The past isn’t truly gone. It’s still alive in photos, books, films, and people’s memories. Some photos are so iconic that they become known in every corner of the world. And yet, they don’t paint the full picture of that particular time.
‘Mr Interesting’ is a new online community that is dedicated exclusively to sharing interesting, rare, vintage photos, facts, and other curiosities. We’ve collected some of the most powerful images, which make you stop and stare, to give you a fresh glimpse into the past. Scroll down to see history like you’ve never seen it before.
#1 A Million People Gathered To Protest In Central Seoul, South Korea And Cleaned Up Before They Left

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#2 A Mongolian Girl And Her Camel, United In Laughter, Photographed By Han Chengli In 2003

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#3 A Man With His Dog In The 1920s

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#4 Native American Mother And Her Child, 1902

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#5 Former Billionaire Chuck Feeney Secretly Gave Away His $8 Billion Fortune. His Philanthropy Was Exposed In 1997 When A Business Dispute Forced The Disclosure Of His Identity As The Anonymous Donor

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#6 South Korea Sent A Fully-Kitted Sharpshooter To The Olympics. Turkey Sent A 51-Year-Old Guy With No Lenses, No Eye Shield Or Ear Protection. He Took Home A Silver Medal

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#7 A Dad Who Underwent A Liver Transplant, Taken Just Six Weeks Apart

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#8 Sombra, A Colombian Police Dog, Was So Skilled That Cartels Put A Bounty On Her Life, Leading Authorities To Assign Her Bodyguards And Relocate Her For Safety

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#9 Magazine Ad From 1996 Predicts What Prices Will Be In 2026

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#10 Drone Captures An Elephant Family Sleeping Together

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#11 Mobster Al Capone Ran A Soup Kitchen During The Great Depression And Served Free Meals To Thousands Of Unemployed People Every Day. No Questions Asked

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#12 A Father Looking For His Two Missing Sons That Went Missing During The Kosovo War In 1999. (They Were Later Found Safe)

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#13 In The 1980s, A Japanese Train Station Was Kept Open For Years Just So One Schoolgirl Could Commute To Class. It Closed After Her Graduation

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#14 “Prison Inside Me” Is A Unique Retreat In South Korea Where People Voluntarily Lock Themselves In Simple, Cell-Like Rooms To Unplug, Switch Off Their Phones, And Take A Break From Everyday Life

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#15 A Soviet Woman Who Lost 7 Sons In World War 2

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#16 Three Nigerian Men Were Arrested At An Airport In Algeria After Trying To Board A Flight To Dubai Dressed As Arab Women

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#17 In China, “White Monkey” Jobs Refer To Hiring Caucasian Foreigners To Pose As Employees Or Representatives, To Give The Appearance Of Being More International And Reputable

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#18 A Man Recreates A Photo His Grandfather Took In Tokyo, Standing In The Same Spot 73 Years Later

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#19 The Pyramids In Egypt, Captured From A Different View

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#20 Babies Sleeping Outside To Boost Their Immune System, Moscow 1958

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#21 A Statue In Istanbul To Honor Tombili, A Well-Known Stray Cat. He Used To Sit In This Position And Watch Passers-By

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#22 Two Women Sleeping On The Fire Escape To Stay Cool On A Hot Summer Night, New York, 1948

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#23 In 2006, Guy Goma Showed Up At The Bbc For A Job Interview But Instead Was Mistakenly Interviewed Live On TV As An IT Expert

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#24 China Reportedly Has 50 “Ghost Cities” With Around 65 Million Empty Homes. Enough To House The Population Of France

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#25 A Woman Cuts Her Birthday Cake In Iran 1973, 5 Years Before The Islamic Revolution

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#26 A Us Soldier Smells The Perfume On A Letter From His Girlfriend In Jay, Oklahoma. Vietnam, 1966

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#27 Robin Williams As A Denver Broncos Cheerleader In 1979

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#28 Kids Playing On A Street In London On Their Space Hoppers, 1960s

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#29 Many Japanese Toilets Have A Built-In Sink Above The Water Tank, Allowing Users To Wash Their Hands And Then Reuse That Water For The Next Flush. This Saves Millions Of Liters Annually

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#30 The West African Lungfish Can Survive Up To Three Years Without Food Or Water. When Rivers Dry Out, It Buries Itself In Mud And Forms A Protective Mucus Cocoon To Breathe, Making It One Of Nature’s Most Extreme Survivors

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#31 In 1967, Sweden Switched From Driving On The Left To The Right Overnight – The Change Caused Only One Minor Injury That Day

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#32 World War I Trenches, Then And Now

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#33 A French Boy Greets Indian Soldiers Who Just Arrived In Marseilles To Fight Alongside French And British Forces, 30 September 1914

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#34 A Street In Paris After Weeks Of Garbage Collector Strikes

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#35 Before Rocky, Sylvester Stallone Was A Struggling Actor. He Was So Broke He Sold His Dog Butkus For $40
After selling the script, he bought him back for $15,000 – and gave him a role in the movie.

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#36 London, 1940. A Young Girl Sits In The Wreckage Of Her Bombed-Out Home, Holding Her Doll

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#37 In 2006, Australian Miners Todd Russell And Brant Webb Were Trapped Underground In A Mine For 14 Days
To cope, they asked for an iPod with Foo Fighters music. Dave Grohl sent a handwritten note promising tickets and beers once they were free.

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#38 San Francisco Policeman Scolds A Man For Not Wearing A Mask During The 1918 Flu Pandemic

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#39 The Interior Of A Passenger Airplane In 1930

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#40 Woman Checking Out The Latest Car Safety Feature – The Seat Belt, 1950s

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#41 Elderly Chinese Man Who Turned Down $220,000 Relocation Offer Now Lives In A House Surrounded By Highway

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#42 A Worn-Out Mother Making Matchboxes, Her Child Sleeping Under The Table – London, Circa 1900

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#43 In Japan, The Term “Madogiwa-Zoku” Refers To Older Employees Who Stay On The Payroll But Do Almost Nothing, Often As A Gesture Of Respect Or To Avoid Pushing Them Into Early Retirement

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#44 Las Vegas Police Confronting Mike Tyson Right After He Bit Evander Holyfield’s Ear Off

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#45 A Korean News Program Broadcasting From An Actual Rooftop, Instead Of Using A Green Screen

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#46 1933, JFK Poses His Lifelong Friend Lem Billings

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#47 Lonnie Johnson Invented The Super Soaker In The Late 1980s. In 2013, He Reached A Settlement With Hasbro That Awarded Him Nearly $73 Million In Unpaid Royalties

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#48 In 1989, Russian President Boris Yeltsin Visited A Grocery Store In Houston. He Was Amazed By The Abundance, Later Describing It As A Moment Of Despair For The Soviet People

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#49 North Korea Still Owes Sweden €300M For 1,000 Volvos Delivered In The 1970s. The Cars Were Shipped But Never Paid For – Making It The World’s Largest Ever Car Theft

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#50 Leicester, UK, 1950s. When Coal Was The Number One Energy Source

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#51 Anna Nicole Smith Married Billionaire J. Howard Marshall In 1994 When He Was 89 And She Was 26. After He’s Gone A Year Later, His $1.6 Billion Estate Went Entirely To His Son. Despite Years Of Legal Battles, Anna Never Received A Penny

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#52 After 14 Months At Sea, A Sailor Meets His Baby For The First Time, 1940s

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#53 Father And Son Crying As They Bid Farewell To Relatives Boarding A Boat To Argentina In Search Of A Better Life During Spain’s Economic Hardship, 1957

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#54 Welsh Woman Washing Her Husband After A Shift In The Coal Mines, 1931

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#55 In 1963, 25-Year-Old Mary Brocks Reads A Bedtime Story To Her Nine Children, Which Included Triplets And Twins. Liverpool, UK

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#56 A Baby Drinking A Pint Of Guinness As His Mother Watches Him. Ireland, 1990s

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#57 After The 1929 Stock Market Crash, A Bankrupt Investor Tries To Sell His Luxury Roadster For Just $100

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#58 A Kiowa Girl Named O-O-Be Wears A Three Hide Dress Decorated With Elk Teeth, Oklahoma, 1894

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#59 A City In Germany Has Created Sleeping Pods For The Homeless

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#60 After Losing 63 Lbs For His Role In The Machinist, Christian Bale Had Six Months To Gain 100 Lbs For Batman Begins. He Ended Up Putting On Too Much Muscle And Had To Lose 30 Lbs Before Filming Began

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#61 Indian Scientists Gifting Coconuts To North Sentinelese, 1991

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#62 Last Known Photo Of John Allen Chau, An American Missionary Who In 2018 Bribed A Fisherman To Illegally Take Him To North Sentinel Island To Try To Convert The Tribe. He Was Last Seen Being Dragged Along The Shore After Being Sh*t With Arrows

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#63 Before Computers, Nasa Scientists Used Ladders And A Large Chalkboard To Work Out Equations For Satellite Orbits At Systems Labs, 1957

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#64 An Irish Family Settles Into A Hut After Being Evicted From Their Home (Circa 1880-1890)

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#65 In 1940, A Bear Enlisted In The Polish Army, Learned To Carry Ammo, And Was Officially Given A Rank

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#66 Kids Dressed For Halloween On A School Bus, 1980s

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#67 In 2018, Japan’s Cybersecurity Minister, Yoshitaka Sakurada, Made Headlines When He Admitted He Had Never Used A Computer – Even Though He Was Responsible For The Country’s Cybersecurity

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#68 Kyoto University In Japan Allows Students To Wear Anything They Want For Their Graduation Ceremony

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#69 San Francisco’s Iconic Cliff House, Shortly Before It Was Destroyed By Fire In 1907

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#70 Mobsters Cover Their Faces At Al Capone’s Trial In 1931

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#71 The Las Vegas Strip In 1955, Before The Casinos And Chaos

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#72 Dustin Gorton, A Student At Columbine High School, Reacting To The News That The Sh**ters Were His Friends

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#73 Ozzy Osbourne In 1985, Two Weeks After The Arrival Of His Son, Jack

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#74 A Young Boy Selling Lemonade From A Portable Dispenser In Berlin, 1931

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#75 A Photographer Spent Over 9 Years Capturing Japan’s Isolated Vending Machines In The Middle Of Nowhere

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#76 The Undertaker Looking Down At Medical Staff Checking On Mankind After He Fell (Unscripted) Through The Top Of Hell In A Cell Into The Ring 16ft Below. June, 1998

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#77 Hiroo Onoda, A Japanese Soldier, Continued To Fight In The Philippines For Nearly 30 Years After World War II Ended Because He Didn’t Believe The War Was Over

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#78 Laika Was The First Animal In Space, 1957. Scientists Never Planned For Her Return

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#79 Kim Jong Un Attended A Swiss High School Under The Name “Pak-Un” In The 1990s. He Was Obsessed With Basketball

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#80 1958, 16-Year-Old Leslie Arnold Shows Nebraska Police Where He Buried His Parents. After 10 Years In Prison He Escaped, Vanished, And Built A Secret Life In Australia

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