41 Bizarre Photos From The Past Show Just How Weird We've Always Been

This new set of old historical photographs proves that we've always been weird. Just take a look.

1. A police officer judges an ankle competition in London, 1930

2. A professional “rat catcher” showing off his kill. Rat catchers would scour the sewers of Europe and receive money for every rat they killed, 1904

3. Women paint their legs to make it look like they were wearing stockings, 1942

4. The day Sweden switched which side of the road they drive on, 1967

5. Members of the Seattle Tubing Society relax on a warm afternoon, 1953

6. A maintenance personnel loads 5 megabytes of memory into a Pan am Aircraft, 1956

7. A man tests a prototype football helmet, 1912

8. Batman on elephant, 1967

9. Nazis sing outside Jewish art shops to encourage Germans to boycott the shops, 1933

10. "People Scooper" for cars, 1920s

11. A “Punt Gun” used to hunt waterfowl - it was banned because it was too effective, 1800s

12. A brewery in England delivers kegs of beer on Spitfires to troops fighting in Normandy, June 1944

13. War-orphaned Vietnamese babies are flown to LAX, April 12, 1975

14. Alfred Hitchcock serving tea to the MGM Lion, 1957

15. Exercise machine used to "roll the fat" out of legs, 1936

16. Salvador Dali walking his pet anteater, 1969

17. Women boxing on a rooftop, 1938

18. Women wear "wooden bathing suits" designed to make one more buoyant, 1929

19. An alien mugshot, part of a 1958 hoax in Bad Axe, Michigan

20. A Berlin boy sells lemonade using a portable lemonade dispenser, 1931

21. United States Border Patrol drags a fugitive across the US border in order to keep him from escaping to Mexico, 1920

22. An overhead view of New York showing everyone wearing a hat (1939)

23. Japanese women in a Tokyo courtroom cover their faces in shame.

24. The Dynasphere, a monowheel electric vehicle which could go up to 25 mph, 1932

25. Russian soldiers feed polar bears from their tank, 1950

26. A German soldier firing a gun standing from the back of his horse, 1939

27. A woman waits for the hoops of her crinoline to be finished by a dress shop in London, 1860

28. Pedal skates, 1910

29. Kids playing with stacks of German money, 1922

30. Portable TV concept, 1967

31. Parisians navigate flood waters by walking across rows of chairs, 1924

32. A woman wears a cape to block off harmful UV rays, 1946

33. World War I “Sound Finders” designed to detect which direction enemy planes were approaching (c. 1914 - 1918)

34. A nurse applying UV light to babies, 1927

35. Belgian troops stand with their dog-drawn cannons on their way to the Western Front, 1914

36. Participants of a "Miss Lovely Eyes" contest in Florida, 1930

37. How they advertise anti-malaria drugs, 1941

38. An “icebox” facial beauty treatment, 1966

39. A masked Mickey Mouse Club meeting, 1930s

40. A woman smuggling beer during prohibition sometime between 1920 and 1933

41. Actors recording an episode of the "Gang Busters" crime radio show, 1934