Many Japanese families chose not to have children in 1966 due to their superstition of “Hinoe-Uma (Fire-Horse)”. Fire-Horse is the 43rd combination of the sexagenary cycle, which happens every 60 years. The superstition is that women born in this year of the “Fire-Horse” have a bad personality and will kill their future husband. I presume the parents then were worried about their daughter’s huge disadvantage in the future marriage market, so they chose to avoid the risk of having a girl. Sex detection during pregnancy was not available then, so many families avoided having children altogether in 1966. This kind of superstition seems to have been more prevalent in rural areas than in urban areas, because the fertility drop in urban areas was less than in rural areas.

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Freediving with whales on the island of Moorea.
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Electrolysis of tin chloride to form metal.
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Farmer saves bloated cow by stabbing it

The wasp drank the beer
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This is an amazing image of a Football match played in 2000-year-old Roman arena in \#Pula, \#Croatia.
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Countries with the most volcanoes
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A curious Italian woman inspects the kilt of a Scottish soldier near the Coliseum after the liberation of Rome, 1944
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A game cameraman's job at a Valorant tournament

The guy looks at all 10 players' cameras and saves the most interesting moments to replay them within 5-10 seconds after the end of the round.
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🇪🇪 Estonians trying to put out fires following the bombings on 9-10 March 1944 . The Soviet Air Forces bombed the Estonian capital, Tallinn, that, at the time, was occupied by Nazi Germany. Over a thousand incendiary bombs were dropped on the town, causing widespread fires and killing 757 people, of whom 586 were civilians and 75 prisoners of war, wounding 659, and leaving over 20,000 people without shelter. The city had also previously suffered bombing by the German Luftwaffe in 1941.

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