Doctored Photos That Changed History

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This photo of the Russian flag being raised over a battle-torn town raised eyebrows when a magazine editor took a look at it. A photographer sent this photo around to get it into circulation, and an editor of Ogoniok, a magazine in Russia, took one look at it and noticed a problem with one soldier's watch...

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The More You Know

  • Victorians Often Posed With Their Dead Relatives In Photographs
  • Up to 4% of the sand on Normandy beach is made up of shrapnel from D-Day that has broken down.
  • Jeannette Rankin was elected to Congress four years before women could even vote.
  • Ice age Britons used skulls of the dead as cups.
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