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35 Extremely Obvious Things I Just Learned For The First Time That Completely And Totally Blew My Mind


35 Extremely Obvious Things I Just Learned For The First Time That Completely And Totally Blew My Mind

1.

Ever wondered what the big difference is between a crocodile and an alligator? Well, wonder no longer. That’s an alligator on the left and a crocodile on the right:

2.

In some Japanese television shows, if food is shown and not entirely consumed, a small caption reading “the staff ate it later” appears on screen to show the food was not wasted:

3.

Even coin minters make mistakes. This is what a misprinted penny looks like:

4.

Here’s a tiny chihuahua wearing an “anti-hawk” vest that makes it look like, well, a big, spiky chihuahua:

5.

This is what the McDonald’s menu (and the McDonald’s prices) looked like in the 1960s:

6.

People consume a lot of bananas during marathons. Here’s the scene at a garbage can during a race in Sweden:

7.

This is what one million dollars in $1 bills looks like:

8.

This is what a black box inside a plane actually looks like:

9.

This is what the inside of a credit card looks like:

10.

This is what Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” looks like in person:

11.

In 1994, a 9GB drive cost over $4,000:

12.

This is what it looks like if you sit up during a CT scan:

13.

The Sphinx has a big ol’ Sphinx tail:

14.

Carrots actually have a bit of an outer shell. Here’s what it looks like if you gnaw that off:

15.

Speaking of which, carrots, my friend… carrots can be huge:

16.

And bananas, my friend… bananas can be very, very long:

17.

If you break your thumb and don’t move it for months, you just might lose the crease:

18.

This is what the view from the top of Mount Everest looks like:

19.

This is what a pair of prosthetic eyes looks like:

20.

Some chairs have vents for, well, I’m sure you can guess:

21.

Curved escalators are a thing that exists:

22.

Helmets are very, very important:

23.

Behold… an onion that is both white onion and red onion:

24.

Some people can do absolutely ridiculous stuff with their double-jointed fingers:

25.

Some books are printed in all black. Here’s one of those books:

26.

This is my Uncle Tony, uh, I mean, it’s a model of what a neanderthal man looked like:

27.

Fire extinguishers can be SQUARE:

28.

If you use a drill on an undrillable surface you just might untangle it:

29.

Baby-sized pills for babies exist. Here’s one next to an ibuprofen tablet:

30.

The “American Selection” inside an Irish grocery store is, well, interesting:

31.

Pens… pens can write a whole lot of words:

32.

This is what the base of a wind turbine looks like before it’s filled with concrete:

33.

This is what stem cells look like after they’ve been collected and are ready to be transplanted:

34.

It’s possible to get a 2×4 from the center of a tree:

Dave Stopera

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