Welcome to /c/fakehistoryporn@lemmy.world , where fake history is made. Find a historically significant photo, come up with a fake history title, post it, laugh.
The name is a reference to the fact that the pictures should be worth marveling at. This is NOT a place for hardcore pornography. Tasteful nudity is fine as long as it fits within the context of the post (please mark it as NSFW).
Reality: This is how they used to test football helmets?!?
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/testing-football-helmets-1912/
That is a great way of paralyzing yourself .... and killing yourself instantly if you do it with enough force
Here's the story of Serbian player Boban Janković, who in 1993 paralyzed himself when he smashed his head up against a padded concrete post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cfPr-D_4iY
As funny as it looks, smashing your head up against a wall is absolutely dangerous. If your head is just at the right angle with enough force behind it, you can paralyze yourself ... with just bit more force, you kill yourself.
Holy shit... That video is terrifying.
Janković used a wheelchair for the final 13 years of his life and gained a considerable amount of weight, which exerted significant stress on his heart. On June 28, 2006, while on a holiday cruise near Rhodes that departed from Piraeus, Janković died of a heart attack and heart failure at the age of 42.
Brutal.
The invention of CTE
Damnit, I like this title much more.
Fun fact: doors were invented before buildings
Well now I'm thinking about the toll booth in Blazing Saddles
Somebody's gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes
More of a rugby helmet. Mr Burns' helmet always confused me until I learned it used to be rugby. *Forward pass was introduced in 1906. While I'm not sure how it was played I imagine it was more rugby style than what it is today.
Oh cool, hadn't even thought about Monty's helmet and did not know about the forward pass!
All of these convenient doors made us lose the ability to clip through walls
Username checks out.
Why lab technicians are required to wear stain-resistant lab coats and eye protection.
Dam men are stupid sometimes