Interesting As Fuck...

[blackpepper]

This is not an anti aircraft gun. It is a punt gun which used to shoot down ducks. Probably just a little too much!

Wht ppl.

 

[Casca]

Billy Baily performing the moonwalk for the first time in New York 1955 , 28 years before Michael Jackson did

 

[RUDY RAYYY MO]

Babe Ruth posing with fans 1925. He was a popular figure in the African American community because of his willingness to treat them as he would white fans, along with rumors of him being biracial.

Bullshit he was racist

 

[Fresh1911]

Bullshit he was racist

Where did you read this?

 

[RUDY RAYYY MO]

Where did you read this?

It's known and he denied blackness

 

[Casca]

On this day: African-American men were granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C., despite President Andrew Johnson’s veto (1867)

 

[DC_Dude]

 

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[DC_Dude]

 

[DC_Dude]

 

[DC_Dude]

 

[DC_Dude]

 

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[DC_Dude]

 

[Ballatician]

Bullshit he was racist

Word? I’ve been hearing he was passing since forever. I wouldn’t be surprised.

 

[Casca]

Auto stereoscopic 3D display in China

 

[mrcmd187]

Babe Ruth posing with fans 1925. He was a popular figure in the African American community because of his willingness to treat them as he would white fans, along with rumors of him being biracial.

Just the Cacs knowing he might be biracial will burn their souls

 

[God Dammit]

how the hell
does this fucking work

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[dbluesun]

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thanks dawg
i wonder how you think about moving your ankle versus a knee

 

[blackpepper]

 

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[717jet]

Cabot .45 M1911 pistols machined from the 4 billion year old Gibeon meteorite. Engineers utilized a combination of X-ray photography, 3-D modeling, CAD-CAM design, aerospace construction techniques and electron-beam technology to create them. Cost for the pair $4.5 million. Link in comments

 

[717jet]

Hanging by a thread. A peregrine falcon poses with the decapitated head of its recent kill.

 

[717jet]

An artificial nose from the 17th-18th century. Fake noses like this one were often given to Syphilis victims who had lost theirs as a result of their illness

 

[717jet]

The tongue of the woodpecker is wrapped around its brain when retracted to help protect the brain when pecking

 

[Casca]

The original disappearing photograph from the unfinished version of "Back to the Future" with Eric Stoltz in the lead role before it was all reshot with Michael J. Fox. 1985

 

[Casca]

93 years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader and Nobel laureate, was born in Atlanta.

He led the Montgomery bus boycott at age 26, established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and worked for 13 years to peacefully end segregation. His “I Have a Dream” speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC was one of the most powerful and inspiring events in America’s History.

 

[blackpepper]

This one surprised me just a little.

 

[mk23666]

Auto stereoscopic 3D display in China

Back in 2011 the Japanese were toying with it.

 

[Casca]

1920’s Trojan condoms found in basement of house built in 1938.

 

[Casca]

 

[Casca]

Love Vanilla ice cream? Please thank Edmond Albius! Horticulturist born into slavery in Réunion. At the age of 12, he changed the Vanilla Industry forever when he discovered the best way to cultivate it. His tech is still used to cultivate vanilla today.

https://www.amplifyafrica.org/post/edmond-albius-the-boy-who-shook-up-the-vanilla-industry.

 

[Casca]

Her lawyer was future president Chester Arthur, and other interesting details: https://history.nycourts.gov/case/jennings-third-ave/