Funny, Strange, Random Pics

In the 1930s in the United States, sacks containing flour and grain were made of cloth, primarily cotton. The Kansas Wheat company, in the midst of the Great Depression, realized that the poorest families were reusing them to sew dresses for women and girls, so to make them more captivating they decided to print them with floral and colorful motifs.
The initiative was a huge success: they made sure that the ink used for the logos would fade after a simple wash, and some bags even had the patterns already drawn on the fabric, ready to be cut and sewn.
A marketing tactic that helped American families get through a particularly difficult period, also useful as a source of income for women who would later sell their recycled models.

Pantheon, Rome, Italy
The oldest door still in use in Rome. Cast in bronze for emperor Hadrian's rebuilding, they date from about 115 AD.
Each door is solid bronze seven and a half feet wide & twenty-five feet high, yet so well balanced they can be pushed or pulled open easily by one person. It's also one of the only two doors in the world with a 2000 year old lock that is still working.

Vertical staircase in Brazil.

Chukzombi said:

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I used to have an ex-WW2 BMW motorcycle just like that one - even still had the mounts for the sidecar, and when we started to strip the tins for painting, we found some of the original sand paint from it's time in North Africa.
To be fair though, by the time it got to me it was more like the Ship of Theseus than the original WW2 bike, but the numbers matched, and that's what mattered.

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