
Mass marriage in China, an old fire engine still functioning after 84 years, the Diogenistic Utopia of Juarez, testing stockings at the Bureau of Standards, making sand blast pictures and others make up the facts that provide novelty here..
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Is it worth your time? If you have ten minutes and a strange craving for black-and-white curiosities, sure. It’s for the folks who get a kick out of old-timey newsreels and weird, dusty facts. If you need a plot or, I don't know, a coherent theme, you’re going to be bored out of your mind within sixty seconds. It’s ba...


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"Is it worth your time? If you have ten minutes and a strange craving for black-and-white curiosities, sure. It’s for the folks who get a kick out of old-timey newsreels and weird, dusty facts. If you need a plot or, I don't know, a coherent theme, you’re going to be bored out of your mind within sixty seconds. It’s basically a parade of weird stuff. One minute you're watching a mass wedding in China, and the next you’re watching someone test how much weight a pair of stockings can hold at the B..."


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