These Vintage Ads Would Instantly Be Banned Today

Women Are Objects

Women! They're things. Or stuff. Wait, no, they're people... but not until the '90s. Before then, your girlfriend was a mop, or a beer, or a pack of cigarettes.

Fashion Week

Does anyone have a clue what this naked woman holding a heavy stack of books has to do with stockings? Do stockings... make you smarter? Is it because they squeeze the blood from your legs back up to your brain?

The More You Know

There are around 2,000 thunderstorms happening on Earth at all times.
12 plants and 5 animals make up 75% of diets around the world.
Finland has more saunas than cars.
Where the Wild Things Are was supposed to have been about horses—but the illustrator couldn't draw them.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.