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This is how horses fly on a plane:
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This is one of the few known photos of Vincent van Gogh, shown here at age 20:
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This is the 2.7mm Kolibri, the world’s smallest pistol:
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In a French deck of playing cards, instead of seeing J, Q, and K, you’ll see V, D, and R:
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This is what Bob Ross looked like before he had his iconic hairdo:
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This is a picture of the ice mountains of Pluto as seen from the New Horizons space probe:
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Also, while we’re at it, this is how big Pluto (above its moon Charon) is compared with North America:
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These were some of the job necessities for a TWA flight attendant in the 1940s:
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This is what Hong Kong looked like circa 1920…
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And here’s what it looks like today:
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This is the last photograph ever taken of the Titanic:
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And this, in all its 1912 glory, is what a first-class suite looked like on the ship:
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Michelangelo’s “David” is gigantic:
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There’s a device called a Vein Viewer that shows doctors and nurses where your veins are located:
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This is what cigarette smoke does to a wall:
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The United States once had a $10,000 bill, the largest denomination of US currency ever produced for public use:
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Texas makes Europe look super small:
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And, for a little perspective, this is what the entire United States looks like compare to just a small part of the planet Saturn’s north pole:
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A school bus looks like a tiny little baby next to a haul truck:
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Here’s a haul truck next to two normal-size humans:
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This is what Charlie Chaplin looked like as a young man:
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For reference, here’s how you’re probably used to remembering Charlie Chaplin:
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And just for good measure, here’s what an eightysomething Charlie Chaplin looked like:
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This is how big a baby kangaroo is when it’s born:
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This is what a 100-sided die looks like:
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You’re probably familiar with the front of King Tut’s iconic death mask:
Well, this is what the back looks like:
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This is María Branyas, a 115-year-old woman who just became the oldest living person on Earth as of January 17, 2023:
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There’s a beer bottle 35,000 feet down into the deepest point of Earth, the Challenger Deep:
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This is the chair Abraham Lincoln was sitting in the night he was assassinated:
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This is what the inside of the Leaning Tower of Pisa looks like:
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You’re probably familiar with a blob fish, that lovable, kinda human-looking fish with the super-weird face:
Well, this is what a blob fish looks like in its natural environment, before it’s been subjected to immense changes in pressure:
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This is one of the only pictures of President Andrew Jackson, taken shortly before his death in 1845:
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This is what a shark’s brain looks like compared to a dolphin’s brain:
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Tourists used to be able to freely climb up the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt to sunbathe and have tea parties:
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This is what a closeup of a line drawn with a red crayon on a piece of paper looks like under a microscope:
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The man on the left, Muggsy Bogues, played in the NBA almost twice as long as the man on the right, Yao Ming:
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This is what Albert Einstein’s desk looked like on the day he died:
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And, again, we all know Mount Rushmore:
But have you seen the back? This is what Mount Rushmore looks like from behind:
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The two people depicted in Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” actually exist. This is what they looked like:
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Changing gears to something of totally equal importance, you can spell “BILLIE EILISH” on a calculator:
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This is what happens when you polish a coconut:
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This is what the Statue of Liberty looked like while it was under construction in France:
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Really tiny single-person benches exist:
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This is what the inside of the White House looked like when it was being reconstructed in the late 1940s:
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This fella here is a Japanese spider crab (who, hand to God, is named Big Daddy), a species of crab that can grow to be 12 feet across:
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Al Capone’s Philadelphia prison cell was nicer than my apartment:
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This is a picture of some of Gandhi’s only earthly possessions when he died:
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Prescription cocaine is still used today in hospitals as a local anesthetic:
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This is what a, uh, whale’s you-know-what looks like:
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During World War II, Walt Disney developed a Mickey Mouse gas mask, designed to help children get comfortable and relaxed while wearing the mask:
Here’s a totally not frightening closeup:
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Garlic can be just one giant clove:
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This right here is the Warner Bros. Studio Cafe menu from February 1941. It’s a very “1941” menu:
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This is what a nuclear reactor looks like from above:
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This is how big a moose’s tooth is:
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In the 1950s, archeologists discovered the 13th-century doodles of a Russian boy named Onfim, some of the oldest drawings by a child ever discovered:
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Cement trucks and other giant trucks can have student drivers:
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Before production began on Bambi, live deer were brought into the studio to teach Disney artists how to properly draw them:
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Blue stop signs exist:
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This totally safe device was known as a baby cage, a wire cage suspended out of an apartment window meant to give babies born in cities extra light and air:
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And finally, a billion is really, really, really, really big:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/interesting-pictures-january-2023