History-facts you didn't know:

[DetlefK]

http://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-1061-weird-things-nobody-knows-about-events-everybody-knows-about/

[left-of-center2012]

1. Isn't "Cracked" similar to "Mad" magazine?

How factual is their info?

[DetlefK]

2. They actually take it pretty seriously.

Readers can submit such graphics and articles and Cracked demands quotes and sources for everything a reader submits.

[forgotmylogin]

5. Cracked is no longer in print, but I believe it's the same group.

They mostly do humor, but much of their humor is based on real life. Satire similar to the Onion but not so poker-faced.

[DetlefK]

9. Their history is pretty rocky.

First as a magazine.
Then reborn as a comedy-website.
Then all the talented comedy-people got fired in a bid to save money.
Then reborn as a half-comedic educational website.

[Farmer-Rick]

3. I did research on that 1st one...because I just couldn't believe it.

Turns out J. Edgar Hoover was a worse scum sucking f*ck head than I thought possible. Too bad FDR didn't fire him right then.

[lark]

6. He is one of the worst people in American history.

Until drumpf, no American has matched his evil on a nationwide scale.

[whistler162]

10. It is some what factual.

Remember the Japanese had a far better source than the Germans when it came to the layout of Pearl Harbor and its environment. Namely members of the consulate and other Japanese nationals who could easily move around Honolulu. The questionnaire has been a source of theories since it became know. Of course how Popov was going to get to Hawaii, move around, and gather the information when foreigners of European nationality weren't as common as those for Asian nationality is a matter of guessing.

While Hoover was a scumbag especially what he did to the Dasch and Burger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pastorius

[mainstreetonce]

4. Interesting stuff

Thanks

[MBS]

7. Great stuff, thanks. n/t

[sarge43]

8. Re Caesar, Brutus and Servilla

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Caesar was born in 100BC, Brutus, 85BC. Physically possible that Caesar could have fathered a child; however, in the society of that time, damn near socially impossible. First, Jules would have been still considered a child. Further, at that time Servilla was a patrician, married to a patrician. If she were to jump the reservation and risk everything, she wouldn't have picked a boy. What little is known about her, airhead or fool is never mentioned.

The earliest mention of the affair is around 64BC. That's more like it. Servilla was by then a widow, a rich independent widow. Jules had survived Sulla's reign of terror and started to climb the greasy pole. Not surprising he took Brutus under his wing and became his mentor and patron. SOP in Roman society and perhaps the Roman son he'd never have.