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This is what the face of the Statue of Liberty looked like before it was installed onto the monument:
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Redwood trees are really, really, really, really big:
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This is how thick one of the cables that holds up the Golden Gate Bridge is:
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This is what economy class on a commercial plane looked like in the 1960s:
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This is Charlotte and Majorie Collyer, a mother and daughter who survived the wreck of the Titanic in 1912:
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This is what the inside of a hedge looks like:
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And this is what the inside of a quarter looks like:
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The Liberty Bell is super tiny in real life:
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Panda caretakers in China wear disguises to avoid spooking the cubs and to help acclimate them to their new lives outside of captivity:
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This is how an offshore oil platform is transported to the location where it will be installed:
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This is what Mount St. Helens looked like before it erupted in 1980, becoming the deadliest volcanic eruption in US history…
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And this is what Mount St. Helens looked like after the 1980 eruption:
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This is what the blowhole on a humpback whale looks like:
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And this is what a hummingbird egg looks like compared to an ostrich egg:
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In 1903, Edward Llewellen (left) made history by breaking the world record and catching the biggest sea bass ever caught off the coast of Catalina Island:
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Speaking of big giant animals, here’s Hiram (center), the world’s largest horse as of 1907:
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This is the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki compared to a human:
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This is what EPCOT in Disney World looked like while it was under construction:
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This is what a stairwell that doesn’t loop around and only goes in one direction looks like:
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Car seats for children were incredibly dangerous in the 1940s:
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This is a rafflesia, the biggest flower in the world:
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This is what the Space Shuttle Endeavour looked like as it left Earth and traveled to outer space:
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This is what $700 worth of platinum looks like:
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In 1969, Niagara Falls was “drained” in order to remove a large number of boulders that had accumulated at the foot of the falls:
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Speaking of which, this is what a canal in Venice looks like fully drained:
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This is what a turtle’s skeleton looks like:
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This picture, taken in 1925, is the last known photo of a Barbary lion in the wild:
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This is what the Statue of Liberty looks like from the back:
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This is what Gutzon Borglum’s original model for Mount Rushmore looked like:
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This is what the view of downtown Manhattan looked like from the Empire State Building the year it opened in 1931…
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And this is what that same view looks like today:
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This is how good Disney World is at hiding their rides, specifically the Haunted Mansion:
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You can see Queen Elizabeth get older and older through coins bearing her likeness:
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Speaking of which, here are two new coins that feature the just-coronated King Charles:
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This totally not terrifying ancient, 9,000-year-old mask is considered to be one of the earliest depictions of a human:
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This is what the first class bathroom on board a high-speed Japanese bullet train looks like:
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This house, located in Alexandria, Virginia, is the thinnest house in the United States:
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This is the last picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever taken, snapped just one day before his death:
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This is what olive oil looks like when it’s freshly squeezed:
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The very first iteration of Ronald McDonald was created by Willard Scott in 1963:
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This is what the bottom of a lily pad looks like:
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This is what the battleship USS Independence looks like outside of water:
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This is what a Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying animal ever recorded, looks like compared to a human:
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This is the “American Candy” section in a British gas station:
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This is a picture of 107-year-old Civil War veteran Bill Lundy posing with a fighter jet in 1955:
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This is what one college student’s dorm room looked like in the 1910s:
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Curved escalators are a thing that exist:
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Traffic lights are absolutely enormous:
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This is what a tumbleweed looks like before it…tumbles:
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This, my friends, is what the inside of a bag of microwave popcorn looks like:
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This is what the control room on a British submarine looked like in the 1960s:
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This is Henry Ford cruising around in the first car he designed, the Quadricycle:
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Helmets really, really work:
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Here’s Hannes de Jong, the 1970 Pole Sitting World Champion, well, sitting on a pole:
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This 12-foot-tall behemoth is an octobass, the largest string instrument in existence:
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This right here is a once state-of-the-art piece of armor that used to be worn by golf course workers sent out to retrieve range balls:
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This is what the inside of a Coca-Cola Freestyle machine looks like:
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This is what a penguin’s skeleton looks like:
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This is what the first-class bathroom aboard Emirates airline looks like:
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And, finally, in 1961, auditions were held for the role of the black cat in the film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat.” Lots of black cats showed up:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/interesting-pictures-may-2023
