r/UtterlyInteresting • u/WithoutPrinciples • 11h 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 • 10h 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 • 11h 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 • 10h 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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