Crazy things from the past - a thread🧵 1. They lived more in future than we do in 2025

2. Early publicly sold Coca-Cola bottle While the original Coca-Cola formula contained a small amount of cocaine — then believed to have medicinal properties — it was gradually reduced and completely removed by 1929.

3. Automatic candle snuffer from 1841

4. Cough syrup produced in Baltimore in 1888

5. Buster Keaton's insane stunts

6. Seats of an airplane, 1930

7. Vintage steam powered carousel kettle

8. Victorian era radiator with bread warmer

9. The first successful launch of a V-2 rocket occurred on October 3, 1942, from Peenemünde, Germany.

10. Escape artist Harry Houdini locked up in chains about to take a 30 foot plunge off the Harvard Bridge into the Charles River in Boston, 1908.

11. A hand crank milkshake mixer, 1890s

12. Portable radio in a straw hat, made by an American inventor in 1931. A similar model was introduced in early 1949 for $7.95 as the "Man-from-Mars Radio Hat."

13. A hand crank apple peeler, 1868

14. Reusable grocery list from the 1950s

15. King Carlo Alberto's writing desk, 1840 This elegant piece and its matching armchair combine beauty and function, featuring cleverly hidden drawers and compartments.

16. Perfume bottle consisting of eight small glass bottles shaped as orange segments, 1925

17. A folding lantern dating back to the early 1900s

18. Wooden swimsuit in Washington State, 1929

19. This 1877 praxinoscope creates the illusion of moving pictures

20. The mysterious dodecahedron These small Ancient Roman objects were made of a copper alloy and were cast into a regular dodecahedral shape with twelve flat pentagonal faces. Dating from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD, their purpose remains unknown.