Here are 30 fascinating photos from history that you probably had no idea existed

1. French neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne electrocutes a man’s face in order to study facial muscles (1862).
2. Jackie Mitchell with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. She was the only female pitcher to ever strike out the two (1931).
3. Indian scientists transport “The Apple,” India’s first satellite (1981).
4. The Beatles play for 18 people in the Aldershot club before they rose to fame a year later (1961).
5. Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett signs a baseball for Sonny Capone, Al Capone’s son (1931).
6. Confederate veteran Billy Lundy, stands in front of an F-100 Super Sabre (1955).
7. A priest prays for Titanic victims before they are buried at sea (1912).
8. A beggar runs alongside King George V’s coach (1920).
9. The unbroken seal on Tutankhamun’s tomb, left untouched for 3,245 years (1922).
10. A 5MB hard drive is loaded onto a PanAm plane (1956).
11. The East Bay Dragons, the first black motorcycle club in Oakland, California (1960s).
12. One of the first flight simulators (1942).
13. Test pilot George Aird narrowly escapes death by ejecting sideways from a British prototype jet (1962).
14. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing (1960).
15. A Pakistani soldier, during Bangladesh’s War of Independence, checks to see if a man is circumcised, determining whether or not he’s Hindu. [c. 1971]
16. People having a picnic on a deserted highway during the Great Oil Crisis (1973).
17. Queen Elizabeth II firing a British L85 battle rifle (1993).
18. The glasses John Lennon wore when he was assassinated (1980).
19. Alfred Hitchcock and his grandchildren catch snowflakes on their tongues (1960).
20. Hiter and his henchmen marvel at the Schwerer Gustav, the largest piece of artillery ever used in combat. It weighed 1,350 tons (1941).
21. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg during a water gun fight in Kandy, Sri Lanka (1983).
22. Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin., Jr takes a selfie while in space on Gemini 12 (1966).
23. A dove lands on Fidel Castro’s shoulder during a speech. The photo became an iconic image of Cuba’s revolution (1959).
24. Douglas Fairbanks holds up Charlie Chaplin in front of a huge crowd to promote Liberty Bonds on Wall Street in New York City (1918).
25. Women practice their swing with golf lessons from a “robot” trainer (1925).
26. A game of human chess with actual soldiers in St. Petersburg, Russia (1924).
27. Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father and only surviving family member, returns to the attic where they hid from the Nazis (1960).
28. The only known photo of a living Quagga, a now extinct species of zebra, at the London Zoo. (1870).
29. A group of French citizens are introduced to Coca Cola for the very first time (1950).
30. The only known photo of Billy the Kid (1879). h/t: Distractify