24 Famous Photos' Eyebrow-Arching Backstories

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24 Famous Photos' Eyebrow-Arching Backstories

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but really those words only usually come about when liberal arts teachers have run out hundred-years old poetry to bore their students with. Thankfully, though, the real "thousand words" behind a photo are much more interesting than what any aspiring "next great haiku writer" could come up with.

With the help of master photo manipulator AuntieMeme, we did a little digging on some history's most iconic photos to give you the real story behind the image.

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The White guy in this photo was blacklisted from being in the Olympics. That's Australian Peter Norman at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. Despite the fact t

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President Carter's official portrait was the first one that was a photograph, rather than a painting. It was taken by Ansel Adams, the photographer fa

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This photo is hiding an iconic first. STo This image appears to be the first instance of a person flipping a bird to the camera. Doing the honors: Ol

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This photo may have ended Marilyn's marriage. 8 Marilyn Monroe playfully posed for a series of photos while filming The Seven Year Itch in 1952. Then-

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Ever wonder what Frank Sinatra was arrested for? 56 30 S'0 6 40: 3 3'0 2'6 COUNTY BERGEN OFFICE SHERIFF'S 11 27 38 42799 Young Blue Eyes was arrested

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