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This is George Hackenschmidt, the man credited with inventing the bench press:
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For a brief but wondrous moment in time, you could get potatoes from a vending machine:
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This is Chandra Bahadur, the shortest man in recorded history:
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And here is Chandra Bahadur next to the world’s tallest man, Sultan Kosen:
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This is what the end of the eastern portion of the Great Wall of China looks like:
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This is what a bunch of fossilized dinosaur eggs look like:
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There’s an abandoned island sitting off the coast of Nagasaki in Japan:
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This is Selma Burke, the woman who designed the portrait of Franklin Roosevelt that’s still on the dime to this day:
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There’s a breed of horse known as a Bashkir Curly that has, well, curly hair:
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This is the Swiss mini-gun, the smallest working pistol in the world:
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This is what an ultraviolet picture of the sun looks like:
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This is the Peel P50, the smallest car ever produced:
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This is what the back of the Price Is Right wheel looks like:
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This is the Murchison meteorite, a meteorite found in Australia that formed over 7 billion years ago:
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And, while we’re at it, this is what a super tiny meteorite looks like next to a quarter:
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This is what a professional cyclist’s leg looks like after a race:
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Some blood drives will let you know exactly when and where your blood is used to help save a patient:
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This is a typewriter built specifically for writing musical notation:
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This is what the view from the top of Mount Rushmore looks like:
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And, finally, one of the more ridiculous inventions of the 19th century was this, a “mass shaving machine” designed to shave a bunch of men all at once:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/interesting-pictures-june-20-2023