History Facts & Stories on Instagram: "These 120 year old clips offer a rare window into everyday life, revealing that people in the past were not nearly as serious or stoic as they are often portrayed. Instead of the stiff, unsmiling figures we see in old photographs, the footage shows individuals laughing, joking, and enjoying themselves in surprisingly relatable ways. The moments captured challenge the long held stereotype of earlier generations as overly formal, reminding us that humanity’s

Explaining The Past on Instagram: "In 1957, during the early stages of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, the second spacecraft ever sent into orbit — and the first to carry a living creature. The passenger was Laika, a stray dog found on the streets of Moscow and selected because small, resilient dogs handled stress well during testing. The mission had no recovery system. Soviet engineers knew from the beginning that Laika would not return to Earth. At the time, scientists were