Warning: These Images Change Everything We Know!

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]A cigarette holder for nudists, England, 1938.

[00:00:07]HMS Hermione ship cat Convoy had his own hammock.

[00:00:12]He died with 87 crew members when the ship was torpedoed on June 16th, 1942.

[00:00:21]A British doctor treats female concentration camp survivors for lice, helping them begin the long road to recovery.

[00:00:31]Chinese people celebrate the successful test of the first atomic bomb, 1964.

[00:00:39]British fascist Oswald Mosley on an attempted march through Manchester, 1962.

[00:00:48]In 1979, Brazil's military president João Figueiredo reached out to a 5-year-old girl for a propaganda photo op, but she refused. The shot became an iconic symbol of resistance against the dictatorship.

[00:01:05]Mary Connors, the human nucleus, flies over the Avon River in Bristol, England, 1974.

[00:01:15]Brigitte Bardot became one of the greatest female icons of the 20th century, and at the World's Fair in the Vatican Pavilion, her photo was displayed as a symbol of sin.

[00:01:28]Beauty pageant in Cliftonville, 1936.

[00:01:33]To ensure jury objectivity, the contestants' faces were covered.

[00:01:40]An inscription on the wall, "Mom, Dad, and I come here every day and wait for you."

[00:01:46]Signed below, "Your son, Slava."

[00:01:50]During World War II, USSR, 1943.

[00:01:57]Prosthetic big toe found in the tomb of Tabaketenmut, Thebes Necropolis.

[00:02:05]1865 portrait of Brigham Young, second president of the Church of Latter-day Saints, founder of Salt Lake City and the first governor of Utah.

[00:02:16]Young had 57 children with 56 different wives.

[00:02:22]The Holocaust memorial in Budapest.

[00:02:26]At this location, Jews were ordered to remove their shoes before they were shot into the Danube River.

[00:02:34]US Lieutenant Jeremy Shales plays baseball inside one of Saddam Hussein's palaces, Iraq. 2003.

[00:02:45]People trying to board a plane during the evacuation of American troops, South Vietnam, 1975.

[00:02:55]Rome, 1964.

[00:02:58]This is a local lost and found office.

[00:03:00]On the shelves, lost umbrellas.

[00:03:03]It's very interesting how the owner can recognize their umbrella in such abundance.

[00:03:10]The Republic of South Africa is the world leader in the number of rapes.

[00:03:15]Every fourth man in this country is a [music] rapist.

[00:03:18]A woman born in South Africa is more likely to be raped than to learn to read.

[00:03:26]First German soldiers advance toward the USSR border. June 22nd, 1941.

[00:03:36]In the spring of 1933, thousands of Gulag prisoners were put on Nazinsky Island without food to build a settlement.

[00:03:44]By summer, only 2,200 of the 6,700 had survived.

[00:03:49]There was famine and cannibalism, USSR.

[00:03:55]Harsh canned vodka for soldiers, 1950.

[00:04:01]Albert Einstein in his free time, 1939.

[00:04:08]Cossacks trained to overcome obstacles on horseback, 1910.

[00:04:15]Boston blizzard of 1978, USA.

[00:04:19]75 people died, over 4,000 were injured during the relentless 3-day storm.

[00:04:28]The first feminists, 1911.

[00:04:33]In this touching photo from 1945, a little girl from France kisses an American soldier on the cheek on Valentine's Day.

[00:04:42]In my opinion, the photograph with the American soldier is quite ambiguous.

[00:04:46]If we recall that more than half of the civilian casualties in France during World War II were the result of American and British bombings.

[00:04:57]The moment of the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York, USA, September 11th, 2001.

[00:05:08]Palestinians with an olive branch try to start a conversation with Israeli border guards, West Bank, >> [music] >> 1991.

[00:05:19]Wounded British soldiers with trophy German helmets, France, 1916.

[00:05:27]A dead miner's canary, 1875.

[00:05:31]Canaries were brought into mines because they were the first to react to methane leaks, warning miners of danger.

[00:05:40]Miss Italy knocks out Miss Sweden in an international women's boxing match in Stockholm, 1949.

[00:05:50]This is a bulletproof vest from 1881 used in combat and blocked 18 bullets.

[00:05:58]1930s, Germany.

[00:06:01]A firefighter tests the latest invention, a suit that protects him from fire using jets of water coming from the top of the helmet.

[00:06:12]Julius Dock at the Chicago police station, 1906.

[00:06:17]The criminal disguised as a woman was hiding from the police, but it seems he still made a mistake somewhere.

[00:06:26]Nuns at a casino at slot machines, Australia, 1971.

[00:06:33]In 1986, pilot Alexander Akimov bet he could land a passenger plane blind using only instruments.

[00:06:41]He lost the bet.

[00:06:43]The plane crashed and burst into flames, killing 70 people.

[00:06:48]The pilot survived and was sentenced to just 6 years in prison.

[00:06:54]Photo related to HIV awareness by the CDC historical archives that was removed by Trump.

[00:07:00]Thanks.

[00:07:04]A husband and wife and their 11 children dressed for Palm Sunday, 1954.

[00:07:12]The new old drive three-wheeled bicycle, tricycle, 1882.

[00:07:20]Children, prisoners of Auschwitz concentration camp, show their camp numbers tattooed on their arms, Poland, 1945.

[00:07:34]Watching television in a movie theater in the city of Carpi, Italy, 1956.

[00:07:44]A coffin in a tree in the taiga, USSR, 1927.

[00:07:50]Air burial is one of the oldest religious funeral rights.

[00:07:56]French women who had connections with Germans were publicly humiliated as traitors.

[00:08:01]The irony is that France itself capitulated in 43 days, but it was the women who were portrayed as traitors.

[00:08:10]A soldier from the 173rd Airborne Brigade, South Vietnam.

[00:08:18]Lava flows engulfing a village west of Vesuvius, 1944.

[00:08:26]A soldier uses a slave as a seat.

[00:08:29]USA, 1962 According to the 1897 census, only about 25% of the population of Russia had surnames.

[00:08:41]Also, many people did not know their age.

[00:08:47]Escape by swimming.

[00:08:49]1966 A mother and children from South Vietnam attempt to swim across a river to escape an attack during Operation Piranha.

[00:08:59]When the photo won a Pulitzer Prize, photographer Kyuchi Sawada went searching for the family in the photo and ultimately gave them half of the winnings.

[00:09:10]Back in the 15th century, moose were used as mounts in the Swedish army.

[00:09:15]Meanwhile, in Russia, a decree banned riding moose in cities because they kept knocking people over.

[00:09:24]A rare photo of people enjoying casual conversation on September 11th, 2001.

[00:09:32]Hoof print boots used during the prohibition era in the United States.

[00:09:37]Alcohol vendors wore this type of footwear so they couldn't be tracked by regular shoe prints.

[00:09:45]A man stole a military tank from the US Army and drove it on the highway in San Diego, USA, 1995.

[00:09:55]A communication device between a driver and passenger, 1970s.

[00:10:02]One of the most influential drug barons in history, Pablo Escobar, at Disneyland. 1981.

[00:10:12]David Hensley collecting donations in 1948 for a new hospital dedicated to treating victims of polio.

[00:10:22]How Formula 1 used to be photographed.

[00:10:24]Around 1960.

[00:10:29]A 1951 photograph from the Korean War shows Chinese soldiers kneeling before Korean troops and pleading for mercy.

[00:10:39]Crowd fights over toilet paper in a Tokyo supermarket, Japan, 1973.

[00:10:48]When boredom strikes at the front, soldiers have to improvise.

[00:10:52]Here, French troops dressed as women entertain their fellow comrades along the Maginot Line, 1940.

[00:11:01]A 25-year-old woman at the grave of her brother who served in the US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2013.

[00:11:11]Robert Earl Hughes was one of the heaviest people in medical history.

[00:11:16]In 1958, at the age of 32, Robert Earl Hughes passed away.

[00:11:22]At the time of his death, he weighed around 450 kg, 1,000 [music] lb.

[00:11:31]One of the rare photos taken on a slave transport ship, 1882.

[00:11:39]In Guam, virgins are forbidden from marrying.

[00:11:42]Therefore, there is a special profession, a deflorator.

[00:11:47]This specialist travels the country and for a fee performs the service of taking girl's virginity.

[00:11:56]Prisoner number 4100 named George [music] Davie.

[00:12:00]The young boy was sentenced to 1 month of hard labor at Wandsworth prison in 1872.

[00:12:06]10-year-old George stole two rabbits.

[00:12:11]In the photo, a crowd of white civilized Americans mocks two participants in the civil rights movement, 1965.

[00:12:22]The Spanish flu killed more people than World War I.

[00:12:28]The execution of opium traders in China, just a few years before the outbreak of the opium wars, 1935.

[00:12:38]Even the poor were too lazy to bend down to pick up thousands and millions of banknotes lying on the street.

[00:12:44]There was nothing to buy with them anyway.

[00:12:48]A friendly conversation between Soviet and German soldiers in September 1939 after the partition of Poland.

[00:12:56]Such photographs were never officially published in the USSR.

[00:13:02]In World War II, Ireland remained neutral.

[00:13:06]Yet Prime Minister Éamon de Valera and President Douglas Hyde personally expressed condolences to the German ambassador on the death of Hitler.

[00:13:17]A bear drawn by the smell of baking rolls in the oven, Russia, Cape Schmidt, 1997.

[00:13:27]A former concentration camp prisoner selects glasses from a pile taken from inmates.

[00:13:33]1945, Poland, Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.

[00:13:41]In the early 20th century, the US Navy decided to fight inappropriate tattoos among sailors and prohibited people with such tattoos from joining.

[00:13:51]This led many young men who didn't want to serve in the Navy to get tattoos of naked women.

[00:13:56]Interestingly, if they later changed their minds, they went back to the tattoo shop to add clothes to their girls.

[00:14:06]Japanese people Listen to the emperor's surrender announcement. Japan, 1945.

[00:14:16]On June 3rd, 1980, due to a computer malfunction that reported a Soviet nuclear attack, the USA declared a nuclear alert.

[00:14:25]For 10 minutes, the world was on the brink of nuclear war.

[00:14:32]German field dentist, World War I.

[00:14:38]Production of night pots made from German helmets Denmark, >> [music] >> 1945 A crawling toy, USA, 1871.

[00:14:51]If you misbehave, it will crawl to you at night.

[00:14:57]Hitler's nephew who fought for the USA during World War II.

[00:15:04]Berlin May 1945 A frenzied elderly woman wanders the street amidst deadly combat.

[00:15:12]Photo from the German archive.

[00:15:16]In 1979, FBI agent Hanson was tasked with finding a Soviet spy.

[00:15:22]The twist was that the spy was Hansen himself.

[00:15:28]A couple shows their newborn children to their grandparents across the Berlin Wall, 1961.

[00:15:37]One of the oldest pieces of evidence of tattoos in history, a Scythian deer tattoo on the mummy of the Altai princess, aged 2,500 years.

[00:15:50]The leader in the number of assassination attempts.

[00:15:53]According to Fidel Castro's head of security, there were 638 assassination attempts on the Cuban leader, mainly by the CIA.

[00:16:05]Mass burning of the paranja veil, Andijan, Uzbekistan, 1927.

[00:16:16]Horse-shaped device used to hold children still during X-rays, >> [music] >> mid-20th century.

[00:16:25]The Endurance ship permanently trapped in Antarctic ice, 1915.

[00:16:33]In 1940, portraits of Adolf Hitler were distributed in a Polish resettlement camp to be hung in apartments.

[00:16:42]An officer with his belongings, 1862.

[00:16:46]Freed slaves were considered contraband or captured property at that time.

[00:16:53]Christmas packages destined for soldiers who have been killed or are missing in action, await return to sender stamps in New York, 1944.

[00:17:06]Special effects in the film industry in the 1960s.

[00:17:12]8-year-old Christian accepts the flag during the the service for his father, who was killed on patrol in Iraq just a few weeks before he was due to return home.

[00:17:24]In 1996 at New Delhi Airport, a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Il-76 collided.

[00:17:36]Both flights were on the same route but in opposite directions and the pilots failed to communicate their intentions in time because they could not speak English.

[00:17:45]The crash killed 349 passengers and crew.

[00:17:52]During the 1927 Tour de France, cyclists were known to smoke cigarettes believing the habit to be a form of performance enhancer for their lungs.

[00:18:04]I'm proud of my gay son, New York, 1974.

[00:18:11]On April 1st, 1915 in the midst of World War I, a French plane appeared over a German camp and dropped what looked like a huge bomb.

[00:18:21]The soldiers scattered waiting for an explosion but none came.

[00:18:26]Instead, a large ball landed bearing the words April fools.

[00:18:35]California physics teacher demonstrating the mechanism of the surfing wave tube, 1970.

[00:18:44]Women gathering firewood, Russian Empire, 1913.

[00:18:52]Pro-Khomeini militia fighters patrol the streets looking for the Arab population, Khorramshahr, Iran, 1979.

[00:19:03]In 2002 in Mecca, 15 girls died in a school fire.

[00:19:08]The religious police prevented firefighters from saving students because they were without traditional dress, niqab and abaya, which led to the high number of casualties.

[00:19:22]A chilling moment frozen [music] in time, just 2 seconds after the atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, 1945.

[00:19:32]Whether this clip sparked joy, anger, or just a bit of annoyance, I want to hear your thoughts below.

[00:19:39]Stick around for part two coming soon.

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