19 Extremely Random Things I Just Found Out That Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Week
1.This week, the world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen, met the world's smallest woman, Jyoti Amge:
Sultan is 8'2" tall and Jyoti is 24 inches tall.
Here's another picture of their meeting:
Neat!
2.There are escalators that have tiny little plateaus halfway down:
Science has come so far.
3.Dandelions can be really, really big:
Imagine blowing that sucker. Hard for me to imagine something more thrilling.
4.And safety pins can be huge:
Would love to hang up a piece of laundry on a clothesline with one of these while a pie cools on the windowsill behind me.
5.Maple leaves? MAPLE LEAVES? Oh yeah, they can be very, very tiny:
Had to have a tiny thing in here for my Canadian brothers and sisters.
6.While we're talking about big things, here's a fisherman with a giant tuna he caught off the coast of Nova Scotia:
I hope one day you catch your own metaphorical giant tuna, my friend.
7.Somewhere out there are people with only one line on their hand:
I know you just looked at your hand to confirm there are two lines, admit it.
8.There's a bunch of trash left by humans on the moon. In fact, if you really want to know, there are 96 bags of human waste on that big pie in the sky:
Now THAT'S amore.
9.This is what a modern-day banana looks like next to a wild, predomesticated banana that used to be much more prevalent:
Although, imagine how fun it would be to eat that undomesticated banana and start spitting the seeds at your friends and families.
10.In the '70s, Casio made a calculator that also had a lighter in it...a CALCULIGHTER:
I cannot describe to you how much I need to calculate sin and cosine while lighting a newspaper on fire.
11.This is what it looks like if you excavate and cook all the cookie dough in your ice cream:
Honestly, looks really good. I love the slop.
12.In addition to the original (Nic Cage voice) Declaration of Independence, a bunch of copies were made and sent to other places. Here's what one of those copies looks like:
Imagine setting this on fire with the calculighter? I don't support it, but you have to admit it'd be cool.
13.The longest word in the English language is a doozy:
Would make a beautiful name for a dog.
14.Quadruple A batteries exist:
Another one of god's miracles.
15.This is what it looks like when molten steel hits the floor:
Every day the world becomes more and more like a cartoon.
16.Some fruit have stickers that tell you the perfect color to eat them:
Probably the most important invention of the last...70 years?
17.Turtles have a deep, dark secret:
I will never trust a turtle again.
18.Some places have stop lights that let you know how much time is left before they turn green:
This would lead to a Purge-like environment if it was all over the US.
19.And finally, this is what a pack of 110-year-old crayons looks like:
Tell me, friends — would you stick one of these up your nose?
