Interesting Findings (17 pics)

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This voting ticket from the Civil War (early 1860s) this person found in an old book of Shakespeare — it'd been put there as a bookmark and forgotten.

"Found these 110(?) year old Crayolas in the back of a family secretary desk. The pack still has the crayons."

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"Cleaning out my great grandmothers mobile home and just found this. In disbelief."

3

"This very old bottle of cocaine we found in my pharmacy."

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A bottle of medicinal cocaine — likely from the early 1900s or even earlier.

"Found a movie ticket for Forrest Gump in the pocket of a shirt I bought at the thrift store."

5

"Mosaics of a Roman villa were found under a vineyard in Negrar, Italy."

6

This moonshine from 1917 some kids discovered behind a fake wall in their home's basement:

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"Found a travel brochure from the World Trade Center while cleaning out my house."

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A 120-year-old glass plate negative that YouTuber Mathieu Stern found inside a time capsule and then developed, discovering this image of a long-gone kitty:

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He then colorized the image so we could get a great look at what our feline friend from 1900 really looked it:

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"This Sprite can I found in the ceiling of an old mall."

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This newspaper from 1936 (that fans of The Crown would surely find of interest) this person came across in their grandmother’s boxes.

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"I work for the railway and found this Gatorade carton in near mint condition in a tunnel. Date on the top says June 16, 1988."

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This doodle of a bird on a land deed drawn by a 19th century worker that a digitizer discovered when scanning land deeds from the 1800s:

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A war savings bond issued in 1943 that belonged to this person's great-great-grandparents:

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"Found someone’s 116 year old travel itinerary tucked in an antique Guidebook to Paris."