Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt S1E01

Reality: One of the inflatable decoy tanks of WW2.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/inflatable-dummy-tanks-1918-1945/

Reality: Some first world war soldiers goofing around during a photoshoot at a military base.

Escape from sand desert [military camp] Neuhammer.” Neuhammer, Germany. Photographer: Paul Riediger. 1913.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/goofy-vintage-soldiers-fake-military-props/

Reality: A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women’s Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain, 1940.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/women-who-changed-history/

Reality: Bobby Fischer casually playing 50 people at once.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/bobby-fisher-playing-50-opponents-simultaneously-hollywood-hotel-1964/

Reality: This is Jane Goodall meeting or playing with a cute lil chimp. She passed away this week, you can read about her cool life here:

https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/young-jane-goodall.html?m=1

Reality: A wealthy lady being carried up mount Vesuvius by a pair of guides (1910)

https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/mountain-guides-carry-a-wealthy-lady.html?m=1

Reality: This is how they used to test football helmets?!?

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/testing-football-helmets-1912/

Reality: This is Felicitte, the first cat to enter and safely return from space!

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/felicette-cat-into-space/

Reality: A picture of the Swedish telephone exchange, with some 5,500 incoming lines.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-stockholm-telephone-tower-1890/

[Actual Reason] https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-apollo-11-astronauts-return-from-around-the-world-goodwill-tour/

bonus from 1945:

Real history that is fake ;)

Reality: On 4 February 1938 a wave of strikes began by dock workers in Hawaii demanding equal pay with dockers on the West Coast of the United States, and a union shop. The strike ended with police shooting 50 unarmed workers in the Hilo massacre. This is a history of the events: https://libcom.org/history/hilo-massacre-1938

Found via: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10424/hawaii-longshore-worker-strikes