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This is what the inside of a quarter looks like:
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And this is what a hummingbird egg looks like compared to an ostrich egg:
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This is what the face of the Statue of Liberty looked like before it was installed onto the monument:
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This is how big the anchor chain of the Titanic was:
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This totally not terrifying ancient, 9,000 year old mask is considered to be one of the earliest depictions of a human:
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This is how thick one of the cables that holds up the Golden Gate Bridge is:
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In 1903, Edward Llewellen (left) made history when he caught the world record biggest sea bass ever caught off the coast of Catalina Island:
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Speaking of big giant animals, here’s Hiram (center), the world’s largest horse as of 1907:
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Redwood trees are really, really, really, really big:
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This is Henry Ford cruising around in the first car he designed, the Quadricycle:
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You can see Queen Elizabeth get older and older through coins bearing her likeness:
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Speaking of which, here are two new coins that feature the just-coronated King Charles:
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This is Wojtek, a bear who was enlisted as a private in the Polish army during World War II:
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The Liberty Bell is super tiny in real life:
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Here are two men testing a bulletproof vest in the absolute safest way possible:
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This is the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki compared to a human:
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Helmets really, really work:
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Here’s Hannes de Jong, the 1970 Pole Sitting World Champion, well, sitting on a pole:
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This is what the first class bathroom on board looks like a high-speed Japanese bullet train:
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And, finally, this right here is a once state-of-the-art piece of armor that used to be worn by golf course workers sent out to retrieve range balls:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/interesting-pictures-may-8-2023
