These Newly-Colorized Historical Photos Reveal Shocking Things

Exotic Dancer Under Arrest

This exotic dancer was arrested in the early 1980s, so to thank the judge for her sentence, she flashed him. The photo actually ended up being picked up by Playboy and was captured by the Tampa Bay Times staff photographer Jim Damaske. 

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The More You Know

  • In the thirteenth century, Pope Gregory IX basically declared war on the cats of the world.
  • In 1912, a Paris orphanage held a raffle to raise money—the prizes were live babies.
  • A writer predicted how the Titanic would sink in 1898, 13 years before it was even built.
  • Jeannette Rankin was elected to Congress four years before women could even vote.
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