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This is Daniel Lambert, a British man who was known world’s heaviest person in the 18th century:
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This is the first ever ticket sold for Disneyland:
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This is a loaf of sourdough bread that was miraculously preserved after the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 CE:
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Once upon a time, beer vending machines were a thing:
Whiskey vending machines, too:
Not to mention gin and tonic vending machines:
And, saints preserve us, potato vending machines:
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This is a picture of Pluto and its moons taken in 2006…
And this is a much, much clearer picture of Pluto taken only a decade later, in 2015:
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Speaking of which, this is one of the first photographs ever taken of the Earth from space…
And this is a picture of Earth that was taken 20 minutes before this article was published:
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Over 2,000 years ago a child living in ancient Rome made this footprint in a clay tile while it was drying:
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This is what a fish getting and CT scan looks like:
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This is what Bruce Lee’s workout routine was in 1965:
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This is Apo Whang-Od, a 106 year old woman who is quite possibly the oldest tattoo artist on the planet:
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This is a hammer-headed bat, an absolutely enormous fruit bat with an average wingspan of over three feet:
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Speaking of gigantic animals, check out the size of this here lobster claw:
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And dandelions, my friend… dandelions can be huge:
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Squids have hard, sharp beaks:
And this is what a giant squid’s beak looks like:
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This is what one part of the border between Belgium and the Netherlands looks like:
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This is how big an average-sized comet is compared to Paris:
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This is the executioner robe and axe of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, the official executioner of the Papal States in the 1800s:
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One of the largest, if not the largest, commercially available bed is the Alaska king, an absolute BEHEMOTH:
This is what it looks like in person:
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According to astronomers, this is the average color of the universe:
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This is Stephan Bibrowski, otherwise known as Lionel the Lion-faced Man. Stephan had a condition known as hypertrichosis that caused hair to grow up to eight inches long all over his body including, obviously, his face:
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The Nebraska women’s volleyball team just set a world record for the most attended women’s sporting event of all time, a match against Omaha that was attended by over 92,000 people:
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This is what a cross-section of a Boeing 747 looks like:
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Because they don’t allow artificial coloring, American Froot Loops and European Froot Loops are totally different:
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Speaking of which, this is what Fanta orange looks like in Europe:
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This is what a cow molar looks like compared to a human molar:
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This is the top hat Abraham Lincoln was wearing the night he was assassinated:
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This is what the cockpit of the now retired supersonic passenger airliner the Concorde looked like:
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This is the 1955 Mercedes 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe, the most expensive car ever sold:
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There’s a place called Ooh Aah Point at the Grand Canyon:
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This is what a banana looks like after a year of being left out:
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Watermelons…watermelons can be very, very tiny:
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This is what the start of a river looks like:
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This is what a python’s skeleton looks like:
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This is a display of ancient Egyptian furniture, from sometime around 1,500 BCE:
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And, finally, America is very, very young:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/interesting-pics-october-2023