r/HorridHistory
A Sunday School teacher photographed London's poorest children around 1900. He named them the Spitalfields Nippers. His images sat in a family album for 100 years. When they finally came to light, researchers traced the kids. One in three hadn't survived childhood.
utterlyinteresting.comu/dannydutch1 — 4 days ago
A family returning home after treatment, Hiroshima, 1945.
u/CarkWithaM — 8 days ago
u/YouthHungry8716 — 6 days ago
Nauru us often called the fattest country in the world. The reason for this is that their land was destroyed by phosphate mining and they are now dependent on fatty imports.
youtu.beu/ASouthernDandy — 8 days ago
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He became Pope at 18, turned the Lateran Palace into a brothel, ordained a child bishop, invoked pagan gods while gambling, and may have been murdered by a jealous husband in the middle of having sex. Meet Pope John XII, the most depraved man ever to sit on the throne of St. Peter.
utterlyinteresting.comu/dannydutch1 — 8 days ago
Fans try to smother the flames engulfing a supporter during the May 11th, 1985, fire at Bradford City’s Valley Parade stadium, which killed 56 people and injured more than 265.
u/aid2000iscool — 10 days ago
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On the morning of 6 September 1949, in a quiet neighbourhood, New Jersey, a shy, 28-year-old war veteran named Howard Unruh left his apartment with a German Luger pistol and, in just twelve minutes, killed 13 people as he walked down River Road. Its believed to be the first mass shooting in the US.
utterlyinteresting.comu/dannydutch1 — 9 days ago
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A SS judge investigated Oskar Dirlewanger for murder, rape, and torture, instead he got promoted. His unit killed over 120,000 civilians in Belarus. In Warsaw, between 30,000 to 50,000 in a matter of weeks. Oskar Dirlewanger was a man even the SS feared.
utterlyinteresting.comu/dannydutch1 — 11 days ago