26 freaky historical facts from the series " Nichosi!»

There is a misconception that life used to be safer and calmer. Of course, this is just a misconception. Each historical period boasts a whole set of strange social habits, traditions, and beliefs. Some of them are really useful by the standards of the time, but for us they can still seem absolutely wild.

In our collection of 26 of the most freaky photos about the oddities of the past.

Patricia O'Keefe, a young bodybuilder weighing 30 kilograms, carries a 90-kilogram man on her back. 1940.

In 1973, motor driving was banned in Amsterdam due to the fuel crisis. But a solution was found.

In 1939, mills in the United States began to supply flour in colorful bags. This was done so that the poor could then make their own clothes out of baggy cloth.

The photo shows a two-hundred-kilogram perch and fisherman Edward Llewellen, who alone was able to catch this monster. By the way, his record is not broken to this day.

In 1938, a schoolteacher, Helen Hulick, was sentenced to 5 days in prison for appearing at a trial in trousers. Such a view was considered a contempt of court.

German soldiers photograph a dog in 1940.

1969, Niagara Falls temporarily halted for "restoration work".

In the period from 1939 to 1945, British sappers often found such "mini-tanks". They were used by German soldiers to blow up full-size military vehicles from below.

President of the United States Lyndon Johnson liked to impress his guests and drive them in an amphibious car on the lake.

Nothing unusual. Members of the Ku Klux Klan ride a Ferris wheel. 1925.

An elephant helps load food onto an American plane in 1945.

During the filming of the film "Dr. Know", Sean Connery signed an autograph on a coconut for a little fan from Jamaica. 1962.

This is what the system of 5,000 telephone lines in Stockholm looked like in 1890.

Do you want to learn how to swim, but it's too far to the water? The solution was invented in 1920.

Stupid photos with animals began to be taken in 1875.

Field, Friday, 1910 (joke — just 1910).

The period from 1941 to 1945.

In the 1930s, ponies were for girls and weaklings. And all the real men rode exclusively on wild boars.

The Macy's store often hired detectives to prevent thefts. In 1948, the front employees took a group photo, but did not disclose their identity.

Chariots are cool. Motorcycles are also cool. South Wales Police decided to combine all this coolness in one vehicle.

The most beautiful legs in 1930 were chosen this way.

1950, a Russian tanker feeds polar bears.

Ann Hodges and her doctor Moody Jacobs show the press the bruise on Ann's body left by a fragment of a meteorite that fell in 1945.

The horrors of war. Soldiers use gas masks to peel onions.

And here are the winners of the Miss Perfect Posture contest at the chiropractor convention in 1956.

Testing a football helmet in 1912.