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In Germany, Mr. Clean is known as Mr. Proper:
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While in Spain, he’s known as Don Limpio:
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A smidgen is an actual unit of measurement:
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This is how big Alaska is compared to Europe:
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This is Robert Wadlow, the tallest man who ever lived:
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And here’s Mr. Wadlow with his slightly shorter dad:
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This is what the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC looked like in 1907:
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And this is what it looked like 100 years later:
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This is what one of Shaq’s championship rings looks like on a typical-sized human hand:
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These are two of the earliest known photographs of Saturn and Jupiter, taken in the 19th century:
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This is what an intact, peeled egg looks like:
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And this is what a big ol’ chunk of a peeled aloe plant looks like:
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This is what the First Class Lounge on the Titanic looked like:
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And this is what the Third Class dining room of the Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic, looked like:
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The man in the middle in this picture is a college-aged Richard Nixon:
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This is the Times Building, the center of New York’s Times Square, under construction in 1903:
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And here’s what that same area looks like over a hundred years later:
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This is the last image NASA’s InSight rover sent from Mars before running out of power at the end of its mission last month:
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This monument to the doomed Donner Party shows just how deep the snow the unfortunate travelers had to deal with was:
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This is what Abraham Lincoln looked like when he became president in 1861…
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…and this is what he looked like four short years later, in 1865:
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The original design for the Michelin Man was absolutely terrifying:
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You can buy gigantic safety pins:
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In 1933, A.L. Kahn caught a 5,000-pound manta ray off the coast of Florida:
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A billion is a really, really big number:
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That tiny little fellah on the left there is a normal clothes dryer compared to a commercial dryer on its right:
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This man, Tom Pearcy, set the world record for “largest pumpkin boat” in 2018:
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This is what the Golden Gate Bridge looked like while it was under construction:
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This is Charles Ponzi, the infamous scammer ponzi schemes got their name from:
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This is Pauline Musters, the shortest woman ever to live:
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These are hand-drawn sketches of the phases of the moon Galileo Galilei drew in 1610:
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Emu eggs look like something straight out of Game of Thrones:
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In 1926, two students were able to fully dissect an entire intact nervous system from a human body:
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Hotels used to have to put up signs explaining that electricity is safe and not to be feared:
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In 1955, it cost $4.75 to go on 10 rides at Disneyland:
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In the 1930s, this couple won an Atlantic City dance marathon after dancing for 1,473 hours:
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And, yes, people did fall asleep standing up while dancing at these marathons:
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Someone had to hand-carve all of the presidents’ eyes on Mount Rushmore:
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This is what that tiny li’l ball in a Guinness beer looks like:
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This extremely complicated thing is what the steering wheel of a Formula 1 race car looks like:
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This is the message then-president Jimmy Carter sent aboard the Voyager spacecraft to any aliens the ship might encounter:
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California once had a place called the California Alligator Farm where children were encouraged to get up close and personal with alligators and even take them for rides:
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This terrifying picture is a closeup of a man with Bruce, the mechanical shark created for the movie Jaws:
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This is what a toucan’s skeleton looks like:
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This is a real 19th-century advertisement for cough medicine with a very special ingredient — heroin:
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In Las Vegas in 1955, you could purchase a hotel plot for $3 million:
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In 2003, it was discovered that a full-grown, 400-pound Bengal tiger was being kept as a pet in a New York City apartment. Police were able to rescue the tiger, and he lived out the rest of his life in an Ohio animal sanctuary:
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In 1876, Virgil A. Gates patented the “Moustache Guard,” an absolutely brilliant invention for “holding the moustache out of the way of food or liquid while eating or drinking”:
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This is what a 100-year-old marriage certificate looks like:
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And, finally, most importantly, bananas float in rum but sink in cognac:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/interesting-pictures-dec
