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

In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.
Coca-Cola once bought all the website URLs that can be read as ahh, all the way up to 62 h’s.
J is the only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table.
Singapore plans to build floating burbs.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.