32. Generations of America’s Elites Had Their Nudie Pics Snapped in the Name of Science
From the 1940s to the 1970s, Yale, plus some other Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Vassar, and Brown, required their freshmen to pose nude for a photoshoot. The goal of the weird requirement was to furnish material for a massive study into how rickets developed, and that involved sticking pins to the backs of the subjects, male and female.
Generations of the country’s elite who went to the Ivy Leagues posed for the nudie pics. The archives included the naked photos of well-known figures ranging from George W. Bush to Hillary Clinton to Diane Sawyer to Meryl Streep. The photos were burned after news leaked and the study was denounced. However, it is possible that some might have escaped the flames, and are still circulating out there, to potentially end up on the internet someday.