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Here’s a group of people casually enjoying a swim while, in the distance, an atomic bomb detonates:
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Speaking of which, people were so caught up in atomic-mania at they crowned a « Miss Atomic Bomb » in 1957. Here’s what she looked like:
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This is a Japanese painting from 1854 of an American:
Here’s a picture of what the subject of the drawing actually looked like:
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This is what the Great Sphinx of Giza looks like from above:
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This is what an x-ray of a baby gorilla looks like:
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This is a spiral-style answer sheet specifically designed to make cheating way harder:
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At first glance, this just looks like a regular old-timey baseball team photo. But look a little closer and you’ll spot what many believe is the very first captured moment of someone, well… flipping the bird:
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Let’s get a closer look:
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This is what the interior of a commercial aircraft looked like in 1920:
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This is how big an ostritch egg is compared to a human hand:
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This is what Albert Einstein’s desk looked like the day he died in April 1955:
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This is how big the propellers on the Titanic were compared to a person:
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Hummingbird nests are tiny. Really, really tiny:
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This is what it looked like after a golf hole was struck by lightning:
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This is a prototype for a baby stroller made to withstand gas attacks during World War II:
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Often called the « first meme », this still-accurate cartoon appeared in a magazine in the 1920s:
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And here’s how big the jaws of the Megalodon were compared to a human:
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This is a picture of a drive-in movie from 2001. Just kidding, it’s from the 1930s, too:
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This is what $100 in brand new five dollar bills looks like:
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Lots of US presidents have spoken multiple languages — here’s a list of every purportedly multilingual president:
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This is what the skull of a typical dog looks like compared to a pug’s skull:
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This is how large the statue of David’s, uh, rear-end is:
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Here’s a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, pictured here in 1967, winning a stone-lifting contest in Germany:
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This is what an average children’s playground looked like in 1908:
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This absolute playboy is Jonathan the tortoise, the oldest known living land animal, who turned 192 years old last year:
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This is the Terex 33-19 Titan, an absolute behemoth of a truck that was the largest in the world for multiple decades:
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Here’s what that same truck looks like with a, well, normal-sized truck on top of it:
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This is the last meal Richard Nixon ate in the White House before he resigned. Pineapple, cottage cheese, and a glass of milk:
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This is what a piece of fatty tuna looks like next to a piece of lean tuna:
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This is what a tiger’s paw looks like compared to a human hand:
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This is a rare natural phenomenon known as a brinicle. It’s a salty underwater icicle that freezes everything it touches:
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Helmets are very, very important:
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Hummingbird feathers are very, very tiny:
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This is what one of the only surviving suits of elephant armor looks like:
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If you’re flying in a plane above Bahrain, you can see the entire country:
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This ol’ lumpy thing is the ball used in the 1930 World Cup final:
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This is what an ASL word search looks like:
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This is what it looks like when your entire bottle of glue dries before you can use it:
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Somewhere out there are people with only one line on their hand:
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This is what it looks like if you excavate and cook all the cookie dough in your ice cream:
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This is what a tapeworm looks like under an electron microscope:
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Pills for cows are absolutely enormous:
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You’re obviously familiar with the magnificent death mask of Tutankhamun. Well, this is what it looks like from the side:
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This is what a totally safe, totally not-dangeorous chairlift looked like in the 1950s before everyone became so concerned with that whole « not falling to an untimely demise » thing:
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Near the end of World War I, American soldiers about to be sent to Europe made a human Statue of Liberty:
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Months later enormous crowds would gather in Philidelphia to celebrate the end of the war:
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Some parts of Earth look exactly like Mars. That’s Earth on the left and Mars on the right:
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Before the polio vaccine was invented, whole sections of healthcare facilities were dedicated to iron lungs and treating patients:
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This is what a wind turbine looks like after being hit by a tornado:
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Pictured here are the two winners of the 1922 Washington Tidal Basin Beauty Contest, Eva Fridell and Anna Niebel:
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Typhoon Ragasa made landfall in China last week. This is what it looked like from space:
Here’s another picture taken from space by astronaut Kimiya Yui:
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This is what an albino alligator looks like:
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Here’s a picture of a car stunt from the 1920s featuring a man jumping a fallen bridge and probably permanently bruising his rear-end:
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This is what a pair of thumbs that cannot bend look like:
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This is what a TV set looked like in the 1930s:
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There’s a town in Italy named Centuripe that resembles a big giant person made out of houses:
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Some pool balls have, well, other pool balls in them:
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When Mount Vesuvius erupted in Ancient Rome, the explosion carbonized several loaves of ancient Roman bread:
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There’s a gigantic bridge between Denmark and Sweden, the Oresund Bridge, that goes completely underwater at one point:
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There’s a place in Antarctica known as « Blood Falls, » a spooky looking formation that looks like a waterfall made out of, well, blood:
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And this is what a solar eclipse looks like from space:
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This is one very, very, very safe example of what a baby’s car seat used to look like in the 1950s and 60s:
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Here it is in action:
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This is what one of Galileo’s first telescopes looked like:
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Pictured here are a bunch of daredevils hanging out in a 45-foot cross setion of a pipe used to build the Hoover Dam:
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You’re obviously familiar with the iconic space suits Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong wore when they first stepped foot on the moon…
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Well, this is what the back of that suit looked like:
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This is what it looks like when molten steel hits the floor:
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This is what a « peeled egg » looks like after the shell has been entirely removed:
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This is what the first iPhone’s camera looks like compared to a recent iPhone’s camera:
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This is what the inside of a very old pinball machine looks like:
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This is the first prize winning can of string beans from September 1945:
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Bookworms are not only REAL, this is the kind of damage they can do to a poor, defenseless book:
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This is what the fang of a ball python looks like after it bites you:
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And, finally, did you know that eleven days in October had to be skipped after the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1582?
