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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt S1E01
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Reality: One of the inflatable decoy tanks of WW2.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/inflatable-dummy-tanks-1918-1945/
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Reality: Some first world war soldiers goofing around during a photoshoot at a military base.
Escape from sand desert [military camp] Neuhammer.” Neuhammer, Germany. Photographer: Paul Riediger. 1913.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/goofy-vintage-soldiers-fake-military-props/
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Reality: A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women’s Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain, 1940.
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Mid hazing, Bobby begins to suspect he isn't actually at the cool and hip sorority...
(media.piefed.ca)
Reality: Bobby Fischer casually playing 50 people at once.
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Reality: This is Jane Goodall meeting or playing with a cute lil chimp. She passed away this week, you can read about her cool life here:
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While an ethical alternative, the Noble trade never really replaced the Slave trade
(media.piefed.ca)
Reality: A wealthy lady being carried up mount Vesuvius by a pair of guides (1910)
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/mountain-guides-carry-a-wealthy-lady.html?m=1
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Before the invention of doors, entering a new building was a lengthy, painful process
(media.piefed.ca)
Reality: This is how they used to test football helmets?!?
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/testing-football-helmets-1912/
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Reality: This is Felicitte, the first cat to enter and safely return from space!
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Reality: A picture of the Swedish telephone exchange, with some 5,500 incoming lines.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-stockholm-telephone-tower-1890/
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Reality: On 4 February 1938 a wave of strikes began by dock workers in Hawaii demanding equal pay with dockers on the West Coast of the United States, and a union shop. The strike ended with police shooting 50 unarmed workers in the Hilo massacre. This is a history of the events: https://libcom.org/history/hilo-massacre-1938
Found via: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10424/hawaii-longshore-worker-strikes
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