These Vintage Ads Would Instantly Be Banned Today

Hopefully Not

The "manly art" of domestic violence. This cartoon is especially disturbing. Why is she smiling?

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The More You Know

  • Nintendo was founded in 1889. Before it sold video games, the Japanese company specialized in playing cards.
  • A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time.
  • A typical cloud weighs around 1.1 million pounds.
  • If you take all the letters from the word "wizard" and swap them with opposite letters (a->z, b->y), it spells wizard backwards.
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