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This is what a store-bought egg looks like compared with an egg bought at a farmers market:
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American Froot Loops and Canadian Froot Loops are totally different colors:
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This is what Michelangelo’s statue “David” looks like from behind:
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This is what a jail cell in Sweden’s biggest prison looks like:
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This, from 1896, is what one of Pablo Picasso’s first-ever self-portraits looks like:
And this, from 1972, is what one of Picasso’s last self-portraits looks like:
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This is what a mass of DNA looks like:
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This is how big a wolf’s paw print is compared with a human hand:
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This is what the set of Seinfeld looked like:
And this is what the set of I Love Lucy looks like in full color:
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Australia is really, really big:
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This is what a stack of $1,000 worth of uncirculated $1 bills looks like next to a stack of $1,000 worth of used $1 bills:
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This is what the “American Candy” section looks like in a UK store:
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And this is what the American section in a German sporting goods store looks like:
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Every king except for the king of hearts has a mustache:
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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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This is what the inside of a water tower looks like:
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This is what the late 7-foot-7-inch NBA legend Manute Bol looked like while swimming in a typical swimming pool:
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This is what the back of the “Mona Lisa” looks like:
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This is what a husky looks like compared with a wolf:
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America is still very, very young:
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This is what a human skeleton looks like compared with a gorilla skeleton:
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This is what a $500 bill looks like:
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Curved escalators exist:
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This right here is a photo from Abraham Lincoln’s first inauguration in 1861:
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This is what the world’s tallest man, Sultan Kosen, looks like next to his wife:
And this is what his hand looks like holding a can of Pepsi:
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This is what a cross-section of wood from the 1950s looks like compared with a cross-section of wood from today:
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Now, you’re obviously familiar with the front side of a peacock. It’s majestic. Glorious, even! But have you ever seen a peacock’s back side? Now you have:
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Cooling towers have an open bottom:
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You can tell the difference between cheap pasta and expensive pasta by looking at them:
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Screwdrivers…well, screwdrivers can be really, really big:
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This photo is one of only two photos in existence of the US Supreme Court in session:
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Highway signs are way bigger than your tiny little brain thought they were:
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This flag, from 1850, is one of two original and authentic Jolly Rogers in existence today:
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The small island in the middle of this picture is where Princess Diana is buried:
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This is what the host of Jeopardy‘s podium looks like during a show:
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Hospitals have machines that allow doctors and nurses to see exactly where your veins are:
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This is what the Rosetta stone looks like from the front…
And this is what the back of the Rosetta stone looks like:
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In the hours after he died, a bronze death mask was made of Napoleon Bonaparte’s face:
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This is what the biggest leaf ever found in the Amazon Rainforest looks like compared to a adult man:
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During World War II, the statue of “David” by Michelangelo was completely encased in bricks to prevent damage from bombs:
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This, in all its glory, is what the inside of the Wienermobile looks like:
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Elephants have “humanlike” breasts:
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This is the top hat Abraham Lincoln wore the night he was assassinated:
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A toucan’s skull looks very, very tiny next to its beak:
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This is what a “fresh cup” of banana juice looks like:
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This is what’s behind a movie screen:
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The is what a map of the world’s oceans and only the world’s oceans looks like:
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The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:
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This is what’s under a pool table:
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This is what a newborn baby hippo looks like:
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Some elevators have buttons you can press with your FEET:
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In the mid-1800s, any of these things could get you admitted to a “lunatic asylum”:
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This right here is a giant earthworm that was found in Queensland, Australia:
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This is the oldest picture of the White House ever taken:
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In 1939, Mahatma Gandhi wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler pleading with him not to go to war:
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This is what the Hindenburg looked like while it was under construction:
And this is what the dining hall looked like on board the finished zeppelin:
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This is the size of a flag flown on a Spanish ship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1905:
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This is what a real, authentic plague mask from the 1500s looked like:
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Social Security cards used to not be a flimsy little piece of paper:
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This is Herman the Cat, a cat who was given the title of expert mouser aboard a US Coast Guard ship during World War II:
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And finally, this is the letter President Jimmy Carter wrote and put aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft, intended for any aliens the probe might encounter:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/interesting-pictures-feb-2023