Seemingly Innocuous Pictures With Surprising Back Stories

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Seemingly Innocuous Pictures With Surprising Back Stories

Presumably boring pictures with strong origin stories. Some pretty crazy stuff in here that will interest you. Every picture is worth a thousand words but these pictures are worth 10 times that.

By kilgore9012

Published 6 years ago in Wow

Presumably boring pictures with strong origin stories. Some pretty crazy stuff in here that will interest you. Every picture is worth a thousand words but these pictures are worth 10 times that. You'll find some pretty tasty morsels of info hiding in these pics that you may not see on your first viewing.

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Nice couple having a fun day at the beach? Unfortunately, this was photographed after these two lost their 19 month old baby to the sea. It was later found dead a mile offshore.

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Random photo of a dock with a ship? Actually, this ship is the USS grandcamp in 1947, when it caught fire in the hold, with 2300 tons (not lbs) of ammonium nitrate. This fire would cause the largest non-nuclear bast in human history. Mushroom cloud was 2000 feet tall, pedestrians would be knocked over by the blast form 10 miles away, buildings flattened, windows shattered. The molten steel shrapnel would fall from the sky at hypersonic speeds, causing many more secondary fires Miraculously, one of the people in this photo (all are volunteer firefighters) would survive the blast. 468 people were killed in the explosion.

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Dude just carrying his lunchbox with him? Actually, that man is holding the nuclear core to fat man, the nuclear bomb that would detonate over Nagasaki.

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Nice family picture from the seventies actually is a family photo with Osama Bin Laden (2nd to the left) at the age of 14, during his stay in Sweden

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Politician at a political rally that would minutes later be killed by suicide blast hugging him. The suspect? The person in the orange flowers, lower left.

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Seemingly normal truck on a normal day would actually be the blast site of the Manchester City Center bombing back in 1996, placed by the IRA

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Just a couple of dude brahs hanging at a house party? nope, the kid on the right is Tyler Hadley, who beat his parents to death with a hammer and then threw a party while their bodies were still in the house. this picture was taken at the party. The guy who called the police is actually the guy standing right next to him in this photo. Earlier that night, Tyler had confessed to him about the murders. It really makes the photo a whole lot stranger considering that the guy next to Tyler is probably thinking about calling the cops, or already had.

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Beautiful little girl posing for a photo? Would later become the president of the United States of America Well, you just got trapped. That's Franklin D. Roosevelt, photo taken at the age of 2 1/2. In those times, boys at the age of 6 or 7 would wear dresses. This dress was considered gender neutral.