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This is what one prototype space suit designed for the Moon exploration looked like:
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Unfortunately, there’s no treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Just a lot of nothing:
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An entirely new chamber was discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza literally last week. This is what it looks like:
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This is what the world’s oldest soccer ball ever found looks like:
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In 1994, a 9GB drive cost over $4,000:
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This tea chest is one of two surviving chests from the Boston Tea Party back in 1773:
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This is what a paint stirrer used consistently for 10 years looks like:
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Up until 1994, Crayola Crayons’ copper-colored crayon had bronze powder in it, causing it to turn green over a long period of time:
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Frogs can be very, very, very, very, very tiny:
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And screws? Well, screws can be absolutely gigantic:
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Using a public toilet in ancient Rome was a real bonding experience:
This is what the bathroom situation might have looked like. Very relaxing and cool!
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There have been some really terrible and really out-there amendments proposed to the US constitution:
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It’s possible to get a 2×4 from the center of a tree:
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If a burn is bad enough, dirt will not stick to it anymore:
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This is the largest cemetery in the world, Wadi Al-Salaam Cemetery in Iraq:
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This is what a “modern” tomato looks like next to a tomato grown with 150 year old seeds:
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This set of 52 playing cards, dating back to the 1400s, is the oldest surviving example of a full deck of cards:
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Telephone lineworkers go to telephone lineworker school where they learn how to be telephone lineworker:
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Pens… pens can write a whole lot of words:
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This ancient comb contains the earliest known sentence written in the world’s first alphabet:
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And, finally, King Henry VIII’s armor had a very special feature:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/interesting-pictures-march-6-2023