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25 Facts And Photos From History To Learn Something New
There is so much to see, read, and learn about the world and about history. It's always fun to learn something new, and so much information can be found online. History is broad and winding; there is no shortage of information to learn. There is something for everyone to become interested in, from big historical events to mild and small moments in everyday life.
Vintage photos of all kinds can be found all over the web, and they don't even have to be hard to find or difficult to learn about. Many people share small tidbits of history and random moments from history so that people can find something they likely have never seen before. It's amazing just how much can be found online.
It's fun to get away from the normal content the web has to offer. Instead, take the time to indulge in some interesting historical facts and rare photos with a cool backstory. Here are 25 utterly unique images and some unknown facts to wonder about today.
Springfield, Massachusetts, students lying at the bottom of an empty pool during preseason training, 1994
(Source: Redd)
A dancing class in the girls' recreation hall at the War Relocation Authority Centre, 1942
(Source: Redd)
A four-year-old who shucks oysters at Dunbar. The mother is the fastest shucker in the place, earns $1.50 a day, 1911
(Source: Redd)
Ernest Hemingway walks a London street in the company of RAF officer Roald Dahl in 1944
(Source: Redd)
From 1987-1988 the Washington Bullets had the tallest and shortest players in league history, 7'7 Manute Bol and 5'3 Muggsy Bogues
(Source: Redd)
Florence Thompson, the migrant mother in Dorothea Lange's famous 1936 photo, holds up her likeness in an interview, 1978
(Source: Redd)
The last known photo of extreme cave diver Dave Shaw before going into South Africa's 'Bushman Hole'
(Source: Redd)
Herpetologist Karl P. Schmidt was identifying a snake in 1957, he believed it was a Boomslang, he was bitten and went on to record his own death
(Source: Redd)
