History isn’t just about the past. By learning about those distant people and events, we also understand what shaped the present.

And while nothing will replace sound academic literature, every once in a while, it’s healthy to balance it out with other forms of content, reinvigorating our passion for the subject.

That’s why we at Bored Panda like covering online projects like ‘Weird History‘ or ‘Everyday History Facts.’

This time, we’re inviting you to take a look at ‘Amazing History’, an Instagram account that focuses on the visuals and shares lesser-known historical pictures in an attempt to broaden its followers’ horizons. Here are some of the gems it has shared so far.

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#1 A Reusable Shopping List From The 1920s

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#2 Job Hunting 1930’s

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#3 A German Women With Her All Belonging Sitting Alone In War Ruined Cologne. 1945

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#4 Young Oyster Shuckers, Josie, Six Years Old, Bertha, Six Years Old, Sophie, Ten Years Old, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1912. Work Began At 4 Am. Photo By Lewis Hine

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#5 A Triple Decker Bus. Germany, Berlin, 1926

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#6 US Veterans Of Four Different Wars, That Lived In The Same Town Of Geary, Oklahoma – 1940s

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#7 By The Time Robert Wadlow Turned 8 Years Old, He Was Already Taller Than His Father. Diagnosed With Hyperplasia Of The Pituitary Gland — A Condition That Causes Excessive Growth Due To A High Level Of Human Growth Hormones — Wadlow Stood About 6 Feet Tall As A Child

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#8 1940s Polio Outbreak

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#9 This Is A 392-Year-Old Greenland Shark That Was Recently Discovered In The Arctic Ocean. He’s Been Wandering The Ocean Since The Early 1600s!

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#10 American Aircraft Carrier

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#11 Polish Girl, Lidka, 21, Member Of The Resistance, During Warsaw Uprising 1944. Survived The War, Died In 1993

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#12 On January 19, 1981, Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali Became So Upset When He Found Out That A Vietnam Veteran Was About To Commit Suicide Near His Home, That He Dashed To The Scene In Just Four Minutes. Not Only Did Ali Prevent The Man From Killing Himself, He Also Personally Drove Him To The Hospital

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#13 A Peruvian Elongated Skull With A Metal Plate Surgically Implanted, Estimated To Be From About 2000 Years Ago. The Broken Bone Surrounding The Repair Is Tightly Fused Together Indicating It Was A Successful Surgery

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#14 ‘Girl Sitting On Windowsill’. Photo by William Gale Gedney 1964

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#15 225-Million-Year-Old Petrified Opal Tree Trunk Located In Arizona

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#16 Just Rare In 1964, Ringo Starr Snapped A Photo Of Some High School Students Who Had Skipped Class To See The Beatles During Their First Trip To The United States

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#17 Three-Year-Old Peggy Kennedy, A Polio Patient, Smiles At Therapy Ducks In A Pail Of Water. 1956

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#18 1943 – Last Photo Of The Legendary Nikola Tesla

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#19 This Skeleton Of A Roman Man, Who Was Crushed By A Flying Stone Slab During The Eruption Of Mount Vesuvius Nearly 2000 Years Ago, Was Discovered In May Of 2018

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#20 1920’s Hand Carved Hearse

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#21 Tinder During 1901

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#22 American WWI Veterans At A Reunion, 1978

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#23 In 1895 In Paris, An Express Train Overruns A Buffer Stop, Crosses More Than 30 Meters Of Concourse Before Plummeting Through A Window At Gare Montparnasse

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#24 Hedgehog

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#25 Chief Iron Tail

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#26 Men Of The British Home Guard Stand Watch Over A Crashed Italian Fiat Falco Somewhere In Southern England During Battle Of Britain

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#27 Jacob Miller

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#28 A Cup Of Tea And A Bit Of Peace Back In The 1800s

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#29 Two Brave Armenian Women Pose With Their Rifles Before Going To Battle Against The Ottomans – 1895

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#30 Madam CJ Walker in her Ford

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#31 Princeton University Students Photographed After A Brutal Snowball Fight In 1890

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#32 South Dakota 126 Years Ago. Indian Chiefs Who Had Council With General Miles And Settled The Indian War. 1. Standing Bull, 2. Bear Who Stands And Looks Back, 3. Has The Big White Horse, 4. White Tail, 5. Living Bear, 6. Little Thunder, 7. Bull Dog, 8. High Hawk, 9. Lame, 10. Eagle Pipe

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#33 These Are Titanic Survivors Boarding The Carpathia In 1912….

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#34 Coca Cola In 1906

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#35 Actors-Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach And Lee Van Cliff During The Filming Of “The Good, The Bad And The Ugly”

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#36 In 1976, Shavarsh Karapetyan, An Armenian Olympic Swimmer, Had Just Completed A 12-Mile Run With His Brother When They Saw A Trolley Bus Crash Into A Dam Reservoir

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#37 Frank Lentini, Owner Of 3 Legs, 4 Feet, 16 Toes, And 2 Functioning Sets Of Genitals. (1884-1966)

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#38 Joe Medicine Crow

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#39 1920’s Diving Suit

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#40 This Is How The Head Of A Spear Went Through A Bone During The Roman Gaelic War And It Still Remains In The Bone After 2070 Years Later…

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#41 Country Store On Dirt Road, North Carolina In 1939

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#42 “The Drunk Basket.” In The 1960s, Bars In Istanbul Would Hire Someone To Carry Drunk People Back To Their Homes

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#43 The Mystery Of The Paracas Elongated Skulls. During The 1920s, Peruvian Archaeologist Julio Tello Discovered A Series Of Tombs In Paracas, Peru

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#44 Fossil Trees As Tall As Modern-Day Redwoods Have Been Found In Northern Thailand. This Petrified Trunk Measures 72.2 Meters In Length, Suggesting That The Original Tree Would Have Been Over 100 Meters Tall. Its Approximate Age Is 800,000 Years

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#45 Union Blue And Confederate Gray Veterans Reunite At Gettysburg In The Year 1913 — Standing By “The Bloody Angle” Where Pickett’s Charge Took Place 50 Years Earlier And Over 3,000 Soldiers On Both Sides Lost Their Lives — Now They Clasp Hands Over The Stone Wall As Brothers

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#46 Natives

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#48 Archaeologist And A Child From Pompeii

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#49 A 19th Century Tornado Caught On Camera In Oklahoma,1898!

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#50 Photograph Of The Oldest House In Hamburg,germany,taken In 1898.it Was Built In 1524 And Despite Protests From Locals,was Demolished On The 8 December 1910

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#51 Us Civil War. ( Antitam Then And Now)

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#52 Dracula’s Castle

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#53 Outside Wrigley Field In 1932

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#54 This Is The Rms Queen Elizabeth Pulling Into New York With Returning Us Servicemen In 1945. Finally Ww2 Is Over

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#55 1500 Year Old Tree, Located In South Africa. The Oldest Living Thing On Earth

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#56 50 Years Ago They Tried To Stop Katherine Switzer From Running The Boston Marathon Because She Was A Woman. Last Month, At 70, She Ran It Again Wearing The Same Number

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#57 This Is Known As One Of Medicine’s Most Incredible Moments. In 1922, At The University Of Toronto, Scientists Went To A Hospital Ward With Children Who Were Comatose And Dying From Diabetic Keto-Acidosis

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#58 Ww2 Relic Of An Unfortunate Soldier Found On Eastern Front

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#59 On This Day 1950, Timothy Evans Was Executed By Hanging. He Was Later Granted A Posthumous Pardon. The Case Is Now Acknowledged As A Major Miscarriage Of Justice And Was Instrumental In The Abolition Of Capital Punishment In The United Kingdom In 1965. Timothy John Evans From Merthyr Was Tried And Convicted Of Murdering His Wife And Infant Daughter At Their Residence In Notting Hill, London And Sentenced To Death By Hanging. However, Three Years Later John Christie, A Downstairs Neighbour, Was Found To Be A Serial Killer Who Confessed To Murdering Mrs. Evans And Was Subsequently Found To Have Also Murdered Evans’s Daughter

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#60 Two Guards From Delhi Durbar With James Ricalton, An American ?? Photographer Who Visited India In 1903

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#61 Same Injured Whale Photographed After 35 Years Apart. Amazing. Whale Was Attacked By A Killer Shark

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#62 1939. Kansas Wheat

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#63 ??? ????? ??????? ?????? ??????? Born In Memphis, Tennessee In 1937, Morgan Freeman Was The Youngest Of Five Children. His Parents Had Left The South To Find Work In Chicago. Please Follow @5030remember , A Great History Page Showing World History On Day To Day Basis. Please Also Follow Very Informative Page @history_and_stories, Need Your Support Here. Until The Age Of Six, Freeman Lived With His Grandmother In Mississippi. After His Parents Separated, Freeman Moved To Greenwood, Mississippi, With His Mother. There Freeman Frequently Attended The Local Movie Theater And Became A Fan Of Actors

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#64 Letter From A Trapped Coal Miner Says Goodbye To His Wife, 1902

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#65 Remarkable 2000 Year Old Ladies Shoe Found In A Well Amongst The Ruins Of A Roman Fort Archaeological Dig In Germany…!!

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#66 Oxford, U.k

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#67 Statue Of King Arthur Located In A Castle In Cornwall

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#68 Monte Cristallo, Refuge Of The Alpini

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#69 A Woman Poses To The Câmera , With Berlin In Ruins On The Back, 1945

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#70 Austrian Felix Baumgartner Becomes The First Skydiver To Break The Speed Of Sound, Reaching A Maximum Velocity Of 833.9mph (1,342km/H). Year 2012

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#71 30 Million-Year-Old Praying Mantis Is Preserved In Pristine Piece Of Amber. Please Also Follow The Most Awesome History Page @history_and_stories Need Your Support. Embedded Within A Clear Piece Of Amber, A Small Praying Mantis Sits At Attention, Frozen Forever In Time. The Piece, Which Measures Just Slightly Over One Inch Tall, Was Sold Via Heritage Auctions For $6,000 In 2016

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#72 1963

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#73 At The Age Of 29, Adrian Brody Became The Youngest Oscar Winner For The Lead Male Role In The Pianist. To Prepare For The Role Of The Man Who Lost Everything, He Isolated Himself From Everyone, Left His Apartment And Car, Broke Up With His Girlfriend, Starved And Lost Whole 15 Kilograms.
and He Learned To Play Chopin On The Piano.

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#74 2019

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