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This is Wendy Thomas, the granddaughter of Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas and the namesake of the restaurant:
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This is what the passenger cabin on a Pan Am flight in the 1940s looked like:
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Some of the Titanic‘s deck chairs were salvaged from the wreck. Here’s what one of them looks like:
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In 1908, huge crowds gathered in Boston to watch Harry Houdini jump off a bridge while tied up in chains:
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This is John Smith, a Chippewa man who was reported to be 137 years old at the time of his death:
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Koalas have fingerprints that are extremely similar to human fingerprints:
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Playgrounds were extremely dangerous in the early 1900s:
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This is what the Taco Bell menu looked like in 1973:
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This silicon sphere is the roundest object in the world:
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This is the scene inside a Chicago bar on Dec. 5, 1933, the day Prohibition was repealed:
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This is what the McDonald’s menu looked like in the 1960s:
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This is what a college dorm room looked like in the 1890s:
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And here are two roommates palling around in a dorm room circa 1910:
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This is how big a human hand is compared with a polar bear’s footprint:
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This is what the Panama Canal looked like while it was under construction:
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This is what a mobile home looked like in the 1930s:
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Pocketknifes can be really, really, really, really, really tiny:
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This is how many barrels of wine the French army had supplied for their troops for the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I:
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This right here, ladies and gentlemen, is the world’s oldest cat door:
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This is what a turtle’s skeleton looks like:
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There are libraries that tell you exactly how much you’re saving by checking books out:
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And, finally, one of Queen Elizabeth’s childhood corgis was named Jane, and the other was named…Dookie:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/interesting-pictures-july-31-2023