The Tokyo subway system employs oshiyas or pushers, workers who literally push commuters into Tokyo’s overcrowded subways and trains. Sources: Wikipedia, CNN, Art and the Subway: New York Underground, amusingplanet
Auto manufacturers do occasionally have senses of humor…
Auto manufacturers do occasionally have senses of humor, and many of them use April Fool’s Day to show it off. Here are a few examples: As an April Fool’s joke, Audi once advertised a car with a built-in rice cooker in Japan. Volkswagen’s Extra Tiny Van, 2015 The German brand proposed the Caddy Maxi Mini, […]
An artist named Tom Friedman created a work of art titled…
An artist named Tom Friedman created a work of art titled “A Curse”, for which he hired a professional witch to curse an 11inch sphere of air above a pedestal in the Saatchi Art Gallery.
Did you know there was actually a ‘Face-book’ in 1902?
Did you know there was actually a ‘Face-book’ in 1902? This newspaper article was originally published in a U.K. newspaper called the Western Times, describing a book in which ‘everyone who comes to stay has to draw a face in… however badly, and sign his name underneath’
During WWII, soldiers were known to take precious family photos…
During WWII, soldiers were known to take precious family photos (and Pinup Girl photos) and put them under clear grips on their 1911 pistols – called Sweetheart Grips. Many of the grips were made from pieces of broken plastic windows from bombers.
In 2014 top secret photographs of the Hiroshima bomb being prepared…
In 2014 top secret photographs of the Hiroshima bomb being prepared for launch became declassified. Technicians signed their names on the tip of the bomb just hours before detonation.
Back in 1911, Imogene Rechtin led a campaign against kissing, as leader of the World’s Health…
Back in 1911, Imogene Rechtin led a campaign against kissing, as leader of the World’s Health Organization (which, to clarify, had nothing to do with the UN’s World Health Organization, founded in 1948). Her followers wore buttons that read, “Kiss Not.” One newspaper at the time remarked, “Judging by the facial features of the presidentess of the cult appearing in the public prints, she is immune without wearing the button.”
– via Weird Universe.
According to the New York Business Journal, the Campbell Soup Co. has recently…
According to the New York Business Journal, the Campbell Soup Co. has recently dramatically increased its marketing budget with the launch of a multimedia ad campaign centered around a boy with a long beard (“The Wisest Kid in the Whole World”) who advises people to have soup.
– via Weird Universe.
Recently some folks at the New York Public Library discovered a box…
Recently some folks at the New York Public Library discovered a box containing old reference questions from the 1940s to 1980s. They’re posting the questions to their Instagram account, noting, “we were Google before Google existed.”
Back in the 1950s it was popular to sit in mildly…
Back in the 1950s it was popular to sit in mildly radioactive dirt as a panacea for many diseases. The house in Rotan, TX, was one such establishment.
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