Learninghistorycan be fascinating. But history books don’t always have all the information. Some interesting nuggets and fun facts can slip through the cracks and we miss out on intriguing historical facts.Luckily, there are pages like the History Everydayaccounton Instagram. It’s a place for rarely-seen but fascinatinghistorical pictures. With its 354k followers, their mission is to encourage discussion and debate about iconic and controversial historical events. Curious to see what a Mongolian shaman looks like and what is “The Descent of Mombrone?” Scroll down and see for yourself!To know more about learning the lesser-known facts of history,Bored Pandareached out to the creators ofFootnoting History, a podcast that focuses on overlooked and underappreciated areas of history. We chatted with Christine Caccipuoti and Kristin Uscinski about how they find overlooked historical moments and why they’re so important. Read their insights below!This post may includeaffiliate links.

Learninghistorycan be fascinating. But history books don’t always have all the information. Some interesting nuggets and fun facts can slip through the cracks and we miss out on intriguing historical facts.

Luckily, there are pages like the History Everydayaccounton Instagram. It’s a place for rarely-seen but fascinatinghistorical pictures. With its 354k followers, their mission is to encourage discussion and debate about iconic and controversial historical events. Curious to see what a Mongolian shaman looks like and what is “The Descent of Mombrone?” Scroll down and see for yourself!

To know more about learning the lesser-known facts of history,Bored Pandareached out to the creators ofFootnoting History, a podcast that focuses on overlooked and underappreciated areas of history. We chatted with Christine Caccipuoti and Kristin Uscinski about how they find overlooked historical moments and why they’re so important. Read their insights below!

This post may includeaffiliate links.

Irena Sendler (1910-2008) Helped Smuggle Jewish Children Out Of The Warsaw Ghetto During Ww2, Providing Them With False Identity Documents And Shelter With Willing Polish Families Or In Orphanages And Other Care Facilities, Saving Those Children From The Holocaust

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At that precise moment, photographer Jack Bradley froze the scene in a frame from behind the lens. The photo was published in the February 1974 edition of Reader’s Digest, in the article “Unforgettable moments caught on film”.

The Exact Moment When 5 Year Old Harold Whittles, Born Deaf, Hears For The First Time After Being Fitted With A Hearing Aid

Marilyn Monroe Visiting Injured Troops In Japan In 1954. This Soldier Had Broken His Back And Had To Lie Face Down During The Initial Recovery Phase

Kristin and Christine, the creators of Footnoting History, are both professional historians, both with degrees in Medieval History. In the podcast, they cover the lesser-knownhistory factsthat excite them, in the hopes that they will be exciting to their audience as well.The team at Footnoting History has covered such topics as the Jumping the Rope wedding tradition and how archaeologists reconstructed the face of 11-year-old Myrtis from Ancient Athens. Christine and Kristin told us how they find these unknown nuggets of history for their podcast. “If you keep your eyes open, hidden and overlookedhistorical momentsare everywhere!,” they told Bored Panda.

Kristin and Christine, the creators of Footnoting History, are both professional historians, both with degrees in Medieval History. In the podcast, they cover the lesser-knownhistory factsthat excite them, in the hopes that they will be exciting to their audience as well.

The team at Footnoting History has covered such topics as the Jumping the Rope wedding tradition and how archaeologists reconstructed the face of 11-year-old Myrtis from Ancient Athens. Christine and Kristin told us how they find these unknown nuggets of history for their podcast. “If you keep your eyes open, hidden and overlookedhistorical momentsare everywhere!,” they told Bored Panda.

His assistant can be seen sleeping in the corner. The bottom photo shows the still living patient, Tadeusz Zitkevits, 25 years later. The patient died in 2017, 30 years after the surgery and outliving Dr. Religa who gave him a new heart (he passed away in 2009).

The Top Photo Shows Heart Surgeon Dr. Zbigniew Religa Resting After Performing The First Successful Heart Transplant In Poland In 1987, Which Took 23 Hours

Inuk Man Teaches A Boy How To Shoot A Bow And Arrow, Circa 1920

Iranian University Students Before The Islamic Revolution, 1971

Protesting against Soviet oppression and their desire to escape communism.

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A Blind Muslim Named Muhammad Carrying His Best Friend, A Paralyzed Christian With Dwarfism Named Samir, In Damascus, 1889

The O’halloran Sisters Who Fended Off The Officers Evicting Their Family During The Irish Land War, 1887

Sometimes, historical dramas or novels can push people to know more about the characters they’re watching/reading about. This happened to Christine, for example. As a fan of Sharon Kay Penman’s novels, she decided to pursue her Master’s degree in Medieval History.

Their names from top left horizontally to bottom right:1. Standing Bull2. Bear who looks back running3. Has the big white horse4. White tail5. Liver bear6. Little thunder7. Bull dog8. High hawk9. Lame10. Eagle pipe

A Portrait Of 10 Chiefs Taken In 1891

George And Willie Muse, Two African American Brothers Who Were Kidnapped As Children In 1899 And Forced To Perform As Sideshow Attractions Because They Were Albinos

A Mother With Her 8 Sons, All Served In Ww2, All Came Home

“If you’ve got an interest in historical dramas or historical novels, definitely look up the real events and people that inspire them,” the creators say. “Often, things that are dramatized are even more dramatic in real life. And, if you are already reading history books – always check the footnotes and endnotes.”

Māori Woman With Her Son In 1890s New Zealand

A Heart Breaking Moment, Saved In An Ss Picture, Of Hungarian Jews At Auschwitz II-Birkenau

Father And Son Crying As They Say Goodbye To Their Relatives Who Are Boarding A Boat To Buenos Aires In Search Of A Better Life During The Economic Hardship In Spain. The Photographer Manuel Ferrol Took This Picture In 1957 At The Port Of A Coruña

“Often,historianswill find tons of fascinating stories that don’t get discussed and that don’t fit into the main narrative of their books, but they’ll still include them,” Kristin and Christine tell Bored Panda. “Those little nuggets can provide amazing insight into historical moments that don’t always get discussed.”

Hand Belonging To An X-Ray Technician At The Royal London Hospital, Which Shows The Damage From Radiation Exposure, 1900

A Geisha After Washing Her Hair, Before Styling It, In Japan In 1905

Star Wars Cast Out Of Costumes In 1977

But learning obscure historical facts is not just for the sake of it. And not to throw it into someone’s face to impress them. “The more we can learn about our world and how it got to be the way it is, the better,” the creators of Footnoting History believe. “Life is full of nuance and history is the same way. It’s a great thing to understand the basic narrative of main events, but those main events didn’t happen in a vacuum.”

Severe Case Of Syphilis In The Early 1900s Before The Discovery Of Penicillin, Which Would Become The Main Treatment

Victory Day (May 9th) is a holiday that commemorates the Soviet victory over Germany in 1945.

Soviet War Veteran Next To An Eternal Flame On The Anniversary Of Victory Day, 1966

Young Couple In The 1940s

He was studying there and was tasked to accompany the Royals who were on a visit. It was their first 1:1 meeting.

18 Year Old Philip Meeting Then 13 Year Old Princess Elizabeth At The Royal Navy College In Dartmouth In 1939

Lunch Time At A California School In 1942 Taken Shortly Before Americans Of Japanese Descent (Including The Boy Pictured) Were Taken And Imprisoned In Concentration Camps Across The US For The Duration Of WW2

Acrobat Luisita Leers, Taken Circa 1929

This Is How Passengers Would Board Airships. This Photo Shows British Airship R101 In 1930

Amasunzu Is An Elaborate Hairstyle Traditionally Worn By Rwandan Men And Unmarried Women, With The Hair Styled Into Crests

Union (Left) And Confederate (Right) Veterans Meet For The Battle Of Gettysburg’s 50th Anniversary In 1913

That’s why the pair can’t pick just one piece of history that’s the most important in their opinion. “We think it’s all important. We encourage people to always learn about the history of where they live and also the history of a culture outside of their own,” the creators of Footnoting History say.

Then And Now, 1970 And 2024. A Family Recreates This Photo 54 Years Later In Salford, England

Bedouin Mother From Saudi Arabia In 1948

Trapeze Artist Miss Mara Hitting An Arm Workout In 1958

If you want to learn more obscure history facts, be sure to head toFootnoting Historywhere all their episodes are available with captions. And if you’re a fan of using YouTube, check them out on theirchannel.

Princeton Sophomores Pose For A Photo After A Snowball Fight In 1893

Crow Native Americans Watch The Rodeo In Montana, 1941

Tarring and feathering is a form of public torture and punishment used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge. The victim would be stripped naked, or stripped to the waist. Wood tar (sometimes hot) was then either poured or painted onto the person while they were immobilized. The victim then either had feathers thrown on them or was rolled around on a pile of feathers so that they stuck to the tar.

A Man Who Has Been Badly Tarred And Feathered Seeks Medical Help, Date Unknown

Miner From England Sits Down For Dinner With His Wife After A Long Day At Work In 1937

Annie, seven, and one year old Nellie, sit on a sacking outside their house in London. They were among ten children born to single mother Annie Daniels. Five of their siblings died in childhood.

Victorian Poverty, 1900

The Michelin Man is white because rubber tires are naturally a grey/white color. It was not until 1912 that carbon chemicals were mixed into the white tires which turned them black. The change was structural, not aesthetic. By adding carbon, tires became more durable.⁣ Michelin also began reviewing restaurants so that more people would travel further distances in their cars to eat at these restaurants. This in turn would wear down their tires faster, and force them to buy more.⁣ The Michelin star system goes up to three and has the following criteria: 1 star: “A very good restaurant in its category”. 2 stars: “Excellent cooking, worth a detour”. 3 stars: “Exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey”.

The Original Michelin Man From 1898

This photograph was taken around 1860, 45 years after the Battle of Waterloo.

This Is A Picture Of A British Veteran Of The Napoleonic Wars, Posing With His Wife

A Dutch Couple Take A Stroll Along The Beach In The 1930s

The car had been reported stolen 4 years prior. Later it transpired that the owner, plumber Rosendo Cruz, apparently conspired to commit insurance fraud with the supposed thieves. They were supposed to take the Ferrari to a chop shop to be broken up for parts, but instead hid it, intending to dig it up later, and forgot where it was buried.

In 1978 A Ferrari Was Discovered Buried In A Yard In Los Angeles After Children Playing In The Dirt Alerted Police About Something Shallowly Buried

Robert Mcgee, Scalped At The Age Of 14 In 1864

Cambridge Students In The 1920s

They were attending the opening of the Jewish Pavilion at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York in 1939.

Albert Einstein With His Step Daughter Margot Einstein Sitting On His Lap

Parents Taking Their Baby Ice Skating In The 1930s

A Schoolgirl Photographed At The 1968 May Day Demonstration In Lviv, Ukraine, By Pavliuk Ilya

Mongolian Shaman In 1909

From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 million immigrants arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey were processed there under federal law.

Dutch Children After Arriving At Ellis Island, Circa 1900

It leads to excess growth hormone which causes enlargement of the forehead, jaw, and nose.

Mary Ann Bevan (1874 - 1933) Was An English Woman Who Toured The Sideshow Circuit As “The Ugliest Woman In The World” After Her Appearance Drastically Changed Due To Developing Acromegaly

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She was born with hypertrichosis lanuginosa, which is an abnormal amount of hair growth in a certain area of the body

Alice Doherty, Photographed Here As A Teenager With Her Family In The Early 1900s

Egyptian Street Vendor Selling Mummies In 1865

Actress Marlene Dietrich Kisses A Soldier Returning From Ww2 In 1945

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A Photo Of A Detroit Family Titled “Factory Hand At Ford” Which Was Taken By A Visitor From Japan, 1954

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He is best known for this expedition that claimed to be the first to reach the geographic North Pole. However, this claim has been disputed and in 1989 British explorer Wally Herbert concluded Peary did not reach the pole, although he may have come within 60 miles.

Explorer Robert Peary Standing In The Deck Of The Ss Roosevelt Before Setting Off On His Expedition To The North Pole, Circa 1908

College Dorm At The University Of Illinois In 1910

After two days of constant fighting at the Battle of Eniwetok. Miller would be killed in a firefight during the invasion of Ebon Atoll a month later on the 24th March 1944.

The Iconic American Wartime Photograph “The Thousand Yard Stare” Showing Exhausted 19 Year Old Us Marine Private Theodore J. Miller In February 1944

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The iron lung is a large horizontal cylinder designed to stimulate breathing in patients who have lost control of their respiratory muscles. The patient’s head is exposed outside the cylinder, while the body is sealed inside. Air pressure inside the cylinder is cycled to facilitate inhalation and exhalation

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On The Beach In Manhattan, 1970s

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Left for the dead the Union soldier regained consciousness and ended up living for another 54 years. For 31 of those years Miller still had bullet fragments lodged in his head.

American Civil War Veteran Jacob Miller, Photographed In 1911, With A Bullet Hole In His Head That He Obtained During The Battle Of Chickamauga Whilst Fighting For The Union Army In 1863

78 Year Old Robert T. Lincoln (Son Of Abraham Lincoln) Is Helped Up The Steps At The Dedication Of The Lincoln Memorial In Washington D.c. In May 1922

This unique design allowed for 30 Chevrolets to fit in each railroad car, compared to 18 when they were loaded in a conventional horizontal way.

The Chevrolet Vega Being Loaded Vertically On A Specially Designed Railroad Car Called The Vert-A-Pac In 1971

Summertime In Hermosa Beach, California 1974

Wooden Leg (1858 - 1940) Photographed Holding A Rifle At Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Montana In 1927

In 1941, he made the neck stretcher shown in the photo. When measured, he still lacked an eighth of an inch. He hit himself on head to make a bump and still couldn’t make it.

Gino Franceschini, New York City, Was Only 5 Feet 6-1/4 Inches Tall And Had To Be 5 Feet 7 Inches To Qualify As A Fireman

American Troops On Board A Landing Craft Heading For The Beaches At Oran, Algeria During The WW2 Operation Torch, November 1942

American Soldier At Saddam Hussein’s Palace, Iraq, 2003

Robert F. Kennedy Stopping For A Meal At A Drive-In In Bluefield, West Virginia During The Campaign For His Brother John F. Kennedy To Become The 1960 Democratic Presidential Nominee

Jacques was attached to Jean’s chest and abdomen, featuring two underdeveloped arms, legs, and a partially developed head integrated into Jean’s body. Relying completely on Jean for circulatory and nervous system support, Jacques was an integral part of Jean’s life. Remarkably, Jean led a relatively typical life, having a successful marriage and fathering four healthy children.

In The Early 20th Century, Jean Libbera, Also Referred To As The “Double-Bodied Man,” Was A Sideshow Performer Alongside His Parasitic Twin, Jacques

Masaichi first became interested in tattoos when he noticed that the tattoo ink in the skin killed the skin lesions of syphilis. This led him in 1926 to study the art of Japanese tattoo (Irezumi). He would lead autopsies on corpses, removing the skin and conducting research on methods to preserve the skin. In the following years he collected an archive of about 2000 “hides”. Masaichi put some of his unique collection of tattooed hides and groomed skin that had been outsourced in the early 1940s in an air raid shelter. Since they were protected from the effects of WW2 they survived the bombings. These skins are all that remains of his collection.

Japanese Physician And Pathologist Fukushi Masaichi Collected Tattooed Skin From The Dead During The Early 20th Century

Nerissa Jane Irene Bowes-Lyon (1919-1986, left) and Katherine Juliet Bowes-Lyon (1926-2014, right) were the daughters of John Herbert Bowes-Lyon, the brother of the Queen’s mother. Neither of the cousins ever learned how to talk. The 1963 edition of Burke’s Peerage listed Nerissa and Katherine as having died in 1940 and 1961 respectively, but in 1987 it was revealed that this was false and they had been placed in Earlswood Hospital for mentally disabled people in 1941. In the terminology of the era, both were classified as “imbeciles”. The sisters received no money from the family other than £125 paid to Earlswood each year, and no family members attended their funeral.

The Mentally Disabled Hidden Cousins Of Queen Elizabeth II

German Ww1 Veteran Hans Lange Holds A Portrait Of Himself As A 19 Year Old In 1918

Manhattan In 1931

Miners 850 Feet Deep In The Hubert Mine, Nevadaville, Colorado 1895

The Children Of A Farmer In The Ozarks, Missouri, Photographed By John Vachon In May 1940

Spanish Heavyweight Boxer Paulino Uzcudun, Nicknamed “The Basque Woodchopper”, Photographed In The Early 1900s. In His Youth He Was A Competitive Wood Chopper

Photo taken mid to late 19th century.

Princess Fatemeh Khanum “’esmat Al-Dowleh”, Princess Of The Royal Persian Family

This restored photo was taken in 1880.

Billy The Kid, An American Outlaw And Gunfighter Of The Old West Who Is Alleged To Have Killed 21 Men Before He Was Shot And Killed At The Age Of 21

In order to graduate from the Italian Cavalry School in Pinerolo near Turin, every officer was required to successfully perform the 20 feet ‘descent of Mombrone’, the name of an old ruined castle built upon the hill, some 3 miles from Pinerolo.

Italian Officer Performing The ‘Descent Of Mombrone’ In The Italian Cavalry School Of Pinerolo, 1906

A Hippie Girl Selling Roadside Flowers In Oklahoma, 1973

Boxer Fred Bretonnel In 1920 At The Age Of 15 And In 1928 At The Age Of 23

Lewis Powell, A Conspirator In The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln, In Wrist Irons Aboard The Uss Saugus In 1865

Ellis Island Immigrants Circa 1910. At The Time Of This Photo The Child Was 11 Months Old And Weighed 55 Pounds (25 Kilograms)

The accident caused the death of fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building) and damage estimated at $1 million (equivalent to about $14 million in 2020).

These Photos Shows The Aftermath Of The July 28th 1945 Crash Of A B-25 Mitchell Bomber From The Us Army Air Forces Into The Empire State Building In New York City Between The 78th And 80th Floors, While Flying In Thick Fog

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Wilfred And Ruby Westwood, Circa 1900

He had spent the previous 7 years at Alcatraz serving a sentence for tax evasion. Al Capone was paroled shortly after due to his deteriorating health, eventually passing away in 1947 after his heart failed as a result of apoplexy.

The Mugshot Of American Gangster Al Capone On The Day He Arrived At The Federal Correctional Institution On Terminal Island In California, 1939

Invented in the 1940s, they were fashionable in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, before softer, more natural looking bras became fashionable again.

Bullet Bra In The 1950s

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