I Just Spent The Past 15 Minutes With My Jaw On The Floor After Looking At All These Fascinating Pictures And Now I Need You To See Them
1.This is what a neanderthal looks like with contemporary clothing and hair:
Would love to crack open an ice cold Diet Pepsi with this man here.
2.This is Chandra Bahadur, the shortest man in recorded history:
He stood just 21.5 inches tall.
3.And here is Chandra Bahadur next to the world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen:
Sultan stands 8 feet 3 inches.
4.This is what a 5-year-old Albert Einstein looked like:
I can see his... Einstein-y-ness.
5.This is what a nuclear warhead looks like:
Like a traffic cone... an evil traffic cone.
6.Al Capone's Philadelphia prison cell was nicer than my apartment:
And free, too.
7.This is what Antarctica looks like from the window of a plane:
Neato.
8.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"?
9.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?
10.This is how much some of McDonald's most popular menu items cost in 1992:
We have to go back.
11.These are some of the floats from the 1939 edition of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade:
Bring back Big-Nose-Guy.
12.Some scallops have a ton of tiny little blue eyes:
I had to learn it, and now you have to too.
13.This unassuming white dot is the iceberg that sunk the Titanic:
Much less menacing far away.
14.Couches, my friend...couches can be really, really big:
Anyone want to go in on the Long Oxblood Chesterfield Style Leather Sofa?
15.This is what a nuclear reactor looks like from above:
I wish to touch it.
16.This is what the neighborhood around Tokyo Tower in Japan looked like in 1960...
17.And here's what the same neighborhood looks like today:
I count at least three new buildings.
18.This is what happens to a gummy bear if you soak it in water overnight:
Gummy bear got yoked.
19.This right here is a giant earthworm that was found in Queensland, Australia:
Totally not terrifying at all.
20.This is a picture of a meeting of the New York chapter of the "Fat Men's Club" circa 1930:
According to the photo's caption, pictured here are "A Rockwitz (312lbs), comedian Eddie Carvey (250lbs), David Burns (475lbs) and F C Kupper (351lbs)." Members had to be at least 200 pounds to join. Love my big boys.
21.In 2013, the Pope visited Copacabana Beach in Brazil and, well, a whole lot of people came to see him:
Imagine having to pee in the middle of that crowd. Nightmare scenario.
22.This is the first picture of a tornado ever taken:
It was taken in 1884, long before Helen Hunt was ever born.
23.Tangentially related: here is the oldest picture of the White House ever taken:
It was taken in 1846. Right around the time when the sewage was probably killing everyone inside.
24.When Hurricane Floyd hit Florida in 1999, flamingos from the Miami-Metro zoo took refuge in a bathroom to protect themselves from the storm:
Well, zookeepers put them there to protect them from the storm.
25.Curved doors are a thing that exist:
The amount of times I would trip walking through that door... it would be biblical.
26.Before 2003, Boston had an elevated highway run through the city. It was eventually moved underground and replaced by...
27.This:
Ahhhh. That's much better. Exhale.
28.During World War II, the statue of "David" by Michelangelo was completely encased in bricks to prevent damage from bombs:
And no, it does not look like something else. Stop that.
29.Telephone lineworkers go to telephone lineworker school where they learn how to be telephone lineworkers:
Say "telephone lineworker" five times fast.
30.Hex wrenches can be WILDLY different sizes:
I dream of wielding the big wrench.
31.This is the foldout bed George Washington slept on during the Revolutionary War:
You'll notice it folds into a trunk. Only the finest for old George.
32.This is a cassowary, often called the "world's most dangerous bird"...
33.And this is what a cassowary's eggs look like. They're green!
Like a giant sour Skittle. Nature's sour Skittle.
34.Blue stop signs exist:
They're found on private property, generally.
35.This, in all its glory, is what the inside of the Wienermobile looks like:
Wow. What a sight. God's plan.
36.The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:
Shout out to "dewberry."
37.This is what the underside of a stingray looks like:
Didn't think you'd hear the phrase "underside of a stingray" today, did ya?
38.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:
These are from the 1200s! They were made on bark and found next to his homework.
39.Cement trucks and other giant trucks can have student drivers:
Words can't describe how patient I would be.
40.And finally, a billion is really, really, really, really big:
