r/interesting • u/Green____cat • Sep 07 '24
HISTORY CIA revealed a "heart attack" gun in 1975. A battery operated gun which fired a dart of frozen water & shellfish toxin. Once inside the body it would melt leaving only a small red mark on the victim where it entered. The official cause of death would always be a heart attack.
r/interesting • u/Green____cat • Sep 24 '24
HISTORY Gold depository at the New York federal reserve in 1959
r/interesting • u/talelkyb • Apr 29 '24
HISTORY dude did a face reveal when face reveal were even a thing
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r/interesting • u/mysecret_wildside • 11d ago
HISTORY A mother and her 8 sons who all served and all made it home.
r/interesting • u/usernamenotfound701 • Oct 16 '24
HISTORY When Israeli President Chaim Weizmann died in 1952, Einstein was asked to be Israel's second president, but he declined
r/interesting • u/Green____cat • Oct 04 '24
HISTORY In 1976, Shavarsh Karapetyan, an Armenian Olympic swimmer, saves 20 people trapped in a bus that sank 80' offshore. It took him several hours to save them all, and he suffered injuries that put him in the hospital for 45 days—it ended his Olympic career.
r/interesting • u/sugarhighsweetie • 27d ago
HISTORY Meet Paul Alexander, the man who has been using an iron lung machine for almost 70 long years.
r/interesting • u/Greedy-Vegetable-466 • Nov 21 '24
HISTORY The first flowers brought to princess Diana after her accident vs. the next day
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r/interesting • u/Green____cat • Jun 05 '24
HISTORY A 37-year timelapse of Earth
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r/interesting • u/Soloflow786 • Oct 23 '24
HISTORY Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults. I like to remember this every Jan 27th.
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r/interesting • u/Lazy_raichu36 • Nov 09 '24
HISTORY First photo ever taken
Regarded as the first photo ever taken, this image of a French countryside was achieved when Joseph Nicephore Niepce placed a thin coating of light-sensitive phosphorous derivative on a pewter plate and then placed the plate in a camera obscura and set in on a windowsill for a long exposure.
r/interesting • u/Green____cat • Oct 30 '24
HISTORY In 1951, a 66 year old man wasn’t allowed to enter a 1800km (1118 miles) long bicycle race because of being "too old". He showed up anyways and won the race by biking for days without sleep. He got the nickname ”Grandpa Steel”.
r/interesting • u/Green____cat • Sep 26 '24
HISTORY A 3000 year old perfectly preserved sword that was found in Germany
r/interesting • u/Extreme_Echo_7633 • Apr 28 '24
HISTORY In 1967, Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight boxing championship after refusing to be inducted into the U.S. Army.
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r/interesting • u/SouL145 • Oct 01 '24
HISTORY In 1996 Ukraine handed over nuclear weapons to Russia in exchange that they would not be threatened
r/interesting • u/drinkdowntheccp • Nov 12 '23
HISTORY Footage of Londoners in 1931
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r/interesting • u/Which_Boysenberry_71 • Nov 03 '24
HISTORY A 10MB hard drive from the 60s.
r/interesting • u/Ireneahm • Jun 18 '24
HISTORY Competitive cycling, nearly a century ago
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r/interesting • u/Green____cat • Sep 23 '24
HISTORY One of the four heads made with cotton, soap and human hair placed by Alcatraz prisoners in their beds to help their escape in 1962.
r/interesting • u/spookycooki • Nov 18 '23
HISTORY World war 1 veterans; Shell shock sequels and war neurosis,1918. Colourised and upscaled footage.
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r/interesting • u/VelvetFluff • Oct 09 '24
HISTORY The Robot Chess Player Scam
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r/interesting • u/drinkdowntheccp • Oct 24 '23
HISTORY 120 years ago, another world
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r/interesting • u/KennethSweet • Jul 11 '23
HISTORY A Chippewa Indian Named John Smith Who Lived In The Woods Near Cass Lake, Minnesota Claimed To Be 137 Years Old Before He Died In 1922. Photo Taken In 1915.
r/interesting • u/Soloflow786 • Oct 28 '24
HISTORY By digging such pits, people in Arusha, Tanzania, have managed to transform a desert area into a grassland
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