My Dumb Little Brain Is Completely And Totally Blown After Seeing These 22 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The First Time Last Week
1.Gorilla hands are much, much bigger than human hands:
That being said, I'd love to have a secret gorilla handshake.
2.This is a pair of one of the earliest discovered pairs of socks, made in Egypt in the 5th century:
They were worn with sandals and, presumably, by our alien overlords.
3.This is how big the Eremotherium Laurillardi, also known as the giant ground sloth, was compared to a modern day human:
It lived in the modern day Americas and went extinct about 12,000 years ago. Would love to play some hoops with this bad boy.
4.Andrew Jackson was one of the first United States presidents to be photographed. Here he is in 1844:
Not a big Andy Jackson guy, but I am, however, a big old daguerreotype guy.
5.This is how big a nuclear cooling tower is compared to a person:
6.Before the invention of radar, this is one way people used to listen to and detect enemy planes:
I've been trying to tell you: Looney Tunes is REAL.
7.Termite hills can be absolutely gigantic:
No thanks!!!!!!!! I'm all set.
8.See those little specks there? Those are baby octopuses:
We love our eight-armed friends, don't we folks?
9.If you look at a car seat's heating system with a thermal camera, it looks like this:
It's got little car intestines! Ain't that sweet.
10.This pointy thing is what a nuclear bomb actually looks like:
Read more about it here.
11.Screws...screws can be really, really big:
They can apparently be used to mount solar panels. Also, presumably, for some really good dad jokes.
12.While we're talking about larger than normal things, check out this giant keyboard:
Never thought you'd see a keyboard that big, huh? Did ya?
13.Space and time is absolutely nuts:
14.Speaking of the moon, here's how big the African continent is compared to the Moon:
15.This is what a 420-pound dumbbell looks like:
It's DUMB big.
16.There is a very real chance that Pablo Picasso listened to the song "Sweet Caroline":
This changes everything.
17.A pickle under ultraviolet light looks like something from a fantasy novel:
What kind of powers does eating the ultra-pickle grant you, you think?
18.Lemons...lemons can be huge:
These are known as Capri lemons, and they taste a bit different than your run of the mill lemon.
19.This is how huge the entrance to the Roman Temple of Bacchus is:
It's located in Lebanon. See that little speck down there? That's a person. The Romans pulled out all the stops for the god of wine.
20.This is what a car cut in half looks like:
I just think it's neat!
21.This is a tarantula hawk, a wasp whose sting is known to be one of the most painful on planet Earth:
The sting has been likened to feeling as if "a running hair dryer has just been dropped into your bubble bath."
22.And, finally, this is what Shaq looks like holding a piece of paper:
Wow. The world is a beautiful place.
