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This is what Albert Einstein’s desk looked like on the day he died:
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This is how incredibly small a hummingbird feather is:
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This picture, taken in 1925, shows the passengers on an Imperial Airways flight watching one of the first in-flight movies ever:
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This is Stephen Taylor, the man with the world’s longest tongue:
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On February 7th, 1984 Bruce McCandless II performed the first ever untethered space walk and, folks, it looked absolutely terrifying:
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Before you could just put everything into the notes app on your iPhone, some people used metal grocery lists to do their shopping:
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Some chicken lay eggs with white yolks:
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This is what a $1,000 bill looks like:
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This is the safety net that was installed under the Golden Gate Bridge during its construction in the 1930s. The net saved 19 people throughout the duration of work:
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In 1731, King Frederick I of Sweden was gifted 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 what a baby pigeon looks like:
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This is the pistol Gavrilo Princip used to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand and set off World War I:
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This picture of Ramesses II’s Great Temple at Abu Simbel, taken in 1865, shows just how enormous the colossal statues in front of the entrance are:
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Here’s another angle:
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While we’re on the subject of incredible Egyptian art, this is a 3,000 year old ancient Egyptian painter’s palette, complete with six different colors:
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This x-ray, taken by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, is the first x-ray ever:
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This is Stephen Spielberg on top of Bruce, the animatronic shark that, well, played Jaws in Jaws:
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This is Emma Morano, the last living person to have been born in the 1800s:
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This is what Chigago’s Eureka building looked like after a winter fire was put out by the fire department:
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And, finally, car in the Canada’s Northwest Territories have polar bear license plates:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/interesting-pics-august-14-2023