Since anyone could (and still can) say anything on the internet, people began challenging unbelievable and outlandish online claims with the phrase "pics or it didn't happen," shutting down many ridiculous discussions before they even begin.
But real life can be hard to comprehend, too. Especially if we're talking about long gone days. So in an attempt to forestall all the doubts and cut right to the chase, the Instagram account 'Library Of The Bizarre' shares images from the past first, and provides captions for them later.
People behind the account describe it as a "curated collection of the curious history of yonder years." And they're right on the money with those words.
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#1 World War One Soldiers Paying Tribute To The Millions Of Donkeys, Horses, And Mules That Passed Away In The War
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#2 Mr. Rogers Invites A Black Officer To His Show And Asked If He Wanted To Cool His Feet Off In His Mini-Pool
With heavy discrimination still a reality for most black members of society, Fred Rogers took a stand against racial inequality with this simple, yet heartwarming gesture.
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#3 A Female Samurai Warrior, 19th Century
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#4 Brazilian Girl Refusing To Shake Hands With Military Dictator João Figueiredo. This Photo Was Taken In 1979
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#5 How Did You Think All These Pictures Were Taken? 1909
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#6 Black Cat Open Casting Call For An Edgar Allen Poe Movie In 1961
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#7 Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter”, December 1899
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#8 In The 1960s, Bars In Istanbul Would Hire Someone To Carry Drunk People Back To Their Homes In Baskets
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#9 David Jones (Aka David Bowie) Stepping In As A Saxophonist And Lead Singer For The Kon-Rads At A Gig In South London, 1963
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#10 A Young Girl Trying To Cut A Sunbeam. This Picture Was Taken By Adam Diston In 1886
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#11 San Francisco’s Iconic Cliff House, Before It Was Destroyed By A Fire In 1907
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#12 An Engineer Wiring A Primitive Computer Of Ibm In 1958
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#13 Norte Dame Sandbagged During World War One
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#14 A Portrait Of An Interesting Hair Style From 1894
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#15 Haruo Nakajima And Momoko Kochi On The Set Of Godzilla, 1954
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#16 A Boy’s Reaction To Seeing A Television Screen For The Very First Time. This Photo Was Taken In 1948
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#17 A Curious Sea Lion Poses For The Camera
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#18 This Photo Shows The Inside Of An Airplane In 1930
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#19 Helmet Testing In The Year 1912
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#20 New York City Construction Workers
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#21 School Girls In Gas Masks. World War 2
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#22 “Do Not Buy Where You Will Not Be Hired.” - North Carolina, 1960
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#23 Queen Genepil, The Last Queen Of Mongolia. 1920
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#24 Soldiers Returning Home From World War 2. This Photo Was Taken In 1945
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#25 A Man Browses The Books In The Public Library Of Cincinnati. It Was Demolished In 1955
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#26 What You’re Looking At Is The Very First Known Permanent Photograph
In the 1820s, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce set up a device called a ‘camera obscura’, which projected scenes illuminated by sunlight, and positioned it outside his studio window in France. The image was cast on a specially treated pewter plate that produced a copy of the buildings outside.
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#27 Two Children Ignoring The Artwork At The San Francisco Museum Of Art
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#28 A Small Girl Balances On Her Mother’s Hand In Pittsburgh . Taken In The Mid-1900s
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#29 A Portrait Of Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen And His Wife, Fashion Illustrator Dagmar Cohn. This Photo Was Taken In 1947
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#30 Aerial Photography In Edinburgh, Circa 1920
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#31 Roland, A 4,000 Pound Elephant Seal, Getting A Bath From His Handler At The Berlin Zoo. This Photo Was Taken In 1930
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#32 A Helmeted Bulldog Guarding A Family Outside A Block Of Flats During The Blitz. This Photo Was Taken On October 15th, 1940
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#33 Horse Training By Félix Thiollier. Photo Taken In 1899
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#34 Children On A Spiral Staircase In The Newly Built Children’s Library In Clamart, France. Photo Taken In 1965 By Martine Franck
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#35 A Victorian Home Being Moved By Boat In Tiburon, California, In 1957
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#36 The Unbroken Seal On King Tutankhamen’s Tomb, Which Stayed Untouched For 3,245 Years Before Being Excavated In 1922
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#37 A Man Night Fishing Off The Coast Of Hawaii, 1948
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#38 The 1944 Eruption Of Mount Vesuvius
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#39 A Policeman In Daytime Directing Traffic During The "Great Smog Of London". This Photo Was Taken In 1952
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#40 A Crowd In Time Square, New York City Celebrating The Surrender Of Germany In World War 2. This Photo Was Taken On May 7th, 1945
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#41 A Photo Of A Japanese Samurai Archer Taken In 1870
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#42 A French Women Pours Cider For A British Gunner In Lisieux, France, 22 August 1944
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#43 In The Late 1930s, Budapest Tried To Combat Their High Suicide Rates By Enacting A “Smile Club”: A Club That Taught People To Smile
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#44 Performance Art From The 1970s
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