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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 how big Alaska is compared to Europe:
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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 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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You can buy gigantic safety pins:
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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 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 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 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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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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The original design for the Michelin Man was absolutely terrifying:
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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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A billion is a really, really big number:
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This is Charles Ponzi, the infamous scammer ponzi schemes got their name from:
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These are hand-drawn sketches of the phases of the moon Galileo Galilei drew in 1610:
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And, finally, this is what that tiny l’il ball in a Guinness beer looks like:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/interesting-pictures-dec-12
