The golden age of the internet is past, it’s all downhill from here3yr ⋅ nikola_144 ⋅ r/NonPoliticalTwitter
When Jackie Coogan turned 18 he found out all his money ($68 million) had been spent by his mother who argued “No promises were ever made to give Jackie anything. Every dollar a kid earns before he is 21 belongs to his parents.” Coogan’s Bill was passed to protect child actors in 19393yr ⋅ nikola_144 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Today Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter celebrate 75 years of marriage. A real life fairy tale!3yr ⋅ nikola_144 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
What a falcon 9 looks like after it has launched and landed 8 times3yr ⋅ nikola_144 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
1943: A freshly painted US M4 Sherman tank in a light tunnel, which is designed to cut the drying time of the paint from 24 hours to 4 minutes3yr ⋅ nikola_144 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
On this day, Sony introduced the Walkman, the first portable audio cassette player. And though they thought it would sell 5000 unit a month, it sold more than 50,000 in the first two months3yr ⋅ nikola_144 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
On this day in the year 1898, Joshua Slocum from Nova Scotia became the first person to complete a solo circumnavigation of the Earth on his boat The Spray3yr ⋅ nikola_144 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A simple size comparison image of an ostrich egg and a chicken egg.3yr ⋅ nikola_144 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
1910, men and sled dogs on the Terra Nova, bound for Antarctica. Nobody who went on the final polar approach survived3yr ⋅ nikola_144 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
In Switzerland you can use the same number plate set for two different cars and only pay insurance once. But you can only deive one car at a time and you have to swap number plates. This is called “Wechselnummer” (changing plates)3yr ⋅ nikola_144 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
