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This is what Netflix’s homepage looked like in 1999, one year after it launched:
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This isn’t a big ol’ grape. It’s the world’s largest single-celled organism:
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This is what Mount Saint Helens looked like before and after its 1980 eruption:
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This is artist Dario Campanile next to the painting he made for Paramount’s 75th anniversary. The painting would go on to be the source of the company’s subsequent logos:
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This is what a cyclist’s legs look like after competing in the Tour De France:
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This is what New York City looked like from space on 9/11/2001:
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Plastic surgery has been around for a long time—here are some examples from the 1920s:
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Here’s another example of a facelift from the 1920s:
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This is what the Korean penisula — North Korea on top, South Korea on bottom – looks like from space:
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This is a rubber beauty mask designed to eliminate wrinkles, massage the face, and promote skin health from the 1920s:
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Some chickens lay eggs with white yolks:
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There is a set of intact, neatly stacked plates inside the wreckage of the Titanic:
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This monument marks the location of the first ever nuclear bomb explosion:
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These bad boys are the oldest pair of pants ever discovered, dating back to over 3,000 years ago:
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This is what Florida looks like from space:
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These are the prices from a 107 years ago from a restaurant in Alabama:
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Before he was James Bond, Sean Connery competed in the Mr. Universe pageant in 1953:
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Most of the palm trees you see out and about are trimmed. Here’s what a bunch of un-trimmed ones look like:
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This is what a young Joseph Stalin looked like:
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Elephant seals are absolutely gigantic:
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This is what a kidney stone looks like under an electron microscope:
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This is what the United Kingdom looked like from space during the winter of 2010:
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Speaking of big giant animals, here’s Hiram (center), the world’s largest horse as of 1907:
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Some Australian beaches have “emergency vinegar” to treat jellyfish stings:
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This is a picture of the spectators, including alleged mobsters, covering their faces with hats to avoid recognition during Al Capone’s trial in October 1931:
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Smoking does a doozy to your walls:
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Sugargliders have tiny little sugarglider fingerprints:
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This is the exact gun John Wilkes Booth used to kill Abraham Lincoln:
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This is what happens to your knee replacement if you’re cremated:
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This is the first aerial photo ever taken, captured by James Wallace Black from a hot-air balloon high above Boston:
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This is what an authentic, mint condition Woodstock 1969 ticket looks like:
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I’m sure you’re aware that every St. Patrick’s Day, Chicago transforms its river into a vibrant shade of green…
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Well, did you know the dye is actually ORANGE?
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After World War I, sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd led a team that crafted realistic masks to restore the faces of injured soldiers:
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This is Louisa Ann Swain, the first American woman to ever vote in a general election:
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Cacti are a great way to measure progress:
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Here’s what a beluga whale looks like from below:
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This is apparently an eighth-grade test from 1912. Are you passing it?
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This is Stephen Taylor, the man with the world’s longest tongue:
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This is what the foundation of a skyscraper looks like:
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Some finger prosthetics have fingerprints:
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This is what the Pacific Ocean looks like from space:
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Here’s a picture of a very safe, normal setup for parents and a baby to enjoy ice skating from the late 1930s:
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Speaking of babies, they used to travel up with the luggage on planes:
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Looks totally fine to me:
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This is how big a moose’s tooth is:
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Some places use really, really, really, really long brooms to dust the ceiling:
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This is what a credit card from the 1950s looked like:
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This is what a hippo’s skull looks like compared to a human skull:
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Deep sea wolf eels are absolutely terrifying:
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You can not only EAT pinecones but you can also make jam from them:
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Here’s a topographic map of Africa, showing off the many mountains within the continent:
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Both seals and sea lions have nails:
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This is what a hairless raccoon looks like:
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This is what’s on an “American” pizza in the Czech Republic:
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Finally, let’s end by looking at the TRUE color of every planet in our solar system. This is what color Mercury really is:
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And this is what Venus looks like to the naked eye:
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Here’s where you are, Earth, in true color:
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This is what Mars looks like in real color:
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And this is what Jupiter looks like without any filters:
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Here’s Saturn in all its true-color glory:
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And this is Uranus in real color:
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Here’s Neptune in true color:
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And, finally, here’s our little dwarf planet warrior, Pluto, in real color:
