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Everything I Thought I Knew About The World Completely Changed After Seeing These 60 Absolutely Mind-Blowing Photos


Everything I Thought I Knew About The World Completely Changed After Seeing These 60 Absolutely Mind-Blowing Photos

1.

This is what the eye of a hurricane looks like from above:

2.

Here’s the difference in forearm development between a professional tennis player’s racket hand and their non-dominant hand:

3.

This is what a lion’s fang looks like compared to a cat’s fang:

4.

This is a picture of Earth from ONE HOUR ago:

5.

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:

6.

This is what old growth lumber looks like compared to factory farmed lumber:

7.

This is what an x-ray of a pregnant dog looks like:

8.

This is what a 20 year old Dolly Parton looked like:

9.

This is one of the last pictures of the Titanic ever taken:

10.

This is how big the tire on a 994 loader construction vehicle is:

11.

Here’s what a treadmill looked like in the 1920s:

12.

34 years old looks very different on some people:

13.

Here’s how big the propellers of a modern cruise ship are compared to a person:

14.

That’s not a tiny strand of hair, it’s actually an extremely small drill bit used for constructing models:

15.

This is how big ostrich eggs are:

16.

This is what a human hand looks like compared to a gorilla’s hand:

17.

The eyes of Michelangelo’s “David” are heart-shaped:

18.

This is investor Walter Thornton trying to sell his car for $100 directly after the United States’ stock market crash in 1929:

19.

You can see volcanic eruptions on Jupiter’s moon Io from space:

20.

Speaking of IO, here’s a picture of one of the moon’s most unique mountains, named “Steeple Mountain:”

21.

This is what the inside of an early passenger airline looked like:

22.

Hospitals have vein-finders that allow you to shine a line on your body and reveal where your, well, veins are:

23.

This is the world’s tallest yew hedge, planted in the 1700s and standing over 45 feet tall:

24.

This is what a $10 coin looks like:

25.

This is what the “American section” in a Belgian grocery store looks like:

26.

In 1936, architect André Basdevant proposed making the Eiffel Tower accessible by car. It would look like this:

27.

This is Martin Laurello, AKA “The Human Owl,” a sideshow performer from the early 1900s who could turn his head almost completely around:

28.

Here’s what a wolf spider looks like HEAD ON:

29.

Speaking of creepy eyes, some scallops have a ton of tiny little blue eyes:

30.

The extra large size of mayonnaise in some European countries is known as “AMERICAN SIZE:”

31.

This is a shot of planet Xeblar-149 — just kidding. It’s a close-up of a blueberry under an electron microscope:

32.

This wild-looking thing is a balloon apron from World War I, a giant net suspended from balloons that was used to help protect England from aerial attacks:

33.

This set of Roman dice, dating from the first to third century AD, has dots identical to those we use today:

34.

Queen Elizabeth’s dollhouse was as big as, well, you know, a house:

35.

This is what the skeleton of a python looks like:

36.

This is what the Himalayan mountain range looks like from space:

37.

Vintage cough syrups used to have some… interesting ingredients:

38.

Asphalt, folks… it gets really hot:

39.

The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is shrinking:

40.

This beauty is Britain’s oldest door, constructed almost 1,000 years ago in the 1050s:

41.

This is what it looks like when a ferris wheel gets deconstructed and taken apart:

42.

Allen keys can be absolutely gigantic:

43.

Sun screen is very, very, very, very important:

44.

You can buy a signed Babe Ruth baseball from Costco:

45.

Huntington Beach in California used to have a bunch of oil derricks on top of it:

46.

This is the view from the toilet on the 155th floor of the United Arab Emirates’ Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world:

47.

This is Canadian rancher Jim Sautner and his pet buffalo Bailey, a two-ton bison he raised and let live in his home:

48.

This is what a turtle getting an X-ray looks like:

49.

This is what a human’s skeleton looks like next to the forelimb of a whale:

50.

This is Hans Steininger, a man known for his four-foot beard that allegedly caused his death after he tripped on it:

The beard is a now in a museum:

51.

Sometimes plucked hairs can take on fun little shapes:

52.

This is what a wild peanut growing out of the ground looks like:

53.

This is the bust of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that was used as a model for the design on the dime:

54.

Baby zebras are born with brown stripes before they eventually turn black:

55.

The picture, from 1930, shows what the Empire State Building looked like while it was under construction:

56.

This is what a handful of 200 year old nails look like compared to modern nails:

57.

So many people lose their hats at the Hoover Dam that there’s basically a hat graveyard at the bottom:

58.

This is what first class looked like on a plane in the 1950s:

59.

2XL is the United States is equivalent to 4XL in Australia and Europe:

60.

And, finally, this is what the OTHER side of a ladybug looks like:

Dave Stopera

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