I Just Spent The Past 15 Minutes Completely Glued To My Screen After Looking At All These Fascinating Pictures And Now I Need You To See Them
1.This picture, taken in 1925, is the last known photo of a Barbary lion in the wild:
Once prevalent across Northern Africa, the lion went extinct because of, you guessed it, humans.
2.Speaking of which, this is a picture of one of the last Tasmanian tigers, an animal that went extinct in 1936:
It lived, obviously, in Tasmania. Recently, there's been some talk of scientists trying to resurrect the tiger.
3.This is Maurice Tillet, a wrestler who some say the beloved character Shrek was based on:
Tillet, known as the French Angel, apparently went undefeated for 18 months in the early 1940s.
4.This is beautician Max Factor with his invention, the beauty calibrator, a device designed to show which parts of a woman's face needed more or less make-up:
5.Here's another look at this totally not terrifying device:
Looks like something out of one of the Saw movies.
6.This vehicle was the car being driven when the first ever speeding ticket was given to Walter Arnold in 1896:
He was allegedly going a whopping 8 miles-per-hour in a 4 miles-per-hour zone.
7.2025 marks the official beginning of "Gen Beta." Here's a list of every named generation going back to the 1400s:
And I bet they all hated the one that came after them, as humans always do.
8.This photo, taken by Louis Botan in 1899, is one of the first photos ever taken underwater:
The very first picture taken underwater was done some years earlier, but that was done by attaching a camera to a pole and lowering it into the water. This is the first taken by a diver also submerged.
9.One semester at Harvard cost in $170.42 in 1869:
That's about $3,900 today.
10.Speaking of the cost of things in the past, a ticket to see The Beatles in 1964 would run you about $4.90:
A little over a dollar a Beatle. Great deal.
11.For centuries the Great Sphinx of Giza was almost completely covered in sand:
This is what it looked like after some initial excavations in the 1800s.
12.It wasn't until the 1900s that the Sphinx was completely uncovered:
Shout out to Thutmose IV, the original Sphinx de-sander.
13.This is Daniel Waldo, one of the last surviving veterans of the American Revolutionary War, pictured here in 1864:
Ah, so there's Waldo.
14.A giant barrel of olive oil costs about $1190 at Costco:
15.The ET puppet is still around and in rough, rough shape:
Nightmare fuel.
16.Stoplights, but for U-turns, exist:
I'm in awe.
17.This is Frank "Cannonball" Richards performing his signature feat: being struck in the stomach by a 140 pound cannonball:
He would do this twice a day, usually. Me, personally? I like to brush my teeth twice a day.
18.This is a picture of German Shepherd police dogs facing the ultimate challenge: remaining perfectly still while a cat sits right in front of them:
(Ennio Morricone plays in the distance).
19.This is Anna M. Jarvis, the inventor of Mother's Day:
She would later regret creating the holiday, citing rapant "commercialization" that was ruining the once special day.
20.This is what a horse ambulance looks like:
No bad vibes about horse ambulances and medical care in the comments, please. We keep it strictly positive when it comes to our equine friends here.
21.This is what the throne of King Charlemagne looked like:
Over the course of almost 600 years, more than 30 leaders of the Holy Roman Empire were officially coronated on this throne.
22.This is what one of New York City's first subways looked like while it was being built:
Watch your step!
23.Violins made specifically for children are very, very tiny:
Look at that little old violin.
24.This set of 52 playing cards, dating back to the 1400s, is the oldest surviving example of a full deck of cards:
Honestly gorgeous!
25.And finally, this picture isn't blurry. That's just a bunch of muffin tins stacked on each other:
Thank your stupid brain for that.
