20 shocking historical facts

Some historical facts are not well known to the common man. The fact is that they are either not accepted to talk about, or they are under a big secret for a long time. Website I have prepared for the reader a selection of photos that can complement or completely turn your idea of world history!

The founders of Adidas and Puma Rudolf and Adolf Dassler are brothers. But they hated each other so much that they didn't talk for the rest of their lives

Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States, once sent a jacket to the dry cleaner, in whose pocket was a piece of paper with codes for launching nuclear weapons.



This senior stoker from the British battleship Rodney became a prototype for the creation of the main character of the cartoon Popeye



In the autumn of 1965, Yuri Gagarin was presented with a Matra Bonnet Djet VS after he became interested in it at the Paris Motor Show .



Snow height in the winter of 1969 on Sakhalin



In this photo gathered together all the outstanding scientists of the late nineteenth — early twentieth century



September 10, 1996 in St. Petersburg was held a protest against the opening of McDonald’s



The last Tsar of Russia Nicholas II and King of England George V were cousins



During the siege of Leningrad, food supplies were brought over the ice of Lake Ladoga .



One Jewish prisoner carved the following words on the wall of his cell in a concentration camp: "If God exists, he will have to beg for my forgiveness"



"Bomb for peace is like having sex for virginity" is a famous slogan used by hippies during the protests of .



That in the middle of the twentieth century, that in our days - the situation with communication of people on the subway or on the train remains unchanged



In 1954, this was what swimsuits looked like. Today, a lot of girls would not hesitate to wear this to a party!



Full version of the famous photo of Albert Einstein. Journalist asks physicist to show smart face



In the nineteenth century, with the help of such a gun, birds were hunted, one shot from it could shoot about fifty ducks



Of the 12 dogs on the Titanic, only these survived the shipwreck.



This is what the first Mercedes car looked like.



100 years ago, cough syrup included chloroform, alcohol, hemp and morphine sulfate



A boy rejoices in shoes received as a gift from the Red Cross, 1946



In the photo - participants of a rally in support of Hitler's policy in 1937. Eight years from now, they'll all deny that they were involved in this .



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