My Dumb Little Brain Is Totally And Completely Blown After Seeing These 50 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The First Time Last Month
1.Before he died, Abraham Lincoln had a "life mask" made of his face. This is what it looked like:
Abe, my boy, I know I'm not supposed to say this but you look a bit tired.
2.This is what a fingerprint from a person born without fingerprints looks like:
Would love to commit a crime with this fellah.
3.Recognize these big ol' rocks? This is Mount Rushmore before the presidential heads were carved into it:
Wow. presidential rocks.
4.This is what the "American Selection" in an Irish grocery store looks like:
Jerkey, Pop-Tarts, Reeses, and an intriguing amount of Mike & Ike representation.
5.This is what it looks like when a whole bunch of horses fly on a plane:
Wow. Now it's safe to say I HAVE seen everything.
6.Alaska is big. REALLY big:
On another note, imagine if there were 12 Iowas. Something to think about.
7.And Australia... Australia is also very, very big:
You can fit a whole lot of snakes in that there country.
8.This is what a polar bear's paw print looks like compared with a human handprint:
Not terrifying at all.
9.This is how an offshore oil platform is transported to the location where it will be installed:
Add this to the list of things I had never thought about in my life.
10.Before it found its home in New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty's head was on display at the 1878 Paris World's Fair:
Look at that big ol' honkin' head.
11.And here's what Lady Lib looked like while it was being packed up to be shipped to the US:
How much do you think shipping cost on that?
12.This is what a living sand dollar looks like compared with a dead one:
RIP to a real one.
13.This is what a peeled lemon looks like:
Now I have officially seen everything.
14.The doors on the presidential limousine are ridiculously thick:
This particular limo is known as "the Beast," for obvious reasons.
15.Way out on the edge of the galaxy is this big ol' hunk of rock called Ultima Thule or 486958 Arrokoth, the farthest thing from Earth humanity has ever "explored up close":
Reminds me of two peanuts I ate earlier today. Those were some good peanuts.
16.This is what the Roman empire at its greatest extent looks like compared to North America:
I've always called Italy the Kansas of Europe.
17.Baby LEGOs exist. BABY LEGOS EXIST!
Look at my son.
18.Traffic lights are absolutely huge:
How many times do I need to remind you of the immensity of the traffic light?
19.This right here is Vincent van Gogh's painting palette:
Neat! That van Gogh guy had some talent!
20.This is what a map of the United States looked like in 1783:
Hey, Massachusetts: RELAX.
21.This is what the skull of the largest ape to ever roam the Earth, the gigantopithecus, looks like compared to our tiny little human head:
The ape was, well, giant. Like "as tall as a basketball hoop," according to the New York Times. Chill!
22.This is what a $1,000 bill looks like:
It was first put into circulation in 1928. That's Grover Cleveland's big ol' mug on the front.
23.Cough medicine used to have a very special ingredient in 1919:
Well, that's one way to sleep.
24.This is what the inside of a Coca-Cola Freestyle machine looks like:
This is what the pinnacle of human innovation looks like.
25.There are pants that shine INCREDIBLY bright when hit with light:
They've been called "anti-paparazzi pants."
26.American Froot Loops and Froot Loops from other countries are totally different colors:
This is due to regulations in Canada concerning food additives and coloring.
27.The inside of a pine cone makes me somewhat uncomfortable:
I'm all set!
28.While we're at it, this is what the inside of a wasp's nest looks like:
The stuff of nightmares.
29.There's a street named "Bucket Of Blood Street" in Arizona:
The street was the location of a deadly gunfight in the late 1800s. I can only imagine Mr. Stagger Lee was involved.
30.This is what the Eiffel Tower looked like while it was being built:
Not sure what I was expecting, but still neat.
31.This is a proposed warning to be placed at nuclear dumping ground to warn future generations of the danger of its contents:
Me, personally? I'd turn my little rear-end around after reading that.
32.This man, Paul Karason, had his skin turn permanently blue after spending years ingesting colloidal silver:
He claimed that it cured many of his health problems, including arthritis and acid reflux.
33.This is the Speyer wine bottle, the oldest known bottle of wine on Earth:
It's almost 1,700 years old and likely still drinkable!
34.This is the personal water closet of the last German emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II:
What a beautiful toilet. Absolutely stunning.
35.Stink bug eggs are little tiny smiley faces:
Ain't that sweet?
36.This is the aftermath of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919, a deadly event that claimed the lives of 21 people in Boston after a container holding over two million gallons of molasses burst, sending a wave of molasses several feet high through the city streets:
It sounds like it's funny, but I assure you: it is not.
37.Coconuts, my friend...coconuts can be very, very tiny:
Folks, do we stan the tiny lil' coconut?
38.Bottles of soda look adorable before they get blown up with compressed air:
Ain't that sweet.
39.Marisa Tomei's name can do amazing things:
Incredible.
40.South Korea and Ireland are almost the same size, although South Korea has 10 times Ireland's population:
Just thought it was interesting!
41.This is how big a wisdom tooth is compared with a baby tooth:
Teeth: They can get big.
42.This is what the leg of the largest dinosaur to ever exist, the argentinosaurus, looks like compared with a human:
The argentinosaurus measured about 130 feet across. That's a big 'saur!
43.A medium-sized shirt in North America is an extra large in Japan:
Buyer beware.
44.This is the pistol Gavrilo Princip used to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand and set off World War I:
This pistol led to the deaths of over 16 million people.
And this is the car Franz Ferdinand was driving in:
Bad vibes, man.
45.This is what an early design for an electric hair dryer looked like:
Totally practical and not at all ridiculous looking.
46.This is what an Italian public school lunch looks like:
When I was in school in the US, we used to grab a Go-Gurt and a bag of Funyuns and we LIKED it.
47.This is what Robert Wadlow, the tallest man who ever lived, looked like when he was 10 years old:
This is him standing tall at 6 feet 6 inches next to his father.
And here's Wadlow at his tallest, coming in at 8 feet 11 inches:
Bobby, in case you haven't realized, was very tall.
48.This is a list of every cause of death that occurred during a week in London in 1665:
"Griping in the guts"...been there, brother.
49.This is what a coca plant looks like:
You know, a "cocaine plant." Moving on.
50.And finally, apparently back in the day, peanut sellers would, well, wear suits with a ton of peanuts sewn into them:
We need to bring this back. I need to bring this back.
