These Newly-Colorized Historical Photos Reveal Shocking Things

"West Meets East"

These two German brothers were separated by the Berlin Wall. They got to reunite during 1963's border pass agreement. However, it took 25 more years after this photo for the wall to permanently come down.

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The More You Know

  • 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.
  • Roman fathers could sell their kids into slavery – but only three times.
  • Between 1900 and 1920, tug of war was an Olympic event.
  • Martin Luther King Jr and Anne Frank were born in the same year.
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