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Bedouin woman with her child. Saudi Arabia, 1948
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A couple riding together on an autoped, 1923.
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Men lining up for a chance at employment during the Great Depression.
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How did we ever survive . Lead piping, No Refrigerator, No Sell by Dates, Aspestos lagging, No Seat Belts, Coal Fires, No Fat content Warnings , And only Fish n Chips Takeaways. Life was simpler and expectations realistic. People were kinder and grateful to be alive after two world wars.
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Workers on extremely long ladders building the USS Akron, Ohio, circa 1931.
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A Protestant husband and his Catholic wife were not allowed to be buried together. Here are their headstones reaching across the two cemeteries in 1888.
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American soldiers recover looted paintings in Germany under the supervision of Captain James Rorimer of the MFAA, WWII
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A street in Damascus, Syria, c. 1900-1920s
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📸 Women delivering ice long before the invention of the refrigerator - 1918
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📸 A dog named Leo sits for 2 days next to the grave of his owner, who died during a landslide in Rio de Janeiro 🇬🇧
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📸 Radioactive equipment cemetery. Chernobyl - 1986 🇬🇧
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📸 A woman crushes grapes to make wine. Italy - 1957 🇬🇧
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📸 Face protection against snow storms, Canada - 1939
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📸 Fans climbed trees to watch a football match between Belgium and Holland - 1913 #history #oldlife #oldphoto #football #holland #belgium

📸 Ivory traders in the Great Lakes region. Africa, decade - 1880 🇬🇧
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A snail's nervous system consists of 20,000 neurons. The human brain, to compare, contains several hundred billion neurons.

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The light emitted by the sun can penetrate to a depth of about 1 km,but only under the right conditions.Therefore, very often even at a depth of just over 200 meters there is total darkness.The first zone is a depth of up to 200 meters, and it is called the"sunlight zone"or euphotic zone.
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📸 M-497 'Black Beetle' New York Central Railroad jet train. 🇬🇧
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Photographer Margaret Bourke-White taking a photo from the top of a Building in 1935.
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📦 Bubble wrap was originally intended to be used as room wallpaper! However, it eventually became one of the most popular ways to package products.

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The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. is the largest library in the world and contains more than 162 million items in its collection, including books, maps, newspapers, music, and photographs #knowledge #library #books

A Scottish clinic has been operating for three years to treat addiction to cryptocurrencies.

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Japan is the only country in the world where you learn to write with both right and left hands.

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Internet speed at NASA - 91 GB per second

And this means that at this speed you could download all seasons of all your favorite TV shows in 1 second in the highest resolution.‌‌
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About 75 percent of the world's food comes from just 12 plants and 5 animal species. Almost half of our plant-derived calories come from just three foods: wheat, corn and rice. While estimates vary, it is believed that there are over 30,000 edible plants, and we only eat 150 of them.
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📸 Longest hair contest, Madrid - 1927‌‌ 🇬🇧

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📸 A child near the demolished Lenin monument, Ethiopia - 1991‌‌ 🇬🇧
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📸 Sculptors Charles Lang and Otto Falkenbach working on the head of a Triceratops for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago - 1938 🇬🇧
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Scorpions are so resilient that if you freeze them for a few weeks, they will wake up alive and well.

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“Hiroshima shadows”

When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the intensity of the blast was of such intensity that it permanently burned shadows of people and objects into the ground.

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