If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to suppo→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut The Gruesome Tale of Lady Bluebeard https://youtu.be/gxE5jtUaJL4?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR Miss Unsinkable https://youtu.be/8-798XH2RPE?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR In this video: For much of the early history of photography smiling in photographs was almost unheard of for various reasons. (See: When Did People Start Smiling in Photographs?) Despite this, a photo of a Chinese man, dubbed by the masses on the internet, “the happiest man in China”, occasionally makes the rounds purporting to be of a 19th century Chinese man who unabashedly displays a wide, toothy grin for the camera. This, in addition to the man’s remarkably photogenic appearance and near flawless smile, has naturally led many to dismiss the photo as fake- seemingly just a picture someone recently took and digitally touched up to appear like a photo from the 19th or early 20th centuries. So is the “happiest man in China” photo a fake and who is the smiling man? Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/09/story-behind-photo-happiest-man-china/ Sources: https://anthro.amnh.org/laufer_collection https://www.umass.edu/wsp/resources/profiles/laufer.html http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/laufer-berthold.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_K._Jessup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Boas http://intlhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/the-happiest-man-in-1901-1904.html http://lbry-web-007.amnh.org/digital/items/show/29058 http://lbry-web-007.amnh.org/digital/collections/show/14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Laufer https://books.google.c