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This, snapped the day before his death, is one of the last pictures ever taken of Pope Francis:
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And here’s what Pope Francis looked like as a young man:
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This is what Niagara falls looks like from way, way above:
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This, my friends, is what a pregnant horse looks like:
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This is what a human skeleton looks like next to a gorilla’s skeleton:
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This is Fernand Meyssonnier, France’s last executioner, standing next to one of the guillotines he used on the job:
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And here’s a mask an executioner would typically wear:
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This is what the USS Midway looks like compared to a person in a kayak:
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This is what the bottom of the deepest trench on Earth, the Mariana Trench, looks like:
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In the mid-80s, the Statue of Liberty was completely covered in scafolding while being renovated:
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Over 2.5 MILLION people attended Lady Gaga’s show in Brazil last month. Here’s what millions of people in one place looks like:
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This comparison of the graphics of Grand Theft Auto V and the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI has been making the rounds. The jump in graphical fidelity is incredible:
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This is what an x-ray of a baby’s hand looks like:
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In 1731, King Frederick I of Sweden was gifted with a lion that, after its death, he sent to be stuffed and preserved. The only issue was that the people doing the taxidermy had never actually seen a lion. This, the Lion of Gripsholm Castle, is the finished product:
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Speaking of terrible taxidermy and fossil reconstruction, this is the Magdeburg Unicorn, quite possibly the worst fossil reconstruction ever:
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This is Steven Spielberg on top of Bruce, the animatronic shark that, well, played Jaws in Jaws:
Here’s a look at the full Jaws fake-shark rig:
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In 2001, there was a huge dust storm on Mars that obscured the whole planet from the outside:
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This is what a lizard getting a CT scan looks like:
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The is the one-time record holder for world’s heaviest hamburger:
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Deep scars don’t sweat, so dirt doesn’t stick to them:
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Quarters… quarters can be very, very tiny:
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This is what a World War II combat helmet looks like compared to a World War I combat helmet:
Here’s the other side of the helmets:
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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 a nuclear warhead looks like:
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In 1924, a game of Human Chess was played in the Soviet Union:
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This is what a four person see-saw looks like:
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Some libraries let you know just how much money you save by going to them:
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This is what a golf course green that’s been struck by lightning looks like:
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This is what a Coke bottle from 48 years ago looked like:
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The original Pledge of Allegiance didn’t include “under God”:
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The year 2025 is the first year that’s a square number since 1936:
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This is “Boy Samson,” the 14-year-old “strongest boy in the world” holding up a grown man on a motorcycle circa 1932:
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This is how much it cost to buy a whole bunch of groceries in 1988, almost 40 years ago:
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This is what the first class menu looked like on the Titanic the day the ship sunk:
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And this is what the Second Class menu looked like that same day:
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And, for good measure, this is what the third class menu looked like that day so many of them tragically died:
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This is what the World Trade Center looked like at the very beginning of its construction:
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This is what a fusion reactor looks like compared to a person:
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This is Igor Sikorsky, inventor of the world’s first “practical” helicopter, getting ready to take off in his contraption:
And here he is in the air:
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Some playgrounds have special “wheelchair only” swings:
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This is Norwegian speed skater Oscar Mathisen pictured with his many, many, many, many awards and honors throughout the early 1900s:
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This is what a pair of maraschino cherries put through a dishwasher looks like:
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Here’s a scientist testing out a hands-free shaving machine that used robotic arms:
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Strawberries, my boy… strawberries can be very, very big:
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And dogs? Dogs can be gigantic:
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And frogs, my boy… frogs can be very, very tiny:
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This is a group of World War I soldiers creating a “Human Liberty Bell” at Camp Dix in 1918:
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This is 17-year-old Bryn Owen and his, frankly, ludicrous amount of mirrors on his Vespa:
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Here’s a scene from the 1924 Olympics gold medal hockey game between the USA and Canada:
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This is what Meryal Waterpark, home of the world’s tallest waterslide, looking like while it was under construction in Qatar:
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This is what Earth looks like from 3.7 billion miles away:
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This is what the grave of HR Giger, creator of the design of the alien from Alien, looks like:
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Speaking of which, the new Pope Leo went to a World Series game in 2005 and was caught on TV:
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This is what caffeine looks like under a microscope:
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This is Henry Behrens, at one time the world’s smallest man, doing a little tango with a cat:
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This is planet J1407b, a, I quote, “Super-saturn” with “over 30 rings, each stretching over tens of millions of kilometers in diameter:”
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This is what the remains of a World War I trench looks like today:
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This picture, from the early 1900s, shows an early basketball game, kneepads and all:
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Here’s another photo of a vintage basketball player, standing in front of a piano and striking fear into the hearts of his opponents:
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This is what Stephen Hawking’s grave looks like:
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This isn’t a fake picture of your worst “driving nightmare.” It’s the Hisashimichi Interchange, located near Tokyo, perhaps one of the most complicated roads in the world:
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This is what the nerve inside a tooth looks like:
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This is what the knots on the outside of a tree look like on the inside:
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Cough medicine used to be very, very, very strong:
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Finally, there’s a copperhead snake in this picture. Can you find it?
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