The Bizarre and Dangerous Beauty Trends of Ancient Times

The Vibrating Belt

This particular moment in history was chock full of lousy weight-loss devices. The 1950s were chock full of vibration themed weight loss machines that were intended to, quite literally, jiggle people into fitness. This did not work, but it was nice and relaxing. 

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The More You Know

  • Sixty percent of the World’s lakes (three million total) are located in Canada.
  • The fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was 253 miles per hour.
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
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