I Just Spent The Past 15 Minutes With My Jaw On The Floor After Looking At All These Incredible Pictures And Now I Need You To See Them
1.This is what a bird getting an x-ray looks like:
Stay strong, little one.
2.This is what a $100 bill looked like in 1977, 2003, and 2017:
Folks, do we stan the 2003 $100 bill?
3.This is what the inside of a water tower looks like:
Would love to chop it up with the boys inside there.
4.This is what it looked like while Abraham Lincoln's face was under construction during the making of Mount Rushmore:
Check out the honker on Abe.
5.This is what Antarctica looks like from the window of a plane:
Neato.
6.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.
7.This is what the inside of a commercial airplane looked like in 1926:
Looks a bit tight.
8.Here's another cabin of an airplane from around the same time period:
Would love to read a newspaper with comically small font in one of these seats.
9.If you ever look at your airplane window and see this, it means a pilot is dumping fuel:
So stay calm. Just kidding. There's no way I'd stay calm if I saw this.
10.This is what a snowflake looks like under an electron microscope:
If I gave you one hundred guesses do you think you could have deduced that was a snowflake?
11.There's a highway built on top of apartment buildings in Guiyang City, China:
And you thought your neighbors were bad.
12.One panel of glass survived the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11. This is it:
Wow.
13.This is what the REST of a fire hydrant looks like:
Long fella.
14.Thomas Edison's last breath was captured and now resides in a museum:
My friends, what do you think it smells like?
15.One dollar in 1913 is worth $30.22 today:
16.And, while we're at it, one dollar in 2004 would be worth $1.67 today:
Think of all the Von Dutch hats you could buy if you went back in time:
17.This is what happens to a fly that falls in a cup of bleach:
It gains the power of invisibility. And death. It dies.
18.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.
19.This is the first digital picture ever created, a close-up of engineer Russell Kirsch's son Walden from 1957:
The picture that launched a billion GIFs.
20.This is what an ostrich without feathers looks like:
Spooky.
21.After World War I, a bunch of officers got together to pay tribute to the fallen horses lost in battle:
What part of the human horse head would you prefer? I'd like to be the nose.
22.This is what the inside of a grenade looks like:
Never thought about this.
23.Uranium glass glows under UV light:
In case you were wondering, uranium glass can consist of up to 2% uranium.
24.This is what a six foot block of cheese looks like:
Mine eyes have seen the glory.
25.After 12 years on Mars, the Curiosity rover has a big hole in one of its wheels:
Shout out to Curiosity, forever satiating our... curiosity.
26.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.
27.Cashews grow on trees like this:
Not sure what I expected.
28.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.
29.This is what the city of Bologna, Italy looks like from above:
They don't call it the "Red City" for nothing!
30.And this is what the Himalayas look like from International Space Station:
Not so tall now, are you!
31.In Germany, Mr. Clean is known as Mr. Proper:
While in Spain, he's known as Don Limpio:
I'd love to chop it up with the Don over a couple Miller Lites.
32.Tires can be very, very big:
This is apparently the size of tire mining trucks often use. That and Transformers.
33.This is what the FBI's fingerprint files looked like in 1942:
Got to think they cleaned this up a bit in the last 80 years.
34.Here's another angle of the football-field-sized archive:
Very chill.
35.There's a furniture store in North Carolina that has a piece of, well, furniture for an entrance:
It's majestic.
36.This is what a 21 layer Jello casserole looks like:
It, too, is majestic:
37.This is Charles Ponzi, the infamous scammer ponzi schemes got their name from:
I could definitely see myself giving this man all my savings.
38.This is what a real executioner's mask looked like:
Incredibly goofy but also very, very terrifying.
39.This is what a child's skull looks like before its baby teeth fall out and adult teeth come in:
Another totally comforting thought.
40.This is one of the last pictures ever taken of Queen Elizabeth II, taken only two days before her death in September 2022:
41.This is what the surface of Mars looking like last month:
Specifically on September 27th. It was taken by the Perseverance rover.
42.This is what a human skeleton looks like compared to a gorilla's skeleton:
Or maybe that's your mom's skeleton. Nah, nah I'm just kidding.
43.Some people paint their electrical boxes to blend into the wall:
It never occurred to me that this could be an option. God's plan.
44.These are hand-drawn sketches of the phases of the moon Galileo Galilei drew in 1610:
Neat!
45.This is what your bones look like under a microscope:
This is a comforting thought, right?
46.This is the size of a flag flown on a Spanish ship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1905:
Absolutely massive!
47.It's possible to get a 2x4 from the center of a tree:
Although, that's not what you want. It's the weakest and oldest part of a tree.
48.And, finally, in 2003, it was discovered that a full-grown, 400-pound Bengal tiger was being kept as a pet in a New York City apartment. Police were able to rescue the tiger, and he lived out the rest of his life in an Ohio animal sanctuary:
There was also a 5-foot alligator in the apartment. Not great, folks. Not great.
49.This is what an intact, peeled egg looks like:
50.And finally, this is a map of where you can find Venus flytraps in the wild:
I'm not sure where I expected them to be native to, but this was not it.
