They say truth is stranger than fiction, and they’re not wrong. We often look for entertainment on the big screen or media only to forget the biggest amusement park of wonder, exploration and ingenuity called human history.

So today, we are taking a look into the weird, bizarre and simply incredible world of the past thanks to the Twitter page “Weird History.” Boasting 186.4K followers, the account shares historical peculiarities not everyone knows today.

From pin boys lining up the bowling pins before automated machines to the fact that Harvard had three campus breweries, to a photograph of a boy experiencing television for the first time in 1948, these are the moments worthy of books.

Scroll down through the most peculiar collection of historical photos below, upvote your favorite ones and be sure to check out our previous curiosity-inducing posts about history in photos here and here.

• Read More: ‘Weird History’ Is An Account That Shares Interesting, Odd, And Funny Things That Happened Throughout History (50 New Pics)

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