28 Weird Oddities From History
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Published
03/27/2015
Pictures highlighting the stranger moments throughout history.
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The day Sweden switched which side of the road they drive on. [1967] -
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Boy Scouts examine their boots after an 8,000 mile hike to attend the first Boy Scout Jamboree. They walked 25 miles a day for two years. [1937] -
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The Ku Klux Klan at a carnival in Canon City. [1925] -
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Four horsemen ride through the streets of Amsterdam on a ‘motor-less day’, when cars were prohibited due to the oil crisis. [1973] -
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When they realized that poverty-stricken women were using sacks to make clothes for their children, some flour mills started using flowered fabric for their sacks. [1939] -
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Female bodybuilder Patricia O’Keefe, who weighed only 64 pounds, gives a 200 pound man a piggyback ride. [1940] -
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A man testing a prototype football helmet. [1912] -
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Winners of Miss Perfect Posture contest at chiropractors convention. [1956] Each girl stood on a pair of scales,one foot to each, and the winning trio each registered half her weight on each scale, confirming correct standing posture. -
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Soldiers use gas masks to stop them crying while peeling onions. [1941] -
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A boy stands next to his riding boar. [c. 1930s] -
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Russian soldiers feed polar bears from their tank. [1950] -
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A police officer judges an ankle competition in London. [1930] -
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New South Wales police in Australia turn their motorcycles into chariots. [1936] -
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A US Marine, somewhere in the Pacific Islands, poses for the camera. [c. 1941 – 1945] -
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Teachers have a spot to drink on Spring Break. [1910] -
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A dog poses with a pipe. [1875] -
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Children without access to water learn to swim in a schoolyard. [c. 1920s] -
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The Telefontornet, which connected 5,000 phone lines in Stockholm. [1890] -
19.
Sean Connery signs a coconut for a little Jamaican fan on the set of Dr. No. [1962] -
20.
The US Capitol Building is painted with a layer of red anti-rust paint, before being painted white again. [1959] -
21.
An ancient statue of Ramses the Great is dismantled and relocated during construction of the Aswan Dam. [1967] -
22.
An elephant is used to load supplies onto an American plane. [1945] -
23.
President Lyndon B. Johnson driving his amphibious car. As a prank, he would drive the car straight towards the lake when anyone visited his ranch. [1965] -
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British Soldiers with captured German Goliath tank busters, which would drive under tanks and explode. [c. 1939-1945] -
25.
Moody Jacobs shows a giant bruise on the side his patient, Ann Hodges, after she became the only person in history to have been struck by a meteorite. [1954] -
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Laika, the first dog in space, has her capsule built around her. No provisions were made for her return, and she died in orbit. [1957] -
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A dog being posed by a German soldier. [1940] -
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12,500 officers, nurses and soldiers from Camp Gordon form a human eagle. [1918] -
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They were quickly outdone by 30,000 men from Camp Custer. -
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A foot guard passes out as Queen Elizabeth II rides past during a parade. [1970] -
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A bulldog guards a British home barricaded during the Blitz. [c. 1939-1945] -
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The World’s Record black sea bass caught by Edward Llewellen. It weight 425 lbs. He bought it in alone. [1903] -
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A woman rides an early electric scooter. [1916]
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