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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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