26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

Categories: History

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)

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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.

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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.

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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.

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

German soldiers photograph a dog in 1940.

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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.

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

Wacky animal photos have been taken since 1875.

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

Period from 1941 to 1945.

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

1950, a Russian tanker feeds polar bears.

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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.

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

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

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

Testing a football helmet in 1912.

Keywords: Retro | Weirdness | Facts | Photography

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