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Cracked offers\\xa0Five Ridiculous Myths You Probably Believe About The Dark Ages; number one is \\u201cThe Dark Ages Were A Real Thing\\u201d:

The Dark Ages were never a thing. The entire concept is complete and utter horseshit cobbled together by a deluded writer. The term \\u201cDark Ages\\u201d was first used in the 14th century by Petrarch, an Italian poet with a penchant for Roman nostalgia. Petrarch used it to describe, well, every single thing that had happened since the fall of Rome. He didn\\u2019t rain dark judgment over hundreds of years of human achievement because of historical evidence of any kind, by the way; his entire argument was based on the general feeling that life sucked absolute weasel scrotum ever since Rome went belly-up.

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