There’s a memorial sitting on the Moon for every astronaut who died in the pursuit of space exploration, including Russian Cosmonauts3yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Turkish garbage collectors open a library for all of the books citizens discard in their trash4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Betty Robinson got into a plane crash and was mistakenly pronounced dead. She spent 7 weeks in a coma and it took her 2 years to learn to walk again. 5 years later, she won a gold medal in the Olympic Games 19363yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
French woman pouring tea for a British soldier fighting in Normandy 19444yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
In 1969, when African American citizens were forbidden to swim in a pool with white people, Mr. Rogers invited African American Officer Clemmons to join him cooling his feet in a pool on his show to make a statement4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/pics
Jonas Salk didn’t patent his 1955 polio vaccine so that it would be affordable for all people. As a result, he lost an estimated 7 billion dollars. Saying in an interview: “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Shoe shine boys listen to Civil War veteran tell his war stories, 1920s4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
NYC workers removing trees that were hollowed out and used for water pipes in the early 19th century and replacing with modern piping4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
🔥 The Amorphopallus Titanium; one of the largest plants in the world, but only blooms once every forty years for four days4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
Father passes out when he meets his triplets for the first time 19464yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
This vintage photo of a bride that refuses to let a bomb (WWII) that almost destroyed her home ruin her happiness on her special day 19404yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/MadeMeSmile
This kitten smiling bigger than the little girl for a photo, 19554yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
The cast, including James Earl Jones, on the set of ‘The Sandlot’ - 19934yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Winston Churchill’s doctors note that allows him unlimited alcohol in prohibition America 19324yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Mary Smith, one of the first African American cheerleaders for the Dallas Cowboys 19704yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Terry Fox, after losing one of his legs to cancer; embarked on an east to west coast marathon in Canada to raise money for cancer research. He made it 143 days into his run before he lost his battle with cancer at the age of 22 - 19804yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Princess Diana dozing off while watching a museum performance in 19814yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
John Cleese taking a break on the set of Monty Python and the Holy Grail 19753yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
That Time Prince Harry Let the Paparazzi Know How Him & His Mother Feel About Them 19864yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
LAPD officers dressed up as women to go undercover to catch a purse-snatcher 19604yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
In 1995, U.K. based American artist, William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. He drew self portraits for 5 more years until he could barely recognize his own face.4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Jenny Joseph, the woman that modeled for Columbia Pictures to create their iconic logo 1992 [640 x 480]5yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
This protestors jacket during the early years of the AIDS pandemic 19844yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Kate McKinnon (SNL) Dressed Up as Agent Scully for Halloween Early 1990's5yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Polaroids during makeup testing of the cast of 'Clueless' taken by makeup artist Alan Friedman 1990s4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Sgt. Leonard Matlovich - bravery. discharged for coming out to his commanding officer as gay after 12 exemplary years in the military. “When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.” 19754yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Jennifer Connelly & David Bowie rehearsing for ballroom scene from Labyrinth 19864yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
The eye of an electrician that was accidentally shocked by 14,000 volts of electricity on the job4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
When Christina Ricci Totally Nailed The Wednesday Addams Role 19914yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
‘The Hills Have Eyes’ Movie Set/Abandoned Gas Station, Morocco3yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
Grossinger's Hotel Resort Pool in the Catskill’s NY, Before and After4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
Over 7,000 bags of gold and silver the Nazis stole from citizens in an underground vault 1945 [600x600]4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Edith Steiner, a Jewish woman that survived the Holocaust & John Mackay, the man that rescued her from Auschwitz we’re married for 71 years after they met under such horrible circumstances 1940s4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Olga Korbut doing her extremely difficult “Korbut Flip” at the 1972 Summer Olympics (was latter banned for safety reasons)4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/BetterEveryLoop
SS Empire Heritage wreck; was carrying a huge cargo of war materials during the Second World War. The wreck lies at Malin Head, off the coast of Donegal in Ireland3yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
The precision on this sand sculpture by artist Andoni Bastarrika4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A Queen’s guard with an individual air raid shelter next to sentry box during The Blitz - London 1940 [594x457]4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
What’s left of ‘The Georgia Girl Drive-In’ in Woodbine, Georgia4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
Continuity Polaroids of Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) from the set of the X-Files 19944yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
“Back in 1966, women were not allowed to enter restaurants in pantsuits, so Yves Saint Laurent decided to give a big f-you to that rule and created a pantsuit just for women.“3yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
The opening ceremony at the first (modern) Olympic Games - Athens, Greece 1896 [640x427]4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Camouflage Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-21-IIb bomber seconds before its destruction by parafrag bombs dropped by a U.S. Army Air Force Douglas A-20 Havoc. Dated 1943 [620x772]4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Goldie Williams - Rebellious Woman Who Got Arrested For Vagrancy & Refused to Unfold Her Arms and Stop Making This Face For Her 1898 Mugshot. (Omaha, Nebraska)5yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Abandoned House (Built 1985) Island of Love, Staryi Solotvyn Village, Ukraine5yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
Fashionistas Back When Short Shorts Were Still Widely Considered Risque - Los Angeles 1950s4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Aerial shot of the United Methodist Church at the corner of 577 Washington Street and 6th Avenue - Gary, Indiana4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
Margaret Leonard, the first white southerner to participate in the “freedom riders;” a group of black & white activists that rode interstate buses into the south to protest non-enforcement of discrimination laws in public transit 1961. Arrested for protesting.4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Victorian era bathing machines - Women were required to stay fully clothed until they got inside a bathing machine to change into suit; then someone would wheel the cart out into the ocean so the woman can get into the water privately without being seen in swimsuit. 1890s4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Polaroid chief chemist Howard G Rogers and unidentified others as they pose with 5,000 bottles of chemical compounds used to discover the Polaroid color film process, 19633yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
23 year old Gary Anderson designing the recycling logo for a contest, 19704yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
An American Airlines (DC-3) plane flying past a stagecoach 1949 [1200x827]4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The same newspaper prop has been used in thousands of movies and TV shows for over 50 years4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Abandoned Sea Captain's House in Searsport, Maine - Built 1830s.5yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
Judy Sullivan, first woman engineer in Spacecraft Operations at NASA, monitoring the biomedical sensors of the astronauts during the Apollo 11 mission 1969 [1041x662]4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Bloso Outdoor, an abandoned outdoor sports facility near the Belgium village of Hofstade4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
This 1974 letter to parents that was included in LEGO’s packaging encouraging the originality of imagination, gender equality, and simply just letting kids be who they are.4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
William Dorsey Swann, a former slave that referred to himself as “queen of drag;” one of the first known open drag queens and the first person to organize a gay resistance. 1880s4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
When Soviet troops in WWII started closing in on Berlin, citizens took in many of the animals at the Berlin Zoo to protect them 19454yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/pics
An untouched chalkboard from 1917 was found behind a classroom wall at Emerson High School in Oklahoma City3yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Private island development that fell into a financial crisis and abandoned. Dellis Cay, Turks and Caicos.4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
Man Takes Girlfriend on a Tough Twisty 15 Mile Bicycling Path That Spelled Out “Marry Me” When She Checked Her GPS Map At The End of the Ride5yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Swedish photographer Geert Weggen has spent years gaining the trust of squirrels where he lives...taking some really cool photos along the way...4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/MadeMeSmile
River Phoenix, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman and Wil Wheaton. Premiere of ‘Stand by Me’ 19864yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Female moonshiners arrested by federal agents during prohibition 19214yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Orpheum, New Bedford, Massachusetts - opened 1912, abandoned 19594yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
Buddha statue embedded in a Banyan tree amongst temple ruins in Ayutthaya, Thailand4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
The abandoned stacked cabin; “Dr. Seuss House” in Alaska - owner spent 10 years building it until his death.4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
Chateau de la Mothe-Chandeniers, in the Vienne departement of France, abandoned due to fire in 19325yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
“The Cavern or Lost Souls” - Slate mine that was abandoned in 1960. Ceredigion, Wales4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
The Sioux Nation of Native Americans Teepees Spread Across the Great Plains in 1800s (image believed to have been taken in the Dakota Territory)4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Police officer stopping traffic to let a mother cat carrying her kitten cross an NYC intersection 19254yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Margaret Hamilton (Wicked With of the West) attends a theater play of 'The Wizard of Oz' in the 1970s. Posing with a 'Wizard of Oz' poster behind her4yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool