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‘Weird History’ Is An Account That Shares Interesting, Odd, And Funny Things That Happened Throughout History (50 New Pics)
They say truth is stranger than fiction, and they’re not wrong. We often look for entertainment on the big screen or media only to forget the biggest amusement park of wonder, exploration and ingenuity called human history.
So today, we are taking a look into the weird, bizarre and simply incredible world of the past thanks to the Twitter page “Weird History.” Boasting 186.4K followers, the account shares historical peculiarities not everyone knows today.
From pin boys lining up the bowling pins before automated machines to the fact that Harvard had three campus breweries, to a photograph of a boy experiencing television for the first time in 1948, these are the moments worthy of books.
Scroll down through the most peculiar collection of historical photos below, upvote your favorite ones and be sure to check out our previous curiosity-inducing posts about history in photos here and here.
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Matthew Goodall 4 years ago
The photo doesn’t do it justice. This building alone is worth the trip to Antwerp
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Amanda Rose 4 years ago
Revolutions were taking place all over Europe that year. My third great grandfather left Germany alone as a 15 year old that same year because of them.
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max and the expresso 4 years ago (edited)
I think it didn't quit work as they lived mostly by the coast (where submarines weren't) and they could tell the difference between friendly submarines and enemy ones.
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3 Owls In A Coat 4 years ago
Wow, I didn’t realize the same dice design has been used for so long
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Allison Bancroft 4 years ago
its cool how you can kind of see what countries are what and which haven't been mapped out yet.
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BeardedVulture 4 years ago
Rotate it one more time and you have the French flag. Get a pillowcase of this and rep any of the three countries at your whim.
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max and the expresso 4 years ago
You could win a significant amount of money too. One man earned around 15 billion in today's currency.
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Annie Bird 4 years ago
And now anthropogenic climate change brings you the great heat wave of London 2022!
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max and the expresso 4 years ago
Remarkably only 1 is reported to have died. It climbed out of the box mid drop.
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PattyK 4 years ago
The desk shown above was made from the timbers of H.M.S. Resolute. It is not the only desk used by U.S. presidents, and was not always in the Oval Office, but resided in other rooms of the White House. At one point it was moved to the Smithsonian Institution but was returned to the White House by President John F. Kennedy. After his assassination, President Lyndon B. Johnson had it removed from the Oval Office.
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sofacushionfort 4 years ago
Not “colorized” as in hand-tinted. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Used a camera that split the image through three separate filters, that combined into a color photo
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Hoppe Trockner 4 years ago
Rival to the Wright Brothers- they eventually joined together and Curtiss-Wright still exists today. The Curtiss museum on the shore of Lake Seneca in NY has some of the COOLEST inventions - everything from a motorcycle that carried a family of four across America, bicycles with V8 engines, to the first Motor boats (completely wooden and beautiful), and of course some airplanes and special oddities like the first versions of motor homes for the very rich at the turn of the century.
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Amanda Rose 4 years ago
The story of the Montgolfier brothers hot air balloon creation is fascinating.
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clist414 4 years ago
Apparently spelling was not an emphasized thing in Shakespeare's day, partially due to the oral tradition still being more commonplace than printed word. You might know how to say a thing, and not really need to know how it's spelled or to write it. Spelling was just less important.
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Kise Miarse 4 years ago
Does that still work out? In terms of revolutions/rotation of the earth? (Too lazy to try the math)
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Never Stop Learning 4 years ago
Or just cementing the fact that they have always been full of chicken sh!t
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albernistuff 4sale 4 years ago
A number of them did so after seeing what their soldiers were doing to civilians. There is a case of a Japanese sailor rescued by the USN Barb sub during WWII. He had been a merchant seaman, but was disgusted by what his countrymen were doing. He was happy to assist the sub crew with any chores he could, grateful as he was.
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Amanda Rose 4 years ago
The photo on the right is from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University.
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Catherine Graffham 4 years ago
It wasn’t Lord Sandwich (a person who never existed), it was John Montagu the Earl of Sandwich
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