My Dumb Little Brain Just Got Completely Blown After I Saw These 60 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The First Time Last Month
1.This is what Antarctica looks like from the window of a plane:
Neato.
2.Hummingbird eggs are very, very small:
And we must protect these tiny little eggs at all costs.
3.This is what a minimum security prison in Norway looks like:
Looks comfier than my apartment.
4.Baby owls sleep facedown, on their stomachs:
This is because their heads are too heavy to hold up otherwise. Been there, brother.
5.This is roughly how many passenger trains there are in the USA compared with Europe:
Spot the difference!
6.This is how big a size 18 shoe is compared with a can of soda:
Size 18 feet are gigantic...who knew?
7.This is what a sunset looks like from space:
Hmmm. Is this more or less impressive than the sunset your mom has as the background on her iPhone lock screen? Weigh in on this in the comments, please.
8.The original plan for Mount Rushmore included the bodies of the four presidents:
Money ran out before the rest of the presidents' rocky bodies could be carved.
9.This is how large the biggest seed on the planet, the double coconut seed, is compared with a person:
That, my friends, is a big ol' seed.
10.This is what a $100 bill looked like in 1977, 2003, and 2017:
Folks, do we stan the 2003 $100 bill?
11.The names for a bookworm in different languages are incredible:
12.This is how big an average-size human is compared with a bunch of different bears and, just for fun, the tallest man who ever lived, Robert Wadlow:
Not quite tall enough, Bob.
13.This is what the "American section" of a Polish grocery store looks like:
Oreos...Nerds...hot sauce...Reese's...I'll allow it.
14.This is what Mount Everest looks like from the window of a plane:
Grim thought: This is also a picture of the hundreds of people who never made it down Everest.
15.Hedges can be absolutely massive:
I wish to stroke that hedge.
16.And bolts, my boy? Bolts can be absolutely gigantic:
Imagine how cool it would be to screw one of these bad boys in.
17.This is how big a battleship, specifically the USS Iowa, is compared with a normal-size boat:
Battleships: They're big.
18.Speaking of which, submarines are also really, really big:
This is the Russian submarine Dmitry Donskoy, and those tiny things on it are people.
19.One panel of glass survived the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11. This is it:
Wow.
20.This is the last meal Richard Nixon ate in the White House before he resigned as president — pineapple, cottage cheese, and a glass of milk:
Honestly, he should've resigned just for eating this wild meal.
21.This exhibit shows what happens to marble over time if people are allowed to stick their grubby little paws all over it:
The untouched marble is on the left, and the touched marble on the right.
22.This is what the REST of a fire hydrant looks like:
Long fella.
23.This is how big Antarctica is compared with the United States:
Bigger or smaller than you expected? Sound off in the comments or open a window and yell your thoughts out into the street.
24.This is the death mask of Sir Isaac Newton:
It was created after he died. He looks uncomfortable.
25.Thomas Edison's last breath was captured and now resides in a museum:
My friends, what do you think it smells like?
26.This is what the Oval Office looks like completely empty:
This was in 2001 while it was being renovated.
27.This is what North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal, home to one of the world's last uncontacted peoples, looks like from above:
That means the people who live there have little to no contact with the rest of the world. If you want to read more about the Sentinelese, read all about 'em here.
28.This is what a tumbleweed looks like before, well, it tumbles:
Well, then.
29.This is Travis Gienger standing over his award-winning 2,749-pound pumpkin, which won the 50th annual World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off:
Folks, do we stan Travis's giant pumpkin?
30.This is what the fossilized skin imprint of a dinosaur looks like:
This imprint in particular is from a duck-billed dinosaur and is over 70 million years old. Looks like a basketball.
31.Remember Nickelodeon Studios? Slime Time Live and all that jazz?
Well, this is what it looks like today:
You're old.
32.This is the check for $7.2 million, issued Aug. 1, 1868, that the US sent to Russia for the purchase of Alaska:
Would love to personally receive $7 million from the US government one day.
33.This picture, taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, shows what a dying star looks like:
Specifically the Ring Nebula. The star looks this way because it's "throwing off its outer layers as it runs out of fuel."
34.This is what the painting directly across from the "Mona Lisa" looks like:
It's "The Wedding at Cana" by Paolo Veronese. Which do you prefer?
35.This is a tiny, pill-size camera that you swallow so that doctors can get a...well, a very intimate look at your digestive system:
We are living in the future.
36.This is what a cabinet full of uranium glass looks like under UV light:
In case you were wondering, uranium glass can consist of up to 2% uranium.
37.This is what the "hand" of a manatee looks like:
Look at those little nails.
38.This is the first picture ever taken of an image broadcast on television:
It's from 1926. Can we get a petition for Netflix to pick up "Man's Blurry Head"?
39.These are the "Stairs of Death," an extremely steep staircase located in Peru's Huayna Picchu:
To be honest with you, I just think "Stairs of Death" is cool as hell.
40.This picture, from the 1980 Moscow Olympics, shows a number of performers making a human torch:
Ain't that just the neatest.
41.There's an underwater ancient Roman city that you can dive to and explore:
It's the partial remains of Baiae, an ancient Roman resort town located outside of Naples, Italy.
42.Stoplights, but for U-turns, exist:
I'm in awe.
43.This is the Brewster armor suit, one of the first fully functional suits of body armor designed for World War I combat:
All I'll say is, you better not let Gru see you wearing that.
44.You can move an entire house with a truck:
Talk about a mobile home...sheesh!
45.This is Lonnie Johnson, inventor of the Super Soaker, enjoying his invention:
Bless this man.
46.During the Battle of Britain during World War II, cows were painted with bright white paint to stop cars from hitting them during the nightly blackouts:
Thank you for your service, cow.
47.Couches, my friend...couches can be really, really big:
Anyone want to go in on the Long Oxblood Chesterfield Style Leather Sofa?
48.This picture, from 1930, shows a plane flying over the old city of Baghdad:
Again, I just think it's neat.
49.There are a whole bunch of trees on Earth that were planted with seeds that flew to the moon on Apollo 14:
They were brought to the moon by astronaut Stuart Roosa.
50.This is how England's A303 road evolved over time:
Brings back the giant squids, I say.
51.This is what a lion's fang looks like compared with a cat's fang:
Can you tell which is which?
52.This map, from 1507, is the first map to ever label America as "America":
As you probably know, it was named in honor of Amerigo Vespucci and was "the first map to depict clearly a separate Western Hemisphere, with the Pacific as a separate ocean."
53.The different ways to say something like "It's the bee's knees" in various languages are incredible:
I gotta give it up to the French here.
54.This is what the inside of a grenade looks like:
Never thought about this.
55.This is the difference between modern-day corn and its pre-domesticated form:
56.In sad news, the world's oldest dog, 31-year-old Bobi, died last month:
RIP to Bobi the king.
57.This is what an authentic, mint condition Woodstock 1969 ticket looks like:
Gem Mint 10, folks. Would you rather have this or a 2011 Mike Trout Topps Update card?
58.This is Franz Reichelt sporting a homemade parachute suit that he was confident would save him if he jumped off the Eiffel Tower:
On Feb. 4, 1912, he gave it a go. It did not deploy.
59.This is apparently an eighth-grade test from 1912. Are you passing it?
Feel free to describe the heart in the comments.
60.Some scallops have a ton of tiny little blue eyes:
I had to learn it, and now you have to too.
And, finally, this is what a 1-ton block of cheese looks like:
Wow. Incredible.
