGOMASTODON SKULL. CGRA Nine-year-old Jude Sparks tripped over the 1.2-million-year-old fossil

8

Hidden City

A TURKISH MAN REMODELING HIS HOME FOUND AN UNDERGROUND CITY. CRA A man In the Cappadocia region knocked down a wall in his basement, only to discover

7

Charlotte Brontë

A WOMAN FOUND A LOCK OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S HAIR HIDDEN IN A RING. CRAUN Mupil 14:4 The woman says she found the ring in an attic in Wales, and that it

6

Treasure

AN AUSTRIAN MAN DIGGING IN THE DIRT FOUND A LITERAL TREASURE. CRAUN The man was trying to expand his backyard pond when he dug up more than 200 pieces

5

Soldiers Leaking Information

CRACKED COM SOLDIERS KEEP LEAKING SENSITIVE INFORMATION VIA THEIR PHONES. Nowadays, you don't need spies to know the location of secret military bases — From 5 Bizarre Problems Modern Militaries Are Facing.

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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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Gross Discoveries

60 year old calcified fetus found inside an elderly woman La Boca, Chile Doctors in Chile found a calcified fetus inside Estela Melendez's uterus when

2

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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Ben Franklin

Renovation of Benjamin Franklin's house in London has led to the discovery of human and animal skeletons in the basement. Franklin let his friend, Wil

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