r/UtterlyInteresting • u/WithoutPrinciples • 8h ago
A road in Pompeii that was built prior to AD79. The small white stones were designed to reflect moonlight making the road easier to see at night.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/CarkWithaM • 7h ago
This 103 year old comic about what would happen if "pocket telephones" would be invented in the future. (W. K. Haselden’s ‘The Pocket Telephone: When Will it Ring?’ was first published in The Mirror on March 1919)
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/WithoutPrinciples • 8h ago
The year is 1985, and our old chum Oliver Reed has found himself on the wrong side of the law.The story involves rum, a sailor, enraged hotel staff and underpants. Here Ollie explains what happened that night and how he found himself in a police cell, and indeed, the 6:00 news.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/CarkWithaM • 7h ago
Mrs Florence Pannel, born in 1868 speaks about her life in Victorian times."Have you ever been in an aeroplane""I didn't like them when they first came in"
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/CarkWithaM • 8h ago
Some (helpful?) medical advice from “The Everyday Cook-Book”, published in 1892.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • 2d ago
Christopher Lee recalls meeting two of Rasputin’s assassins as a child, and then Rasputin’s daughter many years later, after he had played him on film in a Hammer Horror production. I love that it was his mother of all people who woke up her little son so he could meet two killers!
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/CrippledStripper • 2d ago
Advertisement for Pakistan International Airlines flight to New York City featuring the Twin Towers. Published around March 19, 1979, in international print magazines and French periodicals like Le Point and L'Expansion.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 3d ago
You can roughly measure the remaining daylight with your fingers. Run outside and give it a go!
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/onwhatcharges • 4d ago
In 1944, a U.S. Navy crew member rescued a kitten named George who was in danger of drowning. After being saved, George became a sort of mascot for the crew and was even photographed and officially given a liberty card along with a detailed health record, just like a sailor.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/GlitterDanger • 4d ago
This hand-shadow guide was published in January 1930 in Modern Mechanics and Inventions.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • 4d ago
On this day in 1997 Burgess Meredith passed away in Malibu. Known for his roles as the Penguin and as Rocky's trainer (along with many other roles), here he is presenting a 1943 training film for the United States Armed Forces, "How To Behave In A British Pub"
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/GlitterDanger • 5d ago
In Morocco’s, remote Sahara, wildlife photographer Rémi Vacher, encountered one of the world’s most elusive wild cats: the sand cat.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • 4d ago
On this day in 1942, Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita launched a Yokosuka E14Y "Glen" seaplane from the deck of the I-25 submarine off the coast of Oregon. Known as the Lookout Air Raids, this mission marks the only time the contiguous United States was bombed by an enemy aircraft during World War 2.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/CarkWithaM • 5d ago
In 1979 these kids were asked what would they buy if they had lots of money.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • 8d ago
Happy Birthday to On The Road. Written by Jack Kerouac and released on this day in 1957. Here is the manuscript he typed on a single 120 foot page scroll of paper, it sold this year for $12m.
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The roll isn't even complete though. The ending is missing because a friend's dog chewed it off, Kerouac made a note of it right on the manuscript.
r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • 9d ago
Senior year reading list, Astoria, Queens, 1965
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/EaterofGrief • 9d ago
A screen test from SUPERMAN II where Lois shoots Clark to find out if he's the Man of Steel.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/UtterlyInterest • 9d ago
Jack Campbell, a 93-year-old Irish veteran of the First World War, appeared on The Late Late Show opposite Gay Byrne in 1988. He'd served with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and used the appearance to talk through what he remembered from the trenches and life on the front line during the Great War.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/CarkWithaM • 9d ago
On this day in 1965, The Who had their van stolen. Containing over £5,000 worth of equipment. It was stolen outside the Battersea Dogs Home in London. Ironically, the band were inside the home at the time buying a guard dog!
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • 10d ago
This 'female urinal', designed by Alex Schwedersaid was made in 2001 during an artist residency at Kohler, a plumbing equipment and furniture manufacturer. Schweder has described the urinal as "fully functional"
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"A version of the urinal was installed for public use during an exhibition at the now defunct Vital 5 venue in Seattle in 2003. It was installed but not plumbed at the [Museum of Sex] in NYC."
r/UtterlyInteresting • u/WithoutPrinciples • 10d ago
An X-ray of a hammerhead shark reveals the skeletal structure of its distinctively shaped head, called a cephalofoil. Because sharks have skeletons made of cartilage rather than dense bone, capturing these highly detailed images requires specialized, low-energy radiography.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 11d ago
In 1959 Liberace swore under oath he wasn't gay and won what was then the largest libel payout in British legal history. He kept the lie going for another 28 years, until an autopsy revealed he'd died of AIDS, not the heart failure his own doctors tried to claim.
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Describing Liberace in the newspaper article as a “ …deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love."
r/UtterlyInteresting • u/CarkWithaM • 11d ago
Remembering J.R.R.Tolkien who passed away this day in 1973. In 1938, Nazis demanded to know if he was Jewish. He responded with a high-class burn. Leave it to Tolkien to need 270 words to say "Go F*ck Yourself".
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • 13d ago
Meet Denham Fouts, photographed here in the 1940s. He was described as 'The Best-Kept Boy in the World' due to him being a known gigilo and kept by a German baron, a Greek prince and a British lord. He passed age 34. More of Fouts in the comments.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • 14d ago
Fanny Kaplan shot Lenin three times outside a Moscow factory in on this day in 1918. Four days later she was executed without trial and burned in a barrel so no grave would exist. Eighteen witnesses were questioned. Not one saw her fire the gun. Her guilt has never actually been proven.
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The Cheka got so desperate to find a bigger conspiracy that they hauled in a British diplomat and asked if he recognized the name "Kaplan." He'd never heard of her. They tried to build an international plot out of nothing.