There’s nothing quite like looking back on days gone by, so we’ve compiled some awesome historical photos to give you a glimpse into the weird and wonderful 20th century.

Salvador Dali and Coco Chanel sharing a cigarette lighter.


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Using a bear to treat back pain in Romania, 1946.


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Lax safety precautions when setting a new world speed record in 1948.


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Shocked young ladies in a 1929 sex education lesson.


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Lumberjacks in the 1900s showing off their work.


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William Harley and Arthur Davidson testing out the first Harley Davidson motorcycles.


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An early 20th century gun used for duck hunting.


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Military electricians monkeying around in 1918.


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Filming the furry face of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.


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Testing out the latest rugby helmet in a highly scientific way, 1912.


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A pilot casually restarting a stalled propellor mid-flight.


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The biggest horse in the world, 1928.


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Drew Barrymore lighting a cigarette for Stephen King.


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Young women out and about in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the 1970s.


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Ernest Hemingway drinking in a bar.


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The last photo ever taken of a now-extinct Thylacine, snapped in 1933.


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The models used by Grant Wood for his famous painting, American Gothic.


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Bianca Passarge, aged 17, dances on wine bottles wearing her cat costume in Hamburg, 1958.


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Upper-class and working-class children in Britain, 1937.


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July 1954’s Miss World competition in Long Beach, where miss New Zealand fell unconscious.


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A 2-year-old Dalai Lama in 1937.


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The manliest way to shave your beard back in 1940.


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Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen poses with his wife in 1947. He’d lost a leg to frostbite back in 1926.


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A penguin introduces himself to a little girl.


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A soldier shares some bananas with a goat at the Battle of Saipan, 1944.


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The original Michelin man, 1910.


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A young woman and her date share a milkshake in the 1950s.


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