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These are the very first employees of Coca Cola, pictured here in Atlanta in 1898:
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This was how big the cake for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip’s wedding was:
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In 1962, three men escaped Alcatraz Island prison after fooling guards with papier-mâché decoy heads that looked like this:
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Speaking of which, this is what the menu for Alcatraz prison looked like on March 13th, 1956:
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And, finally, here’s what a typical Alcatraz cell looked like:
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This is one of the last pictures ever taken of President William McKinley, shot moments before he was assassinated in Buffalo, NY in 1901:
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Two places on Earth had a 200-degree temperature difference last month:
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This is what the entrance exam to MIT looked like in 1869:
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This is a picture of the first Ferris Wheel ever, designed specifically for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair:
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Here’s what the view looked like from it:
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This picture of a hairless chimpanzee really demonstrates just how absolutely yoked chimps are:
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Here’s one more look at a jacked chimpanzee, because you deserve it:
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That little fellah there is Charlie, one of the smallest horses to ever live:
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This is astronaut Dave Scott popping out of the command module for a brief spacewalk in 1969:
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This is perhaps the first photo of people drinking beer ever taken, snapped in the 1840s:
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This photo from a Seattle lumberyard in 1919 show just how high stacks of lumber could go in those days:
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In 2010, 30 intact champagne bottles were found inside a ship that had sunk in the Baltic Sea more than two centuries before, around 1780:
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The champagne inside was still good and apparently “had a very sweet taste” and a “strong tobacco smell”:
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This picture, taken in 1947 inside the “tube room” at a Chicago department store, shows the incredibly complicated and intricate series of tubes that would transport money and other papers between departments:
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This is what the “back” of the Hoover Dam looked like prior to being flooded with water:
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And this is what that same side looks like today:
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This shows the difference between two legs after an ankle break prevents weight-bearing on one:
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Some people have visible rings around their eyes. They are apparently called contraction furrows, and are totally normal:
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This is what a mobile home looked like in the 1930s:
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And, finally, during World War II, the US military handed out a guide for American soldiers serving in Britain. This is a small excerpt of what it said: