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People love going down rabbit holes, and when they crawl back with something new, they head straight to the subreddit 'All That's Interesting.'
It's full of pictures of remote places, historical artifacts, inspiring human initiatives, and much, much more. So if you too enjoy learning obscure facts about anything and everything, join us in having a look at this online community's top posts.
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#1
Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who lived above her family's shop when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940. Soon after, they decided to build a secret room and use it to hide Jewish refugees. Over the next four years, Corrie ten Boom saved more than 800 people from the Holocaust.
Rob D 1 day ago (edited)
Her direct family's only survivor. I can't wrap my head around an entire society mobilizing around, not just genocide, but the systemic, industrial nature of it. Which is why I sound like a psychopath in my unrelenting bullying, cajoling, and profiling trumpers as the vile scum they are... Because we are in 1930s Germany danger territory of making, and have made, twice now, history altering cruelty ("faith") based decisions on the backs of people who absolutely would have been Hïtler supporters in another context. If only half of Germany had looked at the other half and said, "get that filthy "red hat" off, it's not okay. Who you support and why is not okay. How antithetical you're being to basic decency, humanity, and the agreed upon role of government in a civil society is not ok.". Anyway, I often sound like a ranting loon because more people needed to 10-15 years prior to the holócaust. And I am not being overdramatic or hyperbolic about MAGAts being every single bit as dangerous.
Rebecca O’Donnell 1 day ago
Your comment needs to be upvoted more, Rob D!
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 day ago
The Dutch were absolute legends, hiding and helping their Jewish friends and neighbours to escape to neutral countries.
Bartlet for world domination 1 day ago
Nah, most looked the other way, some sold info to the Germans and The Netherlands have the lowest percentage of surviving Jews in Western Europe.
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Moving Enigma 1 day ago
And now people in the US need to start building the same to protect people from ICE.
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#2
Morgan Freeman imported 26 hives from Arkansas to his ranch and planted magnolia, clover, lavender, and bee-friendly fruit trees so that the bees could thrive.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 day ago
Is he considered a national treasure in the USA? If not, he should be.
WindySwede 1 day ago
@Otto Katz : Yes 100% this! Humans have an economical intrest in the honeybee and will do much to not let them die out. Try to do native flowers with lots of pollen and nectar. And tips for future, Post link with an answer then we can answer directly to you 👍
#3
In 1913, a 10-year-old black girl named Sarah Rector received a land allotment of 160 acres in Oklahoma. The best farming land was reserved for whites, leaving her with a barren plot, but oil was discovered on her property and she became one of the country's first black millionaires.
Kid Murray 1 day ago
What, being given worthless land and hoping oil will be discovered on it?
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Andrew Keir 1 day ago
I'm just happy, but amazed that the State didn't immediately find some way of stealing it all back from her, like they did when it turned out that the First People had been 'given' some land that was later found to have value.
#4
A herd of capybaras at Malaysia's national zoo adopted a stray cat named Oyen during the COVID-19 pandemic — and today he’s an official part of their enclosure.
DH 1 day ago
Nobody tell Oyen that Capybaras are rodents. Cappies are chill tho, they know Oyen is a cat.
Shark Lady 1 day ago
If you read this without seeing Oyen you would guess he's a ginger, they are built a bit different.
#5
Zofia Posmysz's mugshot after being arrested for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets in 1942 when she was 19 years old. She was sent to Auschwitz and Ravensbrück, surviving harsh conditions before being liberated in May 1945 by the US Army. She died in 2022 at 98 years old.
Ben Aziza 1 day ago
The idea that in the west, many countries they still classify ppl by "race" is insane to me. I see that the word "African American" for example is still used in IDs and things like that. We know it refer to ppl with black skin. Yet I am from Africa myself. I have olive coloured skin. Would I be an "African American" if i get citizenship there? Why is this a thing at all! I dont get it. We are one humankind with different countries of origin. That is it. I will understand this whole "race" thing if one can tell me what "race" are the grandkids of 4 grandparents from Canada, Ghana, Korea, and Australia are ! Or if humanity diverge on different planets for 1 milliopn years or so in th future or something like that...
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 day ago
And yet we still have Holo.caust deniers. Absolutely makes my blood boil.
TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 22 hours ago
Same. I wasn't around then to fight fàscism like my grandfathers were but I will do it now in the US instead
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In 1959 police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy refused to leave after being told the library was not for Black people. The boy Ronald McNair went on to get a PhD in physics from MIT and became an astronaut. That library is now named after him.
Rob D 1 day ago (edited)
1959. 1959. 1959. Remember that the next time a boomer MAGAt refutes racism. These people were literally adults BEFORE The civil Rights and voting Rights Acts were passed. Yet took absolutely zero time voting "we're tired of hearing about it, there's no racism. Now you want to talk discrimination, let's talk about how tough us white conservative Christians have it..." 😡 And we still share a political realm with these morons and still pay for it. Every d**n day.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
Mr Pedant mentions - people may try to assert that something is incorrect - this assertion is called 'rebuttal'. MAGA are rebutting claims they are racist. It would only be if they proved this to be true beyond reasonable doubt , that they could say they were refuting it. The words are different for a reason, because they mean different things. Don't give MAGA breathing room.
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The reforestation of Rio De Janeiro from 1989 to 2019.
Forrest Hobbs 1 hour ago (edited)
Smeghead Tribble Down Under, yeah, wow indeed - only, that's Brazil. If you leave the land alone in Brazil and there are trees nearby, it'll end up covered in trees. I live in NW England and you know what? I've got trees growing as weeds behind two of my sheds and they've defeated all my efforts to get rid of them (yes okay I could have tried harder - I like trees). Trees have it much easier in Brazil. No, I'm not some sort of monster, it's just that I'd quite like my sheds to stay standing up, thanks.
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During WW2, the Tuskegee Airmen were a group of black pilots who were given outdated planes because the U.S. military didn't believe they could succeed. In spite of the odds, they would have one of the lowest loss rates of any American fighter group and would earn over 850 medals for their service.
Ace 1 day ago
Disgusting that the US army was segregated in WW2, and remained so for many years afterwards. There were sometimes problems in British pubs who refused to make their bars white-only, so allowing all staff from US air bases to co-mingle. The Americans tried to stop them, but were told ever-so-politley to fock right off with that shít.
Rob D 1 day ago (edited)
With the benefit of hindsight and in a really warped way I'm almost glad the army was segregated during world war II. Because 25 years later with an integrated army in Vietnam black soldiers got used as human freaking shields, with casualty rates appallingly different than their white counterparts, I can only imagine what would have happened in WWII. 🤦🏻♂️
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#9
In 1995, 15-year-old Nicole van den Hurk was killed while biking to work in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Her murder went unsolved for two decades — until her stepbrother confessed to get police to reopen the investigation. Subsequent DNA testing then led to the arrest and conviction of her killer.
Remi (He/Him) 1 day ago
And appalling lack of determination from the police
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I'm confused - did her step-brother falsely 'confess' to get the case opened up, or was he in fact the killer?
Shark Lady 1 day ago
He falsely confessed as he knew it would reopen the investigation.
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A drone captures an elephant herd sleeping while migrating across China.
#11
5-Year-Old Boy Invites His Entire Class To Watch Him Get Adopted
ANGEL BABY 18 hours ago
You think you're being cute lampenny.... "Ninjas" you need to be blocked from BP!!!!!!!!!
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RamiRudolph 1 day ago
Lots of things. Puppies and kittens wearing bowties, for example.
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#12
She was 11 when WWI started, 36 when WWII began, 74 when Star Wars released, and 116 when COVID-19 started. Her name was Kane Tanaka, the world’s oldest living person until she passed away in 2022 at age 119. She was born on January 2, 1903.
#13
In 1962 a group of far-right French officers attempted to assassinate President Charles De Gaulle for his support of Algerian independence. One of the 187 shots fired was blocked by a framed picture of his late, mentally disabled daughter Anne that he took with him wherever he went. He was unharmed
Michael Largey 3 hours ago
Well, your aim is going to off after you ht your head on that doorway.
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Fellfromthemoon 1 day ago (edited)
So, 186 shots were blocked neither by the framed picture nor luckily De Gaulle's body.
#14
A Massive 2700-Year-Old, 18-Ton Statue Of An Assyrian Deity That Was Excavated In Iraq In November 2023
Fellfromthemoon 1 day ago (edited)
Delicate and large stoneworks give me a strange anxiety. I always think about almost finishing the carving when the instriument slips, ruining the entire thing.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
Feel , then, for the jeweller who had to make the first cut on the diamond that went on to be the Great Star of Africa on the sceptre of the reigning monarch of the UK. Apparently he fainted after his first cut was successful ...
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#15
Once a meteorological research station of the Soviet Union, Kolyuchin Island is a 3 mile long island in the Arctic circle that was abandoned in 1992. In 2021, a photographer traveled to Kolyuchin and captured something unexpected: it's been completely taken over by polar bears.
#16
When gay rights activist David Kirby revealed his homosexuality to his family, they cast him out. But Kirby's family returned to his side as he lay dying of AIDS, captured in this photo taken by student photographer Therese Frare in 1990.
Sian E 1 day ago
Look how far we came in just 40 years. From unknown virus with a guaranteed d*@th sentence, to experimental d***s, to greater understanding of the virus, to medication that can reduce the virus to undetectable amounts in the body - meaning that a person diagnosed with HIV today has every chance of living a normal lifespan. And yet the threat of all that progress being stripped away is very, very real because of political and religious decisions.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
Too many religions are not much more than licences to hate everyone outside their churches.
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#17
At the 544-mile Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983, a 61-year-old potato farmer named Cliff Young showed up in overalls and work boots. While other runners stopped to sleep, Young moved continuously for five straight days. He would win the race and broke the existing record by two days.
Moving Enigma 1 day ago
As he obviously didn't run in his overalls (assuming this is the correct picture) now I'm left wondering, and hoping, that he didn't run in his work boots either!
Zero Costa 9 hours ago
not putting it in kms is Australiaphobic. in driving that's around 9 hours
Huddo's sister 19 hours ago
There is a good tv movie or mini series (I can't remember which) made by the ABC called Cliffy about this. I hadn't heard of him until I saw it, being born in the 90s.
#18
A 900-Year-Old Crusader Sword That Was Found In 2021 On The Bottom Of The Mediterranean By A Scuba Diver
Paweł Pieniążek 1 day ago
https://archaeologymag.com/2023/08/crusader-sword-found-in-mediterranean-was-bent-in-battle/
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
Hey! Did BP fix the hiding of links? This is the first time in a month I've seen a link that wasn't hidden.
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Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 1 day ago
I think that's where the rabbit hole comes in
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JuniorCJ82 1 day ago
Went to the Israel Antiquities Authority youtube page and they didn't have a video of the restoration. Maybe it's been removed or something. It HAS been 4 years.
#19
The Tollund Man, The 2,400-Year-Old Corpse Uncovered In A Peat Bog In Denmark That Is So Well-Preserved That Scientists Were Able To Take His Fingerprints And Determine His Last Meal Before He Was Killed
Lady Eowyn 1 day ago
The original post comments on the fact that there was a noose around his neck. He was hanged - hung? , probably as part of a human sacrifice.
#20
A 1,800-Year-Old Roman Gladiator Arena That Was Discovered In Western Turkey In July 2021
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 day ago
Heck, there's a 2000 year old one still being used in Nimes (not for gladiators!). I've seen at least 3 concerts there.
Lee Gilliland 1 day ago
The number of archeological finds found by people looking at Google Earth is astonishing.
#21
In an incredible fusion of history and modern science, experts have brought the face of a medieval warrior back to life. He was one of many who fell in the brutal Battle of Visby in 1361
Son of Philosoraptor 1 day ago
Probably that disabled him and then he got speared or stabbed. That doesn't look fatal, just awful.
#22
In 1947, Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl completed a 101-day, 4,300-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean from Peru to French Polynesia on a homemade raft built only with balsa logs and hemp rope — proving that ancient peoples could have made the same voyage
Ace 1 day ago
But they didn't. He proved that the technology available to them might have made it possible, but later research proved conclusively that the various migration routes he was proposing did not happen.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
He did what he could with the knowledge available at the time. Respect is due.
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The Sun has officially set in Barrow, Alaska, and it won't rise again until January 22, 2026
General Anaesthesia 1 day ago
About the same for Grise Fiord, Nunavut, Canada at 76 degrees North latitude (Utqiagvik, as Barrow has officially been called since December 1, 2016, is at 71 degrees North)
MrLiesegang 1 day ago
More then "30 days of night", which is still a good horror movie set in Barrow.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 day ago
Today was 37°C. Tomorrow it's supposed to be 41°. I don't think I could handle months without sun.
Kid Murray 1 day ago
It was -14 last night where I live in Canada. Oddly I prefer that over your temps. 41C is intolerable.
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martymcmatrix 1 day ago
I'll send Al Pacino for further investigations, if you don't mind...he once was there when it wouldn't get dark, so...🤪 😜
#24
“Radium Girls” painted glowing watch dials with self luminous paint, licking their brushes to keep a sharp tip. No one told them the paint was radioactive. The radium settled into their bones, rotting their jaws from the inside. The condition became known as radium jaw.
Chich the witch 1 day ago
I have read that the owners did know there was a danger but you know - profits.
Upstaged75 1 hour ago
Radium Girls is also the title of a book about them. What those poor women suffered is truly horrifying.
#25
The Ocean Project — an international undertaking to catalog and identify the 1 to 2 million undocumented animals in the ocean — has just announced the discovery of 866 new species. These are some of their most stunning finds.
Lady Eowyn 1 day ago
Click the gray letters under the photo to see more photos. They are very, very, strange.
Shark Lady 1 day ago
There is a documentary about their work, annoyingly I can't remember which platform I watched it on.
#26
In 1967, Robert Lawrence Jr. became America’s first Black astronaut. At his first press conference, a reporter asked if he’d have to sit in the back of the space capsule. Less than a year later, he was killed in a jet crash before ever getting the chance to go to space.
Nicole Weymann 1 day ago
For my own peace of mind I'll assume the question was meant to be sarcastic, as a comment on still existand conditions.
Rebecca O’Donnell 1 day ago
He responded with a laugh so I hope the question was meant as a joke.
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ANGEL BABY 18 hours ago
Absolutely no part of that idiotic question was humorous, it was disrespectful and derogatory!!!!
roddy 3 hours ago
Unless the reporter was trying to make a point about how stupid the concept is. It's hard to know how else to take it. Obviously there is no back row in space.
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The Irish Elk — the largest known deer species in history — which roamed across Eurasia until it went extinct approximately 7,500 years ago.
Ace 1 day ago
Bigger than a moose? Apparently so, although that specimen is perhaps not the tallest that they actually grew to. Much more stocky and heavy tan a moose though.
Forrest Hobbs 1 hour ago
Ace: they've got an Irish Elk skeleton in a local museum. They were absolutely enormous - yes, bigger than a moose and I know how big they are.
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After being left the night before his wedding, Ed Leedskalnin migrated to America and bought land in Florida. For the next 3 decades, the 100-pound Latvian built a 2.2 million pound wonder known as Coral Castle. To this day, no one knows how he carved and stacked 1,000 tons of stony coral by himself
Hobby Hopper 1 day ago
They do know. We have pictures and eye-witness accounts that confirm Leedskalnin used primitive tools such as pulleys, tripod cranes, levers, and wedges. The limestone blocks he used were quarried himself from right next to his construction. Still an astounding feat.
Forrest Hobbs 1 hour ago
Ed Leedskalnin did amazing things. For another similar (semi)-lone effort, you could search for the Minack Theatre, originally built by Rowena Cade with help from her gardener Billy Rawlings (well, yes, and some other friends - still, Ms Cade was the driving force and did an awful lot of the hard physical work herself),.
#29
Children in Dachau concentration camp cheer the arrival of American troops in April 1945.
QuincyForrest 1 hour ago
Yes. It rends my soul just to see these images. They have become even more emotionally searing to me over the decades.
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In September 2018, a pair of fishermen in Northern Ireland reeled in a 6-foot-wide elk skull from the bottom of a lake. It turned out to be over 10,000 years old and from an extinct species known as the Irish Elk.
#31
Sixty miles southeast of Anchorage is Whittier, a remote Alaskan town where all 272 residents live in the same building. Designed to be self-sufficient because of the region's extreme climate, the 14 story Begich Towers has a school, hospital, grocery store, and police department all under one roof.
#32
Filming Apocalypse Now was so physically, mentally, and financially exhausting that Francis Ford Coppola had numerous breakdowns on the Philippines set in 1976. Dennis Hopper's drug use, Martin Sheen's binge-drinking, and Marlon Brando refusing to learn his lines all contributed to the film's chaos.
Norfolk and good 1 day ago
If you haven't already watch The Offer. A dramatisation of the making of The Godfather, another Coppola classic.
Michael Largey 2 hours ago
Having to replace the lead actor and that replacement suffering a heart attack didn't help either.
#33
In 1954, a young Julie Andrews practiced ballet with her Aunt Joan Wells, who ran a dance studio.
Forrest Hobbs 1 hour ago
Sarah Suelzle: a lovely photo indeed. But I can't help thinking "What about that mad bra, eh?" Pointy and - not that I'd know - uncomfortable?
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In the early days of social media, Kenny the white tiger became a viral sensation for allegedly having down syndrome. But the truth was much darker: Kenny was the result of repeated inbreeding by for-profit animal breeders. He suffered for most of his life and died when he was only 10 years old.
G A 16 hours ago
White Tigers are a highly inbred population and they have no conservation value. They should be allowed to die out. In fact most US tigers are mongrels of cross bred subspecies and largely useless for breeding and maintaining the wild population, due to greedy breeders keeping them as status 'pets'.
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That would be a fairly normal age in the wild, but in captivity tigers are more likely to live to 20.
G A 16 hours ago
Not when they are that fvcked up. He wouldn't have survived infancy.
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#35
In 1959, 15-year-old Jim Bishop bought 2.5 acres of land in Rye, Colorado for $1,250. Over the next six decades, he single-handedly built a 160 foot tall palace known as Bishop Castle that features a cathedral, sprawling spiral staircases, and a fire-breathing dragon made of recycled hot plates.
UnclePanda 1 day ago
Then you're on the wrong webpage. Wikipedia has a nice entry and better pictures.
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I wonder how he had that much money at 15 - inflation makes it equivalent to a lot more in today's dollars, at least 10 k.
#36
In 1978, Soviet geologists discovered a family living in complete isolation deep in Siberia. The Lykovs had fled Stalin’s persecution in 1936 and, for 42 years, survived without any human contact, technology, or knowledge that World War II had even happened.
Otto Katz 1 day ago
They left because of their religion (not specified, according to wiki). They also had limited contact with the outside world, so may have had knowledge of WWII
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
Nevertheless, respect is due for their determination and courage.
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German World War II era lesbian couple. Felice Schragenheim, a Jewish resistance fighter and Lilly Wust, mother of 4, wife of a Wehrmacht member. Hours after these photos were taken Felice was captured. She did not survive the war. Lilly never forgot Felice
Rebecca O’Donnell 1 day ago
If you tap on the name on the lower left side of the above picture you can read the full story. Heartbreaking and fascinating!
#38
Identical triplet brothers, separated at birth, unexpectedly reunited while attending the same college
Orchidoclaste 1 day ago
Deliberately separated. For experimental purposes. Not so great a story
Shark Lady 1 day ago
Quite a few twins and triplets were split up so psychologists could study the nature/nurture debate.
#39
Twin sisters June and Jennifer Gibbons, known as “The Silent Twins,” refused to speak to anyone but each other, communicating in a secret language for nearly 30 years. Then, immediately after Jennifer’s sudden death in 1993, June began to speak freely for the first time in her life.
Ace 1 day ago
Not a happy story. They were sentenced, as children, to indefinite detention at Broadmoor, the most secure psychiatric hospital in Britain, home to many infamous murderers.
Hugo 1 day ago
Broadmoor was a hospital for the criminally insane. My great-aunt's husband was incarcerated there after attacking her with a knife. So what crime did these sisters commit?
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Lee Gilliland 1 day ago (edited)
Many identical twins have a secret language early in life they abandon about the time they start school.
Lynchamigsakta 1 day ago
Well this is just not true. They had a couple of distinct speech impediment and people couldn't understand them. The full story is a lot more interesting and quite heartbreaking . They also wrote obsessively so they certainly communicated with others
#40
On 9/11, firefighter Scott Davidson — father of comedian Pete Davidson — raced with Ladder 118 across the Brooklyn Bridge toward the burning Twin Towers. Minutes later, he and five crewmates were killed while evacuating the Marriott World Trade Center hotel as the North Tower collapsed on top of it.
Moving Enigma 1 day ago
And ICE recently arrested a firefighter in front of his colleagues as they were fighting a huge forest fire, classy.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
What do you expect from the people who want to join ICE ?
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John Ratcliffe, Jamestown’s governor and the real-life inspiration for Disney’s Pocahontas villain, died a horrific death. After being tricked and captured, Pamunkey women cut away his skin with mussel shells, burning each piece as he watched. They saved his face for last, then burned him alive.
#42
A family in Harmans, Maryland pays respect as Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train passes through their town on June 8, 1968.
Debby Keir 1 day ago
They had one for Queeh Elizabeth II (who was taken by air, but the train was for mourners from Balmoral to London) - en route, a load of excavators bowed to the train, and she was accompanied by tractors to the station at Balmoral.
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Yora Belle End 1 day ago
The American "TV Dinner" was invented in 1953 and sold in 1954. McDonalds was founded in 1940 and then franchised in 1955. This was the era of fast food. So I don't understand your comment? care to explain?
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Lost Panda 1 day ago
Looks like there might be a creek or river behind the foilage. The kids might have been swimming/playing in it while they waited for the train.
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While renovating the Auschwitz memorial in July 2020, workers found a tattered pair of children's shoes with a handwritten note inside. Experts soon learned that the shoes belonged to a six-year-old Czech boy named Amos Steinberg, who was sent to the Nazi concentration camp alongside his mother.
Rob D 1 day ago (edited)
Thankfully we don't have the stomach for concentration camps anymore (I say that, but they tried to open one right here in everglades, FL this year). But know the spirit lives on every time a family gets broken up and deported without any due process. It's functionally the modern equivalent to "putting them on the train...". Know this of your maga supporting friends and family. The scene in Schindler's list of the little girl sneering "bye Jews"... Go to yahoo/fox news comments on any deportation story...friggin scary.
TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 21 hours ago
Why not? The world needs to remember. Too many people have forgotten, look at the US
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In Victorian England, asylums housed everyone from serial killers to the disabled to the mentally ill — a dangerous combination compounded by the government encouraging the public to visit and observe patients like a zoo. These are portraits of some the patients confined to these institutions.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
Some girls were put in there for the 'crime' of having a child out of wedlock. There is no record of any fathers being punished, however.
Michael Largey 2 hours ago
Today in America if you wish to view raving lunatics dangerous to the public, you must obtain a ticket to one of the galleries of Congress.
#45
At least 26 petroglyphs — some dating upwards of 1,000-years-old — have become visible by shifting sands on a beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
#46
The haunting “4 Children For Sale” photograph from 1948 captured a Chicago mother, Lucille Chalifoux, hiding her face as her four young children sat beneath a sign offering them for sale. Within two years, all of them — including the unborn baby she carried — were placed with different families.
Robyn Hill 19 hours ago
At least two of these children ended up in a very a*****e home. They were essentially trafficked. The parents could put a roof over their own heads, but not afford their kids? I have zero sympathy for them.
Peeka_Mimi 51 minutes ago
These children spoke up and said their parents were a*****e and so were the people they wee sold to. Very sad.
Kid Murray 1 day ago
Why? In 1938, sure.1948 was a time of unparalleled prosperity. I'm having trouble coming up with a legitimate reason why someone would be desperately poor during the postwar boom in a big city. There was a mild recession that started in late 1948 but it was nowhere near bad enough to account for this.
#47
Police officers react after seeing the crime scene inside Andrea Yates house in the Houston suburb of Clear Lake City, Texas. On June 20, 2001, she waited for her husband to leave for work before drowning her five children one by one in the family bathtub.
not a sock 1 day ago
she got severe postnatal depression with her pregnancies and doctor strongly advised against her getting pregnant again, but each time her ultra religious husband would force her to have another and another and another. she's come up for parole hearings but refuses to attend them and instead remains in prison. it's all so g*****n sad.
A Young Hag 1 day ago
She and her psychiatrist told husband and mother in-law she should not have more children and should not be left with them alone due to extreme post partum depression and psychosis. But their religion knew better. Tragedy that could be avoided.
Sue User 1 day ago
Theere should be a way to help get people out if these dituations, with the kids.
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A father and son pose for a photo beside a car in Omagh, Northern Ireland — unaware it’s packed with explosives and about to blow. Moments later, the car exploded and killed the photographer who took the photo, along with 28 other people, in the Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland on August 15, 1998.
Forrest Hobbs 1 hour ago
Andrew Keir: the situation in NI was down to "rabid nationalism" opposed by "ignorant twerps in Westminster" - the rabid nationalists exploiting religious and political divides. It's a lot more complicated than it seems to most outsiders; I'm one such.
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 1 hour ago
Awenpotato: don't forget that in NI, both "communities" were and remain (allegedly) Christian. 🤨🥺
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This is an early automobile air conditioner, popular from the 1930s through to the 1960s. Water inside the cooler evaporates and in the process transfers heat from the surrounding air to evaporate the water, giving in return cool moisture-laden air inside
UnclePanda 1 day ago (edited)
In the 60s and 70s, we shifted to 4-60 air conditioning - four windows down and going 60 mph.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
And doggo with his head out of a window, blocking the view in the mirror but happy anyway
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Grandparents had one, 1950s-60s. They liked to go to deserts in their retirement travel. These window-mount evap coolers worked pretty good in a dry but hot environment.
#50
A Colorized Photo Of Grigori Rasputin With The Last Empress Of Russia And Her Five Children In 1908
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
Britain is still shamed by refusing to let the Tsar and family go there in 1917
#51
Unknown man dies from eating library paste. Nevada, 1908
#52
"Government cheese," produced in the 1980s to offload a massive dairy surplus, was stored in Missouri’s underground caves and given to struggling Americans. The surplus stemmed from 1970s farm policies that left the government with over a billion pounds of cheese.
Steff 1 day ago
This administration would burn it, in front of hungry senior citizens and children
Rosecrucian Roeth 1 day ago
Nah, they'd bring all the really poor folks to DC and then eat it in front of them .............and then complain that they should go out and work for their food!
Load More Replies... Rob D 1 day ago (edited)
Strong, conservative, salt of the earth, bootstrapping, independent, American farmers... Constantly bailed out by government they hate since the USDA was founded. 🤦🏻♂️👍🏻
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
Or, as the Waco Kid would have said, "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know, ... "
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Rinso The Red 1 day ago
As someone who's family received more than a few blocks of this stuff, it's creates a strange nostalgia. It's an experience that only others that grew up on this stuff can relate too.
Son of Philosoraptor 1 day ago
Loved that stuff. Great cheese. Really helped me when I was in my early 20s
George Costanza 1 day ago
Pretty sure we still have those stupid subsidies and still have massive amounts of stored cheese. And corn. And other things we don't actually need.
#53
Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, photographed on his first trip to New Guinea in May 1960, studying the Asmat people. One year later, he vanished off the coast during a later expedition and was rumored to have been killed and eaten by the same tribe he was studying.
Serena Myers 1 day ago
"He studied their art, and documented their culture, there are some famous images and documentaries showing him immersed in their world", or so states AI.
Debby Keir 1 day ago
He'd certainly be 'immersed' if he was eaten (groan)
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 hours ago
I'm not an expert in these things, but his body looks photoshopped into the picture to me. The lighting seems wrong.
#54
In 1913, 33-year-old Dolly Oesterreich began an affair with 17-year-old Otto Sanhuber, who then hid for the next decade in her attic. In 1922, after overhearing a violent argument, Otto emerged and shot Dolly's husband to death. What followed was one of the most sensational trials in U.S. history.
#55
In June 1995, six-year-old Morgan Nick vanished while catching lightning bugs at a Little League game in Alma, Arkansas, just yards from her mother. For nearly 30 years, the case remained unsolved until new DNA evidence finally linked her disappearance to convicted kidnapper Billy Jack Lincks.
#56
For decades in the mid-1900s, a man-made lake known as Salton Sea was a beloved resort in southern California. But climate change and farm runoff wreaked havoc on the ecosystem, sending toxic dust into the air and killing millions of wildlife. Today, the area sits almost completely abandoned.
#57
Swimmers in Las Vegas, Nevada watch the mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb test 75 miles away in 1953.
#58
Riding The New York City Subway In The 1980s, When It Was The Most Dangerous Transit System In The World
AnnaB 1 day ago
The two men in the picture are members of the Guardian Angels, a group of volunteers who tried to maintain order in the subways during the 70s and 80s. They wore red berets.
Wiles Anonim 1 day ago
"The Warriors" movie vibe. Now... I need to watch it again. Great movie!
#59
Before European settlement, over 60 million buffalo roamed across North America, from New York to Georgia to Texas to the Northwest Territories. In the late 1800s, the U.S. government encouraged the extermination of bison to starve out Native Americans — and by 1890, less than 600 buffalo remained.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
Or, the planet does not deserve to have humans on it. But it's fighting back ...
Load More Replies... not a sock 1 day ago
"to starve out Native Americans" – and some folk wonder why so many people prefer animals to humans...
Hugo 1 day ago
They were bison, not buffalo. The various species of buffalo are Eurasian or African.
Jared C 14 hours ago
Buffalo is what they were called by the people there at that time. Your attempt at appearing superior failed miserably.
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#60
In 2005, 18-year-old Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba after leaving a nightclub with Dutch teenager Joran van der Sloot. Though he changed his story multiple times, killed another woman in Peru, and years later provided a confession, Holloway’s disappearance has never been officially solved.
#61
During filming of "The Seven Year Itch" in 1954, over 1,500 New Yorkers swarmed 51st Street to watch Marilyn Monroe's dress fly up. The crowd chanted "Higher! Higher!" as they gawked, enraging Monroe's husband Joe DiMaggio. He beat her so badly that night that she filed for divorce three weeks later
Chewie Baron 1 day ago
True. But he was the one who organised and paid for her funeral.
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In 1993, six hikers were trekking near Lake Baikal in Siberia when they were suddenly overcome with horrific symptoms. Blood streamed from their eyes and noses, they clutched at their throats and bashed their heads against rock..
highwaycrossingfrog 1 day ago
Carbon monoxide poisoning doesn't cause bleeding from orifices. Or typically occur on the side of a mountain. Some sort of chemical poisoning does seem a possible explanation though.
Load More Replies... Austzn 1 day ago
Oh, I've seen this lake in a nature documentary. Can't confirm if this is what happened to them but the doc said that these really deep lakes that also sit over tectonic rifts can accumulate dissolved gasses which are normally kept at the bottom with the cold and dense water but sometimes can be disturbed or "turned over" and the gasses escape, often with deadly consequences. I think they said there's only like 3 lakes in the world that have this risk.
София Харитонова 1 day ago (edited)
The only survivor says NOTHING about bleeding. There was some type of psychosis, but the main version is that they just froze to death. They were very lightly clothed and didn't have enough food. Source: Russian Wiki and other articles. Don't trust everything you see on the net.
#63
One of the only known photographs of Kathleen Maddox, the mother of Charles Manson. A teenage runaway, she gave birth to Charles when she was only 16, tried to rob a liquor store with a broken ketchup bottle, and allegedly tried to trade her son for a pitcher of beer.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
Not totally surprising that this terrible upbringing resulted in his criminality
#64
As a teenager, Big Pun was an accomplished boxer and loved playing basketball. But after dropping out of school and battling depression, he became addicted to food. Over the next decade, he gained 50 pounds a year before dying from a massive heart attack at 28 years old while weighing 698 pounds.
#65
In 2012, 37-year-old Cari Farver suddenly disappeared in Omaha, Nebraska. For the next three years, her killer, Shanna “Liz” Golyar, impersonated her through thousands of texts and emails to her family and friends before investigators uncovered the truth.
#66
Vernell Bass, a neighbor of Jeffrey Dahmer, stands outside the police-padded door of apartment 213 in the Oxford Apartments in Milwaukee, 1991. See real photos of inside and outside the serial killer's apartment.
#67
After John Dillinger was shot by the FBI in 1934, bystanders rushed to the theater where he was killed to soak their handkerchiefs in his blood while thousands mobbed Chicago's morgue to have their pictures taken with the corpse of the infamous bank robber
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
The urge to 'triumph' over a dead person tells us more than enough about so many people.
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 1 day ago
That part about the bl00d is a tradition that goes way back in history, when there were public ex3cut1ons, and people would gather around to watch, and get fabric soaked in bl00d as a souvenir. Weirdly, you never see the handkerchiefs brought to be appraised in the Antiques Roadshow
Norfolk and good 1 day ago
Gangsters were seen as glamorous during prohibition and the great depression in the US, because of their defiance against authority. Dillinger stole from banks at a time when millions of people were having their homes repossessed by those same banks.
#68
In February 2015, 18-year-old Daylenn Pua set out to hike Oahu’s forbidden 3,922-step “stairway to heaven” — the haiku stairs — and vanished without a trace. He left behind only a few photos, one of which showed a mysterious figure in the background, and a decade of unanswered questions.
highwaycrossingfrog 1 day ago
This is pretty thoroughly debunked. The "figure" in the background is a vague shape in the trees, and if someone vanishes on a forbidden set of highly dangerous steps, it's a fair bet they fell off
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
"Stairway to heaven" - More dangerous than he thought - Daylenn Pua's gone." (Haiku stairs)
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