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This is a wax sculpture of Thomas Wedders, the man whose 7.5-inch nose was apparently the largest nose in history:
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This is Ralph Lincoln, the 11th-generation cousin of Abraham Lincoln:
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This is what a polar bear’s paw print looks like compared with a human hand:
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Traffic lights are absolutely gigantic:
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This is what the toilet on a submarine looks like:
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This is the world’s tallest statue, the Statue of Unity:
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This is what the surface of an ASTEROID looks like:
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Redwood trees are absolutely gigantic:
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This is what an anaconda looks like in the wild:
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This is what a typhoon looks like from space:
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You’re probably familiar with the “Face on Mars,” an image of a formation on Mars from the 1970s that launched a million conspiracy theories…
…well, this is what a much less blurry, much more recent photograph of that same “face” looks like:
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Speaking of Mars, this is what a sunset looks like on that there planet:
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This is what the big ol’ noggin of the Statue Of Liberty looks like from the torch:
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This very, very, very tiny rectangle is $57 in gold:
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This is what one of the world’s oldest pairs of Levi’s jeans looks like:
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They sell red Solo cups as “American party cups” in New Zealand:
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These are what some of the Titanic‘s lifeboats looked like after they were docked in New York after the ship sunk:
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This is what the US-Canada border looks like in Idaho:
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Lots of US presidents have spoken multiple languages — here’s a list of every multilingual president:
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This just might set the world record for smallest hand-carved wooden spoon:
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This is the Queensland Stinger, one of the world’s most dangerous plants:
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This is the Murchison meteorite, a meteorite found in Australia that formed over seven billion years ago:
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Despite making up the vast majority of the country, only 2% of the Australian population lives inside the yellow highlight on this map:
And here’s a sign you might see before entering the yellow portion of that map of Australia:
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This is the Thanksgiving menu that was served at the Plaza Hotel in 1899:
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Those orange pylons in football end zones have so much technology in them that they require fans to operate:
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Cats, my friend…cats can get really, really big:
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And mushrooms? Well, mushrooms can be blue:
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Veneers don’t glow under a blacklight:
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The last McDonald’s in Iceland closed in 2009. Feast your eyes on the final cheeseburger sold in the country, which has been preserved and lying in state for the past decade:
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This is astronaut Dr. Joseph P. Allen IV doing maintenance on a satellite in the middle of the cold, dark void of space:
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Dirt doesn’t stick to scars or burns:
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There are little vaccine packets being dropped into wooded areas to help stop the spread of rabies:
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This is the world’s most isolated lighthouse, Thridrangar Lighthouse, located in Iceland:
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Speaking of isolated things, this is a house also located in Iceland that some have called the most isolated house in the world:
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In this picture, you can see both Europe and Africa:
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Sperm whales sleep vertically:
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This is what a peeled lime looks like:
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Reese’s orange is a trademarked color:
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To scale, this is how big a strand of human hair is compared to an egg cell:
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This is what some of the first New York City tour buses looked like in 1904:
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Champagne vending machines exist:
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This is how big the Democratic Republic of the Congo is compared to the east coast of the United States:
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This is how big an eagle’s talons are:
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This totally safe device was known as a baby cage, a wire cage suspended out of an apartment window meant to give babies born in cities extra light and air:
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This is Sorvagsvatn, a lake in the Faroe Islands known as “the lake that hangs over the ocean”:
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This is what an elephant’s tail looks like close up:
And this is what one of those tail hairs looks like up close:
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This is apparently a set of “instructions for new mothers” given to new moms in the 1940s:
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Bootleg Lego heads are terrifying:
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These are the shoes (well, shoe) Marie Antoinette wore to her execution during the French Revolution:
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Speaking of 18th and 19th century French history, Napoleon’s hat recently sold at auction for 2.1 million dollars:
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This is how big Canada and the USA are compared to Europe:
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Here’s a list of every named generation going back to the 1400s:
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This is what a float from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade looked like in the 1930s:
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This is what Ireland looks like from space:
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This is what in-flight entertainment looked like in the 1960s:
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This is the tree that will be used as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree for the 2023 holiday season:
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This is what Jupiter would look like if it was as close as the Moon:
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This is how big a wolf is in comparison to a human:
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In 1984, a giant dinosaur replica was moved via a helicopter to the Boston Museum of Science:
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This is what first coat of paint on a painting looks like compared to the final coat:
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This is a picture from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Can you spot Abe?
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These are three of the smallest bones in your body, all located in your ear: the malleus, the incus, and the stapes:
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This is what a flying fish looks like, wings outstretched:
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This is a close-up of some well-worn pebbles on the surface of Mars:
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And, folks, this is what a baby flamingo looks like:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/interesting-pictures-november-2023