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This is what an x-ray of a baby gorilla looks like:
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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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This is what the Great Sphinx of Giza looks like from above:
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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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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 is about to make landfall in China with the next day. This is what it looks like from space:
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Here’s another picture taken from space by astronaut Kimiya Yui:
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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?