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Newborn babies can support their own weight for up to two minutes when hanging from a bar. This was discovered by a man named Dr Robinson in the late 1800's, when he made 60 babies dangle from a walking-stick.

King Leupold II of Belgium was responsible for the genocide of 10 million Congolese in the late 1800's

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  1. The tradition of women in Bolivia wearing bowler hats dates back to the late 1800's when a shipment meant for English workers were too small so they were given to the locals

  2. In the late 1800's, Doctors would infect sick patients with a secondary disease, in order to cure them of the primary one eg. a patient with syphilis would be injected with malaria, to give them a fever and thus, cure them (Most prominently by Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg)

  3. Watching people walk was America's favorite spectator sport in the late 1800's.

  4. Rechargeable electric cars existed and were quite popular in the late 1800’s. Worldwide discoveries of large petroleum reserves and road infrastructure that required longer driving time led to their decline.

  5. Baked beans started with a bean native to the Americas exported to France/Italy in the 1500's, were brought back to America with European colonization, then exported to the UK as an "American delicacy" in the late 1800's, and are now reimported to the US as "UK Baked Beans"

  6. King Leupold II of Belgium was responsible for the genocide of 10 million Congolese in the late 1800's

  7. In the late 1800's the most famous entertainer in all of France was Joseph Pujol. Known as Le Petomane, he thrilled the masses with his famous anus, playing music and performing tricks with only "the gasses from his posterior"

  8. The word 'soccer' originated in the late 1800's and was 'Oxford slang' for the 'assoc' in Association football (the full title of the game)

  9. The Eiffel Tower was so unpopular in the late 1800's that 47 notable Parisians penned a letter protesting its construction, and one of them often ate lunch at the tower's base just so he wouldn't have to look at it.

  10. Public restrooms weren'tseparated by sex because of biological differences between men and women, but because during the late 1800's lawmakers decided that women should be kept separate so they didn't have to face the harsh realities of the public sphere.

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Tourists started visiting the Grand Canyon in the late 1800's.

Science writers in the late 1800's used fairy tales to explain chemistry to children - source

Tennis players have to wear white at Wimbledon, because back in the late 1800's, they couldn't cope with the idea that women sweat, and it was less likely to show up on white clothing. - source

A baboon operated as a railway signalman in the late 1800's

Chert was used in the late 1800's and early 1900's as grave markers or headstones.

Dinosaurs were not officially discovered until the late 1800's despite the fact records of their bones date back almost 2000 years before

About Seattle’s regrades. In the late 1800’s and 1900’s, workers blasted hills with water cannons, lowering them significantly, and ended up moving over 7 million cubic yards of dirt into the Puget Sound, effectively reshape the coastline

In the late 1800-1920s people believed that they could catch diseases including Cholera if the torso got to cold, so they would wear a 6 foot long knitted flannel belt under the clothes around the abdomen to prevent many diseases.

Jack the Signalman was a baboon who was employed by the railroad in South Africa in the late 1800's as a signalman. Jack never made a mistake in his 9 years of employment.

The First Playgrounds built in North America in the late 1800's were actually just large piles of sand. The "sand gardens" were very popular in urban areas where kids didn't have access to nature play or large yards.

In the late 1800's, the idea of "airing" your baby, putting them in baby cages hung from apartment windows, to promote health, started cropping up in parenting books. Believing that exposing infants to cold temperatures, would grant them a certain immunity to minor illnesses.

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In the late 1800's there was a man who built a 40-Foot “Spite Fence” around his neighbor’s house.

A good brakeman (railroad worker who coupled trains) in the late 1800's was missing a few fingers, otherwise they were considered a green horn.

Cocaine was marketed as a remedy for toothaches in the late 1800's. It was marketed as an "instantaneous cure".

Most hoboes in late 1800's were American Civil War Veterans.

During the late 1800's two young black albinos were kidnapped by a bounty hunter working for a roadside show and taken away from their mother. Years later they were reunited and set free. Missing the road, the two brothers returned to the circus.

During the late 1800's and early 1900's, electric cars made up 1/3 of all vehicles on the road. Over time; because of the development of an electric starter, the mass-produced Model T, and gasoline prices falling, (among other things) gasoline powered vehicles became more popular.

Perverse Incentives, unintended and frequently awful side effects of positively-intentioned wellness programs, such as murdering people for body part bounties (which happened in the late 1800's in England)

The Greater Prairie Chicken population in Illinois went from about 14 million in the late 1800's to only 100 by 2014.

Coca-Cola was originally sold in the late 1800's as a cure for impotency.

The Skeleton Army was a group that opposed the anti-alcohol work on the Salvation Army in the late 1800's.

Shrunken heads were often traded in the late 1800's and early 1900's, causing tribes responsible to increase their rate of killing in order to supply heads for trade.

When the idea of bottling Coca Cola in the late 1800's was first propsed the owner of Coca Cola (Chandler) was so persuaded that he signed over the rights to bottle Coca Cola to the first bottlers for just $1, Chandler never collected the dollar.

In the late 1800's, men would give invitation cards to women which contained pickup lines

In the late 1800's there was a multimillionaire New Yorker by the name of Evander Berry Wall that was the self proclaimed "King of The Dudes"

In the late 1800's, Irish-American immigrants invaded Canada.

HIV/aids was introduced to humans from a tribe of Chimpanzees in central Africa in the late 1800's when people hunted them for meat.

Waco, Texas, had so many gunfights in the late 1800's that it was called >Six Shooter Junction.

In late 1800’s early 1900’s families would take family portraits after one of their family members died with them in the photo

In the late 1800's, a group tried to introduce all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare into America.

The only reason time zones exist is because of railroads in the late 1800's

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