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This is what the view of downtown Manhattan looked like from the Empire State Building the year it opened in 1931…
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And this is what that same view looks like today:
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Speaking of New York City, this home used to sit on West 84th Street and Broadway in 1874. It’s also where Edgar Allen Poe (probably) wrote The Raven:
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This, my friends, is what the inside of a bag of microwave popcorn looks like:
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This is how good Disney World is at hiding their rides, specifically the Haunted Mansion:
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This is what a Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying animal ever recorded, looks like compared to a human:
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Speaking of giant extinct animals, this is how big the largest shark that ever lived, the Megalodon, was compared to a human:
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This is what the control room on a British submarine looked like in the 1960s:
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This is a picture of 107-year-old Civil War veteran Bill Lundy posing with a fighter jet in 1955:
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This is what a tumbleweed looks like before it…tumbles:
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The inside of a fire alarm is just a tiny little switch:
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Notre Dame cathedral used to have a parking lot out front:
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This is the last picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever taken, snapped just one day before his death:
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And, just for fun, this is a picture of FDR as a baby:
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Here’s a different perspective on Earth centered around Antarctica:
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This is what a penguin’s skeleton looks like:
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This is Hannah Stilley Gorby, the oldest person to ever have been photographed:
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This is Methuselah, the oldest tree in the world:
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This is what the back of a bowling alley lane looks like:
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This is Ham, the first chimpanzee in space, enjoying a celebratory apple after successfully making it 160 miles above Earth:
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And, finally, stop signs can be very, very, very, very, very tiny:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/interesting-pictures-may-30-2023