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

The Final Public Execution

The last-ever public execution in the United States took place on August 14, 1936. Rainey Bethea was hanged in the town square.

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The More You Know

  • Henry VIII knighted all four of his “Grooms of Stool” — the people in charge of wiping his butt for him.
  • Ice age Britons used skulls of the dead as cups.
  • Dentures used to be made from the teeth of dead soldiers.
  • Women couldn’t apply for credit at a bank until 1974.
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