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For one brief, strange moment, WOODEN bathing suits were a thing:
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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 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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I know you’ve seen a bicycle built for two… but how about a bicycle built for FOUR:
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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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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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During World War II, some soldiers would utilize their gas masks while cutting onions:
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That little fellah there is Charlie, one of the smallest horses to ever live:
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Here’s a closer look:
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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 is perhaps the first photo of people drinking beer ever taken, snapped in the 1840s:
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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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These are the very first employees of Coca Cola, pictured here in Atlanta in 1898:
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This shows the difference between two legs after an ankle break prevents weight-bearing on one:
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Here’s a totally non-unhinged invention: a GUN was designed to take a picture each time its trigger was pulled:
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This is what a mobile home looked like in the 1930s:
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This is what the border between Mexico and the United States looks like at the ocean between Tijuana and San Diego:
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Here’s another unique border. This is the border between Canada and France on Saint Pierre and Miquelon near Newfoundland:
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While campaigning for president in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest but survived because the bullet was slowed by a steel glasses case and a folded speech in his jacket pocket. This is the shirt he was wearing that day:
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In Finland the largest size of mayonaise is called “AMERICAN SIZE:”
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This is one of only two remaining pirate Jolly Roger flags in existence:
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Here’s what some dinosaur footprints look 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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This is Paul Karason, whose skin turned permanently blue after years of consuming colloidal silver:
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Here he is next to a non-blue person:
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According to astronomers, this is the average color of the universe:
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Yellow watermelons are a thing that exists:
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Way, way back when it was originally created, Lysol advertised one of its uses as being for ‘feminine hygiene:”
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Here’s a bunch of soldiers practicing their swimming moves while on land:
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And here’s a bunch of kids doing the same:
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Here’s another strange way to learn how to swim. Each one of these kids is connected by rope to this “merry-go-round” contraption:
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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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Some people have visible rings around their eyes. They are apparently called contraction furrows, and are totally normal:
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Some old lawnmowers had built in cigarette lighters:
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Some menus include the estimated cooking time for each dish along with the price:
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This is a loaf of sourdough bread that was miraculously preserved after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE:
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Sanddollars, my friend… sanddollars can be very tiny:
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Some elevators in Japan have tiny little toilets in the corner:
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This is what the start of a river looks like:
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This is the amount of contact a train wheel typically makes with the track:
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This is what a cross-section of a Boeing 747 looks like:
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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: