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In the early 20th century, Pond's medicated tampons were soaked in opium, belladonna, and Hyoscyamus in order to relieve menstrual pain. This example is from the Pharmacy Museum in New Orleans.

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Bill Murray recreating the Caddyshack no-look putt.

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Jon from 1997, clearly one of the good guys.

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What historians believe to be Cleopatra’s handwriting, a single word granting tax exemption for an associate of Mark Antony's who would command his army during the Battle of Actium. The word she signed at the bottom in greek “ginesthoi” in English: “Make it so / Make it happen

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When American soldiers arrived in the United Kingdom in 1942, the War Department issued a booklet titled 'Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain'. This is the last page from that booklet.

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The last of the castrato singers, Alessandro Moreschi photographed in 1900. From him we have the only recordings of a voice type obtained through castration before a boy soprano reaches puberty. I've linked to what he sounded like in the comments.

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In the 1983 movie Staying Alive, Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) makes an uncredited cameo appearance as a man on the street who bumps into Tony Manero (John Travolta)

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An explanation of how numbers were named through angles.

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The grave of an American pilot buried by Imperial Japanese troops. The sign reads Sleeping here, a brave air-hero who lost youth and happiness for his Mother land. July 25 - Nippon Army. Kiska, Alaska, 25 August 1943.

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The 1970s demonstrating a love for Cocaine in these various ads for coke merch.

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On the anniversary of his death, spend a little time with Hunter S. Thompson and his daily routine.

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This is the whole life of a 1341-year-old tree and the moments of history that it has experienced.

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From a 1909 Dictionary of Victorian slang. I say we bring back 'got the morbs' into common parlance. (When relevant)

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This 1971 ad is outrageously creepy.

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Everyday is a school day.

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In 1938, Nazis demanded to know if J. R. R. Tolkien was Jewish. He responded with a high-class burn. Leave it to Tolkien to need 270 words to say Go Fuck Yourself.

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Sir Patrick Stewart describes his first experience of a Hamburger in America. (You’ll read this in his voice)

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The only advent calendar you’ll ever need.

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A perfume bottle consisting of eight glass bottles as orange segments, set in painted ceramic holder.The scents included were: Chypre, Amber, Heliotrope, Rose, Jessamine, Mayflower, Mimosa, Muguet, Les Lilas, Violette. 1925

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A marginal note written by a disgruntled scribe, England, 1528

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I do like the Dutch saying.

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Home Coming- Jimmy Stewart and his dad outside the family hardware store, Indiana, Pa., 1945.

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A somewhat poignant front cover of Circus magazine, February 1970. 11 now down out of 20.

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A tactical trick used by soldiers during the Mexican Revolution, 1913.

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Draw a cat using only straight lines. Design in theory and practice. 1910. By Ernest Allen Batchelder

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The Hybrid Air Vehicles Airlander 10 hybrid airship crafted by the Hybrid Air Vehicles. It features a helium airship structure along with supplementary wing and tail components. It utilizes a combination of aerostatic and aerodynamic lift principles for flight and is driven by four ducted propellers

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An aerial photo of Manhattan in 1931.

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MR. John Fitzpatrick. A British Columbia pioneer who has a head of hair without a peer in the world having grown to a length of almost three feet, in less than two years. Born in Sligo, Ireland, in 1825, he emigrated to Canada in 1854 (more info in comments)

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Skull of a 14-year-old girl, named “Jane” by archaeologists, showing butchery marks, evidence that the starving settlers of Jamestown Colony practiced cannibalism in the Winter of 1609. They are also believed to have smashed her skull open to get to her brain.

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Lawson's vaginal washer. ...Everything that needs to be said about Victorian-era understanding of female genitalia is right there in this spinning brass machine with a cartoonish crank on the side. Yes, those blades would whirl around when you cranked it...To clean the vagina....

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Every year on the anniversary of his death, the National Trust leave the bedroom light on in John Lennon’s childhood home all night. The sweetest thing.

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Bournville village cottage's answer as to where to put the bath. In the kitchen, a wonderful space saving idea.

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The Roman dodecahedron, a mysterious ancient artifact, features 12 pentagonal faces with central holes of varying sizes. Crafted from bronze or copper, adorned with knobs, their purpose remains unknown. Discovered across Europe, dating from the 2nd to the 4th centuries AD.

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A Cough drop salesman on the streets of London, 1877

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The pedestal-like chopine of the late 15th to the early 17th centuries transformed the upper-class European woman into a towering figure. Especially popular in Venice, the shoes were so exceptionally high - sometimes up to 54 cm - Chopines were completely hidden under skirts.

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Advice on marriage written in a pamphlet by a suffragette in 1918. It is currently on display at the Pontypridd Museum in Wales

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Corviale, Rome, one of the longest single residential building, 1 kilometer in length, housing around 8000 people. (1970s). The building was created to be a self-sufficient experiment of social housing with stores, services, medical clinics, etc. It was designed to be a world of its own.

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An optical illusion that was once used in paintings has now been created using AI. If you squint or hold your phone at arms length you should be able to see it.

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On this day in 1959 Big Bopper J.P Richardson, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly died. This is the last known photo taken of them, photographed the night before they boarded the plane that would crash into a field in Iowa. Richardson was 28, Valens was 17, Holly was 22.

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On this day in in 1924, Adolf Hitler was released from prison. The New York Times ran withHitler Tamed By Prison...

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The changing styles of John Travolta throughout the years.

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A 3,000-year-old Egyptian statue of an unknown woman. New Kingdom, made from limestone. Currently housed in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. It should be in Hee-Heegypt still!

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Steve McQueen at a really crap looking Paramount Studios Gym in May 1963

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Before CPR there was... blowing tobacco smoke up the bum. One of the recommended procedures for resuscitating persons apparently dead from drowning, from a 1787 booklet by the Humane Society.

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From Cornell Aeronautical Laboratories of Buffalo, New York. MAN-AMPLIFIERS...

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There’s so much wrong going on here I don’t know where to begin...

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