Never-Before-Seen Photos of the Most Chilling Moments in History

Hydrogen Bomb

Have you ever seen a mushroom cloud in real life? Hopefully not. This photo captured the aftermath of a hydrogen bomb detonated at the Bikini Atoll. Between 1946 and 1958, 23 other nuclear devices were tested by the United States.

In the 1940s, people didn’t know what the Axis powers had planned. They believed that gas attacks could occur at any moment. Although it never came to fruition, British civilians made to sure stay prepared by donning gas masks throughout the period.

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The More You Know

  • Cleopatra was fluent in 9 languages. They were Ancient Greek, Ancient Iranian, Ancient Parthian, Syriac, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Arabic and Troglodyte.
  • Before alarm clocks were invented, knocker-uppers was a profession where he had to go and wake up by knocking on the doors of the townsman’s houses.
  • Cleopatra Was Not Egyptian
  • The Leaning Tower of Pisa never stood up straight.
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