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36 Interesting Snapshots Of History Shared By This Instagram Page That Aims To Surprise And Educate
Article created by: Ilona Baliūnaitė
You can learn about history from books, but that’s a long path, and quite likely not the one you took back in your school years. Or you did, and in that case, hats off to you!
Luckily, the internet is not only meant for endless scrolling, weakening our attention span and eating up these precious free hours we don’t even have. With educational social media channels getting more and more popular, we can expand our knowledge horizons with little effort.
And this awesome Instagram page titled “History in Pictures” promises exactly that. Followed by 89.8K followers and counting, it offers a collection of the most brilliant, rare, and forgotten moments in the past captured on camera.
“Learn a little about a lot — one fact a day,” the description says and how can you not be down for it! Scroll down through our selection of the best posts below.
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#2
After The Breakup Of The Ussr, The Lithuanian Basketball Team Couldn't Afford To Participate In The 1992 Olympics
That’s when the not-at-all random but completely natural savior stepped in: the iconic rock band @gratefuldead. They funded the boys trip – and provided them a license to sell special Grateful Dead-Olympics merchandise, which proved massively popular with fans at the Olympics
#3
In 1960, David Latimer Planted A Garden Inside Of A Giant Glass Bottle And Sealed It Shut. Latimer Only Opened The Bottle Once In 1972 To Add A Bit Of Water. The Self Contained Ecosystem Has Flourished For 60 Years
#4
An Iconic Chicago Image Of Some Southside Boys, Taken In 1941. They’d Be In Their Late 80’s Or Early 90’s Today
#5
This Is How Marlene Dietrich Showed Up In Paris In 1933 After Being Told Not To Wear Pants Upon Arrival. Can't Have A Woman Dressing Like A Man. What’s Next? Equal Rights? Lol
#7
Did You Know That Food Delivery In Japan Started Over 300 Years Ago, During The Edo Period?
Anyway: Having Seen This Young Man Gloriously Deliver Ramen In 1935, The Dude From Doordash Must At Least Make It To My Actual Door To Be Worthy A Tip From Now On
#8
In 1983, Freddy Heineken Was Kidnapped, Held To Ransom (€16 M) And Later Said "They Tortured Me For 3 Days, They Made Me Drink Carlsberg."
#10
Some Nerds Caption: Crown Prince Wilhelm Of Germany Striking A Pose While Inspecting The Troops, Ca. 1915. My Caption: "..mein Milkshake Brings All Zhe Boys To Zhe Yard"
#11
Life Advice: Be A Lot More Like Roger Moore On The Set Of The 1973 Bond Movie ’live & Let Die’ And Ignore All Your Emails Until Monday Morning
#12
Pov: It’s 1970 And You’re Outside Nathan’s, Eagerly Waiting For Your Buddy To Finish His Hot Dog So That You Can Get Back Up On Your Chopper Bike (Which Has A Banana Seat) And Go Smoke Bubblegum Cigars In A Dubiously Constructed Tree House
#13
The Most Fascinating Man In The World? Maybe. Peter Freuchen (Here With His Wife Dagmar Freuchen-Gale)
Standing six feet seven inches, Freuchen was an arctic explorer, journalist, author, and anthropologist. He participated in several arctic journeys (including a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more than a dozen books (novels and nonfiction, including his Famous Book of the Eskimos), had a peg leg (he lost his leg to frostbite in 1926; he amputated his gangrenous toes himself), was involved in the Danish resistance against Germany… [and] once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces.
#14
Some 40 Years Ago, In October Of 1981, Sweden Woke Up To Find A Soviet Whiskey Class Submarine Stuck On A Rock
No, Russians never knew how to navigate the democratic waters. Yes, the incident became known as "Whiskey on the rocks"
#15
Hought Your Life Was Boring? Well, You Were Probably Right. Working As A Waitress In 1921, Lillian Boyer Was Invited By Customers To Go Flying
She climbed onto the wing her very first flight, and later performed in 352 shows until 1929 – when airplane safety regulations forced barnstormers into retirement and ruined all the fun
#16
Actress Tippi Hedren Would Later Confess It Was "Stupid Beyond Belief" To Treat A 400lb Beast Like A Domestic Pet At Their La Home During The 70s
#18
Jimmy Walker, Who Was The 97th Mayor Of NYC (Which You Obviously Knew Already), Seen Chilling With Members Of The Blackfeet Nation Tribe In ’27
Contrary to popular belief, this photograph did *not* get him cancelled
#21
Tsar Nicholas II. Looks Like A Selfie Stick But He Was Probably Just Checking The Camera When It Went Off
#23
Your Periodic Reminder That All Of This Started Because One Tiny Bureaucrat Felt He Wasn't Getting Enough Respect 30 Years Ago. Be Kind To Your Tiny Bureaucrats, Folks
#24
Millennials Childhood Summed In One Photo: Macaulay Culkin In An Rl Polo And Reebok Pump Twilight Zones While Leaning On The Delorean
#25
Have You Ever Liked Your Car So Much You Stuck It On The Wall? Joakim Bonnier Did. He Drove This Brm V12 Powered Mclaren M5a To Sixth Place In The 1968 Italian Grand Prix
#26
Nasa Trying Out A Spacesuit Intended For The Moon Landing, 1962. Unfortunately, Whatever Genius Invented This One Lost To Playtex Prototype (Yes, Armstrong’s Outfit Was Designed By A Bra Manufacturer)
#28
The World's Last Stone Age Tribe Lives On North Sentinel Island In The Indian Ocean, And They Are Known For Defending Their Island Against All Visitors
Having enjoyed quarantine life for the past 60,000 years, there is genetically a direct line between them and their pre-Neolithic ancestors. In 1991, however, they did accept some coconuts in what is considered the only 'friendly' encounter between the Sentinelese and outsiders
#30
One Small Step For Aviation History, But A Giant Leap For Mankind!
When United Airlines just announced their purchase of supersonic passenger jets, they made them sound like something new and fancy. And sure, yeah, they’re fancy – but not new! So while we’re waiting for them to roll out (2025), fly (2026) and carry passengers (2029), let’s take this moment to remember a true beauty from ahead of her time. First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 1976 and operated for 27 years. With a cruising speed twice the speed of sound, it could take you from NYC to London in 3 ½ hours. If you were a cult leader, international drug lord, startup nerd or just rich in general, that is: because a ticket for London cost $7574 in ’96
#31
Ince The 19th-Century Guy Who Was The Actual Inspiration For The Character Of Mowgli Looked Far Less Cute On Photo (Google ’dina Sanichar’ At Your Own Risk), Let’s Look At Tippi Degre’s Childhood Gallery From The ’90s Instead
Born In Namibia To French Wildlife Photography Parents, She Got To Call A Five-Ton Elephant Her ”brother,” Chill With Cheetahs And Hug Giant Bullfrogs As If They Were Her Teddy Bears
#32
Hate Your Life? It Could Be Worse, Spent In The Lower Dungeon Of Warwick Castle For Instance. An ‘Oubliette’, Where Prisoners Were Dropped And Forgotten About
#33
Patient Zero. The One. Número Uno. The Dude Who Single-Handedly Started ’80s Fashion. Case Closed
It’s Mainly Thanks To My Solid Commitment, Hard Work, Dedication And Whatever Article In Which I Learned That Sleep Deprivation Is Really Cool (But Also Some Advances In Molecular Techniques And A Thermophysiological Scientist) He Was Tracked Down Once And For All.
#34
Ideator Defined: Whoever Decided To Bring This Porsche 911 To A Tiny Island Between Australia And New Zealand Using That Delivery Method In 1982
#35
If You Like To Travel The World, You Could Go Visit Ctesiphon, Which Was Once The Largest City In The World, Built By The Parthians (Known For Having Taken Over The World A Few Times Over The Course Of World History) And The The World’s Largest Single Span Unreinforced Brick Arch
And yes, the camera wouldn’t bless the world until thousands of years later, but that’s a reconstruction of what it MAY have looked like, much like how there are 3d functions in Google World, you otherwordly literate nerd
#36
A Party You Wish You Hadn’t Missed. Noel And Liam Gallagher With Diego Maradona In Buenos Aires, 1998
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