Long exposure times made smiling difficult and by long we mean several hours.
Poor dental hygiene made people reluctant to show their teeth or whatever teeth they had left , and let's not forget that many Victorians simply had it too rough a life to take.
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The Victorian era gave us many great inventions that we still use today - bicycles, Morse code, ice cream as we know it, and even the telephone.
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In the same year, she started working at Bored Panda as a photo editor.