60 Extremely Rare Historical Pictures And Other Fascinating Images That Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Month
1.This is the world's tallest statue, the Statue of Unity:
It's located in India and is 600 feet high.
2.And here's how big the TOES of the statue are:
Somebody get me Mr. Tarantino.
3.This is what the New York City skyline looked like in 1931:
4.And here's what it looks like today:
There are at LEAST two new buildings there.
5.Chile is very, very, very, very, very, very long:
Shout out to all my Chileans and your long country.
6.A school bus looks like a tiny little baby next to a haul truck:
PUNY.
7.This is the earliest known picture of Abraham Lincoln, taken in 1946:
My man Abraham is looking bright-eyed AND bushy-tailed.
8.And this is what Abraham Lincoln looked like 19 years later, in 1865:
The man had a stressful life, folks.
9.This is how little of a train actually touches the tracks:
It's a smidge. A SMIDGE!
10.This is what a pair of George Washington's dentures looked like:
They contained cow, human, and horse teeth. Stunt on 'em, George.
11.This is what yet another "American section" in a European grocery store looks like:
It's so... beautiful.
12.This is how big the largest shark that ever lived, the Megalodon, was compared to a human:
I probably would win that fight, but I'm built different.
13.And here's how big the jaws of the Megalodon were compared to a human:
Again, I could take it.
14.This is what the United Kingdom looks like from space:
I think I see your mum.
15.This is what a wind turbine looks like after being hit by a tornado:
Wish I could show it some funny TikToks to cheer it up.
16.This is Pauline Musters, the shortest woman ever to live:
She was 24 inches tall when she died at the age of 19.
17.This is how big everyone's favorite telescope, the Hubble Telescope, is:
KRGEAC The Hubble Space Telescope at the Lockheed assembly plant 8913987
18.One of the biggest fads of the 1950s was "phonebooth stuffing," where-in a bunch of people would, well, stuff themselves into a phonebooth:
The world record at the time was 25 people stuffed into a phone booth. Truly an example of the triumph of the human spirit.
19.This is what the pyramids of Giza look like from a plane:
So tiny, yet so triangular.
20.This is Jacques Plante, who in 1959 became the first goalie to ever wear a protective face mask:
You can clearly see why.
21.During World War II, babies in England were fitted with baby-sized gas masks that were comically large:
Not baby-sized at all!
22.This is what the same food looks like deep fried vs. air fried:
Nature is incredible.
23.You're probably familiar with a blob fish, that lovable, kinda human-looking fish with the super-weird face...
24.Well, this is what a blob fish looks like in its natural environment, before it's been subjected to immense changes in pressure:
My man Blobby!
25.This is a picture taken during Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic. None of the men on the expedition would survive:
You can see the ship behind the two men pictured.
26.This is what a shark's brain looks like compared to a dolphin's brain:
Tough look for all my sharks out there.
27.This is what a great grey owl looks like compared to its skeleton:
Owls are the opposite of "big boned."
28.These were some of the job necessities for a TWA flight attendant in the 1940s:
You know Miss Dorothy Rotenhagen ran a TIGHT ship.
29.This is a 3D rendering of the surface of Venus:
That's Venus' largest volcano, Maat Mons, in the background.
30.This is what $100 in brand new five dollar bills looks like:
I wish to sniff it.
31.This is what the border between the US and Canada looks like in Eureka, Montana:
Very neat!
32.This is what a closeup of a line drawn with a red crayon on a piece of paper looks like under a microscope:
Cool!
33.This is what a candle flame looks like in zero gravity:
Looks like a wee little jellyfish.
34.This is one of the last pictures taken of President Harry S. Truman, shortly before his death in 1972:
I would've told you Truman died in 1959 if you asked me.
35.Selfies aren't a new invention. Here's a woman taking a selfie from the year 1900:
We see you, 1900s lady.
36.This is Samantha Ramsdell, the woman with the world's largest mouth gape:
It measures 2.56 inches in width.
37.Before it became that iconic sign all us sign-heads know and love, the Hollywood sign read "Hollywoodland":
Bring back the "LAND" 2024.
38.Lemons, my boy... lemons can be gigantic:
Big fellah.
39.This is how large the statue of David's, uh, rear-end is:
My goodness.
40.This is what Times Square looked like in 1921:
We need more razor blades keen to shave me.
41.This is what the inside of a gas stove looks like:
Fire!
42.Lots of US presidents have spoken multiple languages — here's a list of every purportedly multilingual president:
Shoutout to the Little Magician and his Dutch prowess.
43.Hotels used to have to put up signs explaining that electricity is safe and not to be feared:
"The use of electricity for lightning is in no way harmful to health, nor does it affect the soundness of sleep."
44.In 1933, A.L. Kahn caught a 5,000-pound manta ray off the coast of Florida:
And then he brought it to New Jersey, naturally.
45.This is what an anaconda looks like in the wild:
I'd only ever seen one in that documentary with J.Lo and Jon Voight. They can be upward of 30 feet long.
46.This is what a toucan's skeleton looks like:
Not sure what I was expecting.
47.This is how tiny a hummingbird's feather is compared to a penny:
Folks, do we stan hummingbirds? Let me know.
48.This is what a chimpanzee's hand looks like up close:
Would love to give a chimp a nice, firm handshake. Maybe dap him up.
49.Baby owls sleep facedown, on their stomachs:
This is because their heads are too heavy to hold up otherwise. Been there, brother.
50.NASA gave some spiders a bunch of different drugs and recorded how it changed the way they made webs:
Next time give the spider a cold, crisp Miller Lite and watch perfection.
51.This is how big a size 18 shoe is compared with a can of soda:
Size 18 feet are gigantic...who knew?
52.Speed limits can sometimes be wacky numbers:
I mean, what number is more wacky than 23? And don't you DARE say 37.
53.This is what Antarctica would look like if all its ice melted:
The rest of the world would also look a lot more wet.
54.These are some of several disguises that US Intelligence thought Adolph Hitler would use if he managed to go into hiding after World War II:
Proto-photoshop.
55.You're definitely familiar with King Tutankhamun's gold funerary mask, but did you know that the masks of other pharaohs have been found? This is the mask of the pharaoh Amenemope, circa 1000 BC:
Really, really cool but, and no offense to my man Amenemope, it kind of looks like the generic grocery store brand of Tut's.
56.NASA recently captured one of the clearest pictures of Jupiter yet:
Look at my boy Jupey!
57.When Mount Vesuvius erupted in Ancient Rome, the explosion carbonized several loaves of ancient Roman bread:
Would you eat the ancient bread? Yes? No? With a little oil? Jam?
58.This is what the skull of a typical dog looks like compared to a pug's skull:
Hmmm.
59.This is the last picture ever taken of President Ulysses S. Grant, snapped days before his death at his home:
Shoutout Ulysses.
60.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.
