28 Weird Oddities From History
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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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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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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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The US Capitol Building is painted with a layer of red anti-rust paint, before being painted white again. [1959]
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An ancient statue of Ramses the Great is dismantled and relocated during construction of the Aswan Dam. [1967]
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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]
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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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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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