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This is what a fish getting a CT scan looks like:
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This is a picture of the first-ever international tennis match at Wimbledon in 1883:
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This is Jeanne Calment, the longest-lived person ever verified. Here she is at the tender age of 120 years and 239 days:
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This is what the set of Seinfeld looked like:
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This is what a jail cell in Germany looks like:
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And, for good measure, this is what a prison cell in Sweden looked like the ’70s:
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This is what New York City’s Central Park looked like during the Great Depression:
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This is what a cow molar looks like compared to a human molar:
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The small island in the middle of this picture is where Princess Diana is buried:
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In 1918, a suffragette offered the following advice “to young ladies” on marriage:
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Revolving fridges exist:
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This is what a $100 bill looked like in 1977, 2003, and 2017:
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Hedges can be absolutely massive:
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This is what the painting directly across from the “Mona Lisa” looks like:
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This is what Bruce Lee’s workout routine was in 1965:
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This is what a human skeleton looks like compared with a gorilla skeleton:
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This is what North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal, home to one of the world’s last uncontacted peoples, looks like from above:
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This is what a tumbleweed looks like before, well, it tumbles:
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This is what the “hand” of a manatee looks like:
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There are a whole bunch of trees on Earth that were planted with seeds that flew to the moon on Apollo 14:
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This is the executioner robe and axe of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, the official executioner of the Papal States in the 1800s:
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You’re probably familiar with the most terrifying looking fish in the ocean, the anglerfish…
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Well, this is how big the males of the species actually are:
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This is how big the anchor chains of a ship are:
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Recently, a Russian drone attacked a gigantic radiation confinement tower at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, inflicting damage that required some repairs:
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Here’s a closer look at the people fixing the damage, to give you a better scale of the whole thing:
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Speaking Chernobyl, this is the famous Azure Swimming Pool before the nuclear disaster…
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And the same swimming pool today:
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If you shine a black light on an Illinois driver’s license, Abe Lincoln will be wearing a hat:
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This is what the back of a soda fountain looks like:
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The tiny island of Zavikon is home to the world’s shortest international bridge, spanning from the owner’s house, located in Canada, to their backyard, located in New York:
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Some bars have… landing zones for the especially inebriated folks navigating the stairs:
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This is a picture of Mars that was taken THIS MONTH:
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While we’re on the subject, this is the last picture the Mars Opportunity rover took:
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This is what Antarctica looks like from space:
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This is the world’s largest chocolate bar, weighing in at over 12,000 pounds:
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This is what a lion getting a CT scan looks like:
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This is how big the vertical slab on an A380 plane is:
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This is Alfred Langevin, a man renowned for his very useful talent of being able to smoke out of his eyeball:
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This is what an upside-down iceberg looks like:
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This is what the world’s first domestic vacuum cleaner looked like in 1906:
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In the early 1900s, Sears sold entire mail order homes that would be shipped via train and put together by whoever bought one. This house cost $5,375:
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This is what the inside of a bungee cord looks like:
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This is Joseph C. Gayetty, the man who invented commercial toilet paper:
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It’s worth noting that toilet paper from that era looked very, very uncomfortable:
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This is what cinnamon looks like fresh off the tree:
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This is what years and years of layers of graffiti looks like:
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Australia lets its citizens know exactly how their tax dollars are spent:
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Speaking of Australia, there’s a whole lot of nothing:
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Over 2,000 years ago, a child living in ancient Rome made this footprint in a clay tile while it was drying:
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This is what the start of a river looks like:
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This is what an x-ray of a six-fingered hand looks like:
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It cost just about $100 to give birth in 1956:
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This glorious 1200 year old specimen is the biggest, best-preserved piece of human poop:
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This is a hammer-headed bat, an absolutely enormous fruit bat with an average wingspan of over three feet:
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Speaking of gigantic animals, check out the size of this here lobster claw:
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This is what a condom from the 1700s looked like:
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This is a display of ancient Egyptian furniture, from sometime around 1,500 BCE:
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This is the Brewster armor suit, one of the first fully functional suits of body armor designed for World War I combat:
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This exhibit shows what happens to marble over time if people are allowed to stick their grubby little paws all over it:
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This is the check for $7.2 million, issued Aug. 1, 1868, that the US sent to Russia for the purchase of Alaska:
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Bolts? Bolts can be absolutely gigantic:
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In Finland’s Riisitunturi National Park, the extreme cold transforms trees into stunning, snow-covered sculptures, creating a surreal winter landscape:
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These are apparently the requirements for being a flight attendant for one airline in 1954:
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This is what a deviled ostrich egg looks like:
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35 years ago, on February 14, 1990, the iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot’ photo was captured, showing Earth as a tiny speck from 3.7 billion miles away:
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In 1990, the very first McDonald’s opened up in the Soviet Union. This is how gigantic the line was:
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And following the invasion of Ukraine, McDonald’s sold its entire Russian operation to a Russian businessperson, resulting in over 800 restaurants being rebranded as “Delicious. Full Stop”:
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This is the first-ever photograph of an operation, taken in 1847 in Boston:
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This is what a new pair of goggles looks like to a pair that was used frequently for a six months:
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People were talking about climate change as long as 111 years ago:
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This is the PAGEOS satellite being inflated in 1965 before being put into orbit the next year:
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There used to be cocaine in toothache drops:
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Fingers can grow back. FINGERS CAN GROW BACK:
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And, finally, nothing can push the boundaries of all we know about physics and space and time more than a dad’s wallet:
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