Two women buy cocaine in capsules from a dealer, Weimar Republic, Berlin, 1929.

The streets of Karlsbad, Austro-Hungary, 1890s

Zimbabwe banknotes

Although pandas live a little longer in captivity, they almost always refuse to breed there.

Children line up to buy sweets from a cart in Chicago, March 1949 (kodachrome)

This video was filmed in April of 1896 outside the #EmpireTheatre, #LeicesterSquare, #London. I'd give anything to see the pubs that were trading during the time. Make sure you turn up the sound. As loud as London used to be, the sounds of the past are far better than the vehicle ridden noise box of today.

Marmosets are the world's smallest monkeys

Sometimes weighing less than a hundred grams 😌

And its tail is as long as a monkey's torso. It is twisted and has no grasping function. But when the monkey jumps from branch to branch, it has a balancing function.

An Ouled Nail woman from Algeria, 1907

100% aggression 0% damage 😱

A view of statues around a pool at the 1939 New York World Fair

🖱 Probably the most useful mouse and keyboard pad you can think of

The tiger's fangs are sometimes even longer than human fingers. It grips its prey firmly with them and then gobbles it, separating the meat from the bones with its rough tongue.

A German soldier with a Chinese prisoner awaiting execution during the Boxer Rebellion, China, c. 1900

😄 Sometimes foreshortening can change not only the way you see things, but also lift your mood

Gecko and old skin 🦎

If you plant a wall gecko on a dark surface, after a while its usually light skin darkens, providing it with camouflage.

Women pounding rice, Kashmir, India, c. 1890s-1910s

Loaders at the Chinese port of Guangzhou work remotely

Using 5G, they remotely unload ships and control AI machines that automatically pick up and load containers into lorries.

A dog drawn milk cart, Belgium, 1890s

The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 had 2 MILLION gallons of molasses burst the rivet-held holding tank, blasting rivets out like a machinegun, and plunging the 2 million gallons at a ludicrous 35 miles per hour, killing 21 people and killing and injuring many horses. Here is the aftermath in picture.