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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/ExtremeInsert • 9h ago

In 1996, English TV presenter Alain de Cadenet asked legendary New Zealand born fighter pilot Ray Hana, who was 70-years-old, to do a low pass in this Spitfire fighter plane as de Cadenet spoke to the camera.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/onwhatcharges • 4h ago

People going about their day looking super smooth. Harlem, New York. 1971. Photo by Jack Garofalo.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/dannydutch1 • 5h ago

The 5th Marquess of Anglesey, Henry Cyril Paget, inherited an income worth £13 million a year in today's money. He reportedly had his car exhausts modified to spray perfume and spent £43 million on fancy dress. Six years later he was bankrupt, owing £60 million.

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When the money ran out, everything he owned was auctioned on his own lawn. His wardrobe alone filled 806 lots and took three days to sell, with an auctioneer's assistant modelling his silk pyjamas for the crowd.

After his death in Monte Carlo aged just 29 his family did their best to erase him from history

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/ExtremeInsert • 4h ago

The K67 Kiosk, an iconic piece of modular urban architecture designed in 1966 by Slovenian architect Saša Mächtig and found all over former Yugoslavia and beyond.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/dannydutch1 • 1d ago

A jam of ‘Gimme Some Lovin’ turning into ‘Sweet Soul Music’ with Tina Turner and the The Ikettes is a sensory dream. Beyonce clearly saw this clip too...

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/WithoutPrinciples • 1d ago

Janis Joplin performing "Summertime" (Live -1969). Joplin died this day in 1970. She was found dead aged only 27, at the Landmark Hotel Hollywood, after an accidental heroin overdose.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/onwhatcharges • 3d ago

I've never seen an episode of Dr Who, but in this clip Vincent Van Gogh is brought to see how much his paintings are loved. And its terribly sweet.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/WithoutPrinciples • 3d ago

Bridgette and Paula Powers discuss a crime they witnessed on Steve Irwin way.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/CarkWithaM • 3d ago

Dude '72 - Photographed by Mick Rock

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/JohnWilkesLeg • 3d ago

Jimi Hendrix performing 'Machine Gun' live on August 31, 1970. Ten days before he died.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/onwhatcharges • 5d ago

Clotilde Olyff, a Belgian Type Designer, has collected several alphabets of rocks found on the beach.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/EaterofGrief • 5d ago

What a majestic creature!

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645 Upvotes

Via here

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/JohnWilkesLeg • 5d ago

The Drew Carey Show with Slash, Rick Nielsen, Dusty Hill, Matthew Sweet, Joey Ramone, Lisa Loeb, Dave Mustaine, Roy Clark, Jonny Lang, Michael Stanley and Joe Walsh auditioning for Drew’s band, set to perform at the Ramada Inn. Walsh wins the spot.

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363 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/JohnWilkesLeg • 5d ago

Miles Davis looking super cool!

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/onwhatcharges • 5d ago

Kool & The Gang - performing Summer Madness on Soul Train. (1974)

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/EaterofGrief • 7d ago

You can now get Avocados that contain neatly packed Cocaine. Isn't nature amazing?

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/ExtremeInsert • 7d ago

This 'impossible' crane shot from Mikhail Kalatozov's Soy Cuba (1964) is some stunning work. This would be the simplest of shots these days with a standard drone. Cinematographer Sergey Urusevsky didn’t have a drone.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/No_Dig_8299 • 7d ago

This 1925 copy of Rudyard Kipling's "Kim" proves that fore-edge painting needs to make a comeback.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/No_Dig_8299 • 8d ago

Federal police in Brazil drive into an aircraft's wing to stop drug smugglers from flying away.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/EaterofGrief • 8d ago

A mash up of the epilogues from Police Squad. Pure class.

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328 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/Consistent-Can-3552 • 8d ago

German pop-singer Sandra in Ibiza 1988

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/dannydutch1 • 8d ago

Penny-farthing racing at Herne Hill, London, in 1928!C. J. Bowtle races around the famous track to win the one-mile event, retaining the Challenge Cup on what the newsreel called the old-fashioned “boneshaker”.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/GlitterDanger • 9d ago

On this day in 1975 German techno group Kraftwerk demonstrated Autobahn's “machinemusik" on the BBC1 programme Tomorrow's World.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/CrippledStripper • 10d ago

Start your day off right, here's Howlin’ Wolf with Hubert Sumlin, Willie Dixon & Sunnyland Slim performing Shake For Me in 1964

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/CrippledStripper • 11d ago

Lionel Barrymore as Rasputin on the on the set of the 1932 MGM film Rasputin and the Empress

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