28 Weird Oddities From History

Pictures highlighting the stranger moments throughout history.

1.

Female bodybuilder Patricia O’Keefe, who weighed only 64 pounds, gives a 200 pound man a piggyback ride. [1940]

2.

A man testing a prototype football helmet. [1912]

3.

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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4.

Soldiers use gas masks to stop them crying while peeling onions. [1941]

5.

A boy stands next to his riding boar. [c. 1930s]

6.

Russian soldiers feed polar bears from their tank. [1950]

7.

A police officer judges an ankle competition in London. [1930]

8.

New South Wales police in Australia turn their motorcycles into chariots. [1936]

9.

A US Marine, somewhere in the Pacific Islands, poses for the camera. [c. 1941 – 1945]

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10.

Teachers have a spot to drink on Spring Break. [1910]

11.

A dog poses with a pipe. [1875]

12.

Children without access to water learn to swim in a schoolyard. [c. 1920s]

13.

The Telefontornet, which connected 5,000 phone lines in Stockholm. [1890]

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14.

Sean Connery signs a coconut for a little Jamaican fan on the set of Dr. No. [1962]

15.

The US Capitol Building is painted with a layer of red anti-rust paint, before being painted white again. [1959]

16.

An ancient statue of Ramses the Great is dismantled and relocated during construction of the Aswan Dam. [1967]

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17.

An elephant is used to load supplies onto an American plane. [1945]

18.

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]

19.

British Soldiers with captured German Goliath tank busters, which would drive under tanks and explode. [c. 1939-1945]

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20.

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]

21.

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]

22.

A dog being posed by a German soldier. [1940]

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23.

12,500 officers, nurses and soldiers from Camp Gordon form a human eagle. [1918]

24.

They were quickly outdone by 30,000 men from Camp Custer.

25.

A foot guard passes out as Queen Elizabeth II rides past during a parade. [1970]

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26.

A bulldog guards a British home barricaded during the Blitz. [c. 1939-1945]

27.

The World’s Record black sea bass caught by Edward Llewellen. It weight 425 lbs. He bought it in alone. [1903]

28.

A woman rides an early electric scooter. [1916]

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