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This bullfighting photo from 1965 that is giving me stress just looking at it:
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This child sitting on a muzzled alligator at the California Alligator Farm, circa 1930:
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This surgeon using a brace and bit to drill into a patient's skull before performing a lobotomy at a mental hospital in England, November 1946:
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These New York steel workers eating lunch on a steel beam 800 feet up the RCA building in Rockefeller Center:
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The fact that we cut so much old-growth forest — this logger lying in the cut of a Douglas fir tree:
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This 1934 photo of a "baby cage," a cage you could attach to the window of your upper-floor apartment so your baby could get some good ol' fresh air and sunshine:
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The fact that there was a trend where women used to pluck their hairline way, way, wayyyyy up to almost the North Pole:
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This 1934 William Tell-esque moment, when golfer Joe Kirkwood decided to show off a rather artful tee-off:
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This 1975 photo of lion trainer Richard Collins putting his head in the mouth of 'Johnny,' one of his five lions:
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The fact that people used to use arsenic in medicine:
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This very helpful soldier lighting a child's cigarette:
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Bonus: this 1957 photo of a dad lighting his child's cigar:
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These guys racing ostriches in the 1930s:
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This 1935 man who donned homemade wings and webbing of his own invention to jump out of a plane at 12,000 feet (spoiler alert not only did he SURVIVE, he performed a series of maneuvers midair):
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Similar story: a man flying a '37 Stearman biplane so his wife can go wing-walking:
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Motorcycle stuntman Chris Bromham performing a trick in 1983:
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This 1920s equestrian in the circus:
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And finally, much more recent than the other photos: Trump in 2017, straight-up staring at the sun during an eclipse (before he figured out the glasses):