#21 Here's a Vietnam War draft notice for comparison.
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#22 It's super wild to see this invasion note from when Japan invaded the Philippines in the 1940s, introducing their own currency (the Filipinos had destroyed, dumped, or sent away their own currency). These were colloquially known as Mickey Mouse Bills beca
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#23 Speaking of Mickey Mouse...did you know there were multiple versions of the Disney logo? These are different ideas from 1975, when they changed the logo to what we know it as today.
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#24 It's also soooo wild to see an old magnet from Amazon back in the day. This is from when they only sold books.
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#25 Lysol also used to look a little different.
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#26 Along with Kodak film.
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#27 And National Geographic.
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#28 This isn't quite as old, but I still find it fascinating to see what old Mastercards looked like in the '70s.
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#29 This ad, also from the '70s, is far more wild to see. Who thought a baby hammock—for a CAR, no less—was a good idea?
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#30 This ad is somehow more bizarre. A pet monkey for under $20???
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#31 This machine, though, actually makes me want to travel back in time to the '60s...or go visit the person with this machine.
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#32 Ever get frustrated that your Social Security card is just a flimsy piece of paper? Well, people used to have brass social security cards made as stand-ins for the paper versions—this is what they used to look like.
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#33 I'm kind of obsessed with this old Social Security pamphlet, which looks like something from Fallout.
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#34 It's also so interesting to see political propaganda from back in the day. This was made to protest Nixon's New Economic Policy, which devalued the dollar and delinked it from gold.
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#35 Buttons from old elections are super weird to see today. I can't even imagine how different presidential elections were before modern media.
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#36 This is what fire extinguishers used to look like in the late 1800s and early 1900s. They were essentially bulbs filled with water and some sort of fire suppression liquid that you could throw at a fire (or would break on their own when exposed to fire) t
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#37 TIL, the Army used to issue lighters to soldiers. Here's what one from WWII looked like.
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#38 Here's what a Japanese Rifle from WWII looks like.
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#39 And here's what's left of an old bayonet someone found from WWI.
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#40 Here's what first aid kits from the early 1900s looked like—this one even includes morphine.
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