These Vintage Ads Would Instantly Be Banned Today

Smoking Baby

Why was everyone so obsessed with poisoning their children? First soda, now this? One is easily worse than the other, but neither should be given to a little baby.

It's Getting Old

People back then had two jokes: women can't drive, and women belong in the kitchen. Get some new material, guys. Come on.

The More You Know

There are snakes with two heads, which compete with each other for food.
A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.
In the late 1600s, London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout "Spanko!" before running away.
The glow around the moon is called a "broch."

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.