26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

There is a misconception that life used to be safer and calmer. Of course, this is just a delusion. Each historical period boasts a whole array of strange social habits, traditions, and beliefs. Some of them are really useful by the standards of that time, but for us they can still seem like absolute wildness.

In our selection of 26 of the most freaky photos about the oddities of the past.

(Total 26 photos)

Patricia O'Keeffe, a 30kg young bodybuilder, carries a 90kg man on his back. 1940

In 1973, car driving was banned in Amsterdam due to a fuel crisis. But a solution has been found.

In 1939, mills in the United States began to supply flour in colorful bags. This was done so that after the poor could sew clothes from sackcloth.

The photo shows a 200-kilogram perch and fisherman Edward Llewellen, who single-handedly managed to catch this monster. By the way, his record has not been beaten to this day.

In 1938, schoolteacher Helen Hulick was sentenced to 5 days in prison for wearing trousers to her trial. This was seen as contempt of court.

German soldiers photograph a dog in 1940.

1969 Niagara Falls temporarily shut down for "restoration work".

Between 1939 and 1945, British sappers often found such "mini-tanks". They were used by German soldiers to undermine full-sized military vehicles from below.

US President Lyndon Johnson liked to impress his guests and ride them on the lake in an amphibious vehicle.

Nothing unusual. Members of the Ku Klux Klan ride the Ferris wheel. 1925

An elephant helps load food onto an American plane in 1945.

During the filming of Dr. No, Sean Connery autographed a coconut for a little Jamaican fan. 1962

So in 1890, a system of 5,000 telephone lines in Stockholm looked like.

Do you want to learn how to swim, but the water is far away? The solution came up in 1920.

Wacky animal photos have been taken since 1875.

Field, Friday, 1910 (joke - just 1910).

Period from 1941 to 1945.

In 1930, ponies were for girls and weaklings. And all real men rode exclusively on wild boars.

The Macy store often hired detectives to prevent theft. In 1948, front workers took a group photo, but did not reveal their identity.

Chariots are cool. Motorcycles are cool too. The South Wales Police decided to combine all this coolness in one vehicle.

The most beautiful legs in 1930 were chosen in this way.

1950, a Russian tanker feeds polar bears.

Ann Hodges and her doctor Moody Jacobs show the press a bruise on Ann's body left by a piece of a meteorite that fell in 1945.

Horrors of war. Soldiers use gas masks to peel onions.

And here are the winners of the Miss Perfect Posture contest at a chiropractic convention in 1956.

Testing a football helmet in 1912.