28 Weird History Facts Revealing We've Always Lived In A Strange World

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mattstaff
May 2, 2019 11:00 AM EDT

You've always been living in a wild and strange world. These historical facts are a blatant reminder to that....

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    Sitting - Coca-Cola During Prohibition, people had to get creative with hiding alcohol. The woman pictured here is showing off one of the more creative methods Deink of hiding booze: the cane-flask. पेमसम
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    Bull and terrier - December 21st, 1945: General Patton's dog Willie, on the day of Patton's death. LT GEN G..SPATTON JR T 0 CO1 ESS STE T 3OSTO MASS APO INC w.AR 50 136
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    Photography - ROY POST POSTOMETER 1939 The Roy created as a lie detector-esque machine that was designed to gauge the emo- tional response of a kiss, to see if each person was actually enjoying it or not. Post Postometer was
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    Overhead power line - Playgrounds in the early 1900s were FAR more unsafe than they are today. This thing is practically begging for a lawsuit.
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    August 22, 1969: The last photo of all four Beatles while they were still together as a band.
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    Adaptation - This is Maria Spelterini, one of the biggest badasses in stunt history. Not only was she the only woman to cross Niagra falls on a tightrope walk, as pictured here, she did it with peach baskets strapped to her feet. She also crossed it blindfolded. Twice.
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    People - 98 Pictured: Twelve Soviet Union soldiers in 1945 with 775 confirmed kills between them.
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    Text - 1972: During the Apollo 16 expedition of the lunar surface, astronaut Charles Duke left a laminated photograph of himself and his family on the moon. It's still there, right now.
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    Arm - A "portable" TV prototype developed (and abandoned) in 1967.
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    Team - 1914: A crew of preteens work as at a bowling alley before the automated mecahnical system was introduced. "pin boys"
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    Text - 1970: Vladimir Putin dances with his classmate during a party, giving off strong Draco Malfoy vibes.
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    Clown - This was the original Ronald McDonald from 1963. Sweet dreams!
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    Text - THE MEMORY OF 1959: Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the foot of iS ENSHRINED FOREVER the Linclon Memorial.
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    People - December 5th, 1933, the night Prohibition ended.
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    Adaptation - The hell of the Serra Pelada gold mine in Brazil, circa 1980. As the largest open-air gold mine in the world, it attracted the most desperate and violent miners, hoping for their share of fortune.
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    Photograph - 1887: A group of drunken university students in Leiden, The Netherlands, who just happened to bump into famed portrait photographer Israel David Kiek.
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    Photography - 1950: Children being treated in a multi-person iron lung before the invention of the Polio vaccine.
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    Illustration - 1916: "Murderous Mary," a circus elephant who killed her trainer, shamefully being hung from an industrial crane in Kingsport, Tennessee. SPARKS DROS, Eun AT ERWIN, TENN, SEPT3, I9
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    Photograph - 1984: A rare photo capturing North Korean leader Kim Il-sung's massive tumor on the back of his neck. During its growth, all official photos were taken from the left, in order to conceal his health problems from the public.
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    Transport - 1933 The makers of London's doubledecker MIRROR demonstration proving they wouldn't tip over that easily. buses had to run a MIRROR ০ ০ s GENERAL JJ 4349
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    Basketball moves - 1966: An incredible overhead shot after Muhammad Ali knocked out Cleveland Williams at the Astrodome in Houston.
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    Male - French wrestler Maurice Tillet, the visual inspiration for Shrek, pictured here in 1945 with supermodel Dorian Leigh.
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    Facial expression - Please enjoy this photo of a woman caught mid-sneeze in the year 1900.
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    Motor vehicle - 1921: A police officer transports a convict in a "mobile booking cage."
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    Font - ICE COLD WHISKY WATER SADA MEA LGHT EVVA 1960: The "Evva" whiskey vending machine debuts at the Second Auto- matic Vending Exhibition in London
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    Tree - 1891: This is Sylvain Dornon, the man who successfully walked all the way from Paris to Moscow entirely on stilts. It only took him 58 days
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    1910: This girl is equipped with perhaps the most-advanced pair of artificial legs of the first half of the 20th century.
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    Text - The Mona Lisa being returned to the Louvre after World War II.
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