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This is what an owl looks like without feathers:
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Michelangelo’s “David” is really, really big:
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There’s a museum where you can touch a piece of the Titanic’s hull:
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This is what the economy class meal on a Japanese airline looks like:
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This 440-pound gold bar, located in Japan, is the largest gold ingot in the world:
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This is how big a nuclear cooling tower is compared to a person:
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This is how big the Eremotherium Laurillardi, also known as the giant ground sloth, was compared to a modern day human:
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This is what an albino raccoon looks like:
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This is the unfinished portrait of George Washington that was used as a basis for the design of the $1 bill:
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This is what Alex Trebek’s Jeopardy podium looked like during a typical show:
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Jonathan the tortoise, the oldest living animal on land, just turned 191 years young this past year:
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If you look at a car seat’s heating system with a thermal camera, it looks like this:
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See those little specks there? Those are baby octopuses:
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This pointy thing is what a nuclear bomb actually looks like:
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Andrew Jackson was one of the first United States presidents to be photographed. Here he is in 1844:
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These are the boots Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, wore on the 1972 Apollo 17 mission:
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This is what baby hedgehogs look like:
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This is how big a giant squid is compared with a human being:
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UPS drivers have special UPS socks as part of their uniform:
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In case you didn’t know, Brussels sprouts grow like this:
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Bobsled tracks go almost completely vertical:
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This is what’s inside a bag of microwavable popcorn:
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You are, of course, familiar with Grant Wood’s painting “American Gothic”…
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…well, this is what it looks like from inside the actual house in the painting:
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This is what the back of the Rosetta stone looks like:
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This is what color Venus is in real life:
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There’s a trap door on the Sphinx:
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There was a lake in Australia named Lake Disappointment:
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This adorable little thing is a hummingbird’s feather:
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The geographic center of the United States is here in South Dakota:
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These are the real-life outfits doctors would wear to treat plague patients in the 1600s:
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There’s a bird that looks like a strawberry that’s called, well, the strawberry finch:
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Gorilla hands are much, much bigger than human hands:
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This is a pair of one of the earliest discovered pairs of socks, made in Egypt in the 5th century:
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Before the invention of radar, this is one way people used to listen to and detect enemy planes:
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Termite hills can be absolutely gigantic:
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Screws…screws can be really, really big:
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While we’re talking about larger than normal things, check out this giant keyboard:
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Space and time is absolutely nuts:
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Speaking of the moon, here’s how big the African continent is compared to the Moon:
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This is what a 420-pound dumbbell looks like:
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This is what a big ol’ hunk of fresh wasabi looks like:
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There is a very real chance that Pablo Picasso listened to the song “Sweet Caroline”:
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A pickle under ultraviolet light looks like something from a fantasy novel:
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Lemons…lemons can be huge:
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This is how huge the entrance to the Roman Temple of Bacchus is:
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This is what a car cut in half looks like:
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This is a tarantula hawk, a wasp whose sting is known to be one of the most painful on planet Earth:
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This is what Shaq looks like holding a piece of paper:
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And, finally, as of 2017 there were precisely six McDonald’s on the island of Guam:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/interesting-facts-january-2024