Strange but true

[fredk]

With a nod to 'Ripley's Believe It or Not!'

I thought a thread like this would be fun

I'll start with;

The B-52 has been in service longer than the period of time between its own first flight and that of the Wright Flyer.

From earliest times up to the end of the Medieval period men carried their personal items in a shoulder bag called a Scrip  and women carried their items in pockets under their dresses.

At some time it all got reversed

 

Belt loops on trousers were not invented until about 1896

So if you see a cowboy film set before this and they are wearing belts through trouser loops they've got it wrong

 

Anyone who has seen the 'Back to the Future' trilogy has seen the scene where modern-era Marty has a gun-fight showdown with Western-era Biff.

In that scene Marty wears an iron stove door under his jacket to stop being killed.

Its a nod to a Clint Eastman film where the 'man with no name' does the same thing

but

the script writers of the Clint film were drawing on real life

In 1893 to 1896 'Decon' Jim Miller, from Arkansas but living in Texas, some-time lawman, but mostly a cattle rustler and gunman wore a steel plate on his chest under his overcoat, which in a couple of gun-fights with his enemies confounded them on how he could survive a hail of bullets to his chest.