These Vintage Ads Would Instantly Be Banned Today

Torture Device

This is not a medieval torture device, no matter how much it may look like one. In what universe does this contraption resemble a baseball mask? And who asked for something like this?

Women Can't Do Anything: The Musical

One would assume that if this woman was a Telex operator, she would know what a Telex is. Of course, according to every advertisers in the twentieth century, women didn't know how to read, drive, or identify basic objects.

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The More You Know

  • In 1966 and 1967, soldiers testing Agent Orange in Canada were told the chemical was completely safe and sprayed it on each other to cool off.
  • Domino's Japan trained reindeer to deliver pizza.
  • The smallest bone in your body is in your ear.
  • The sun and moon appear to be the same size in the sky because of an astonishing coincidence: the moon is 400 times smaller but 400 times closer.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.