I Just Spent The Past 15 Minutes With My Jaw On The Floor After Seeing All These Fascinating Pictures And Now I Need You To See Them
1.Most counterfeit money will glow under a UV light:
Some legit money will too, depending on where it's been.
2.And speaking of counterfeit money, this is what happens if you try to print out an image of a $20 bill on the internet:
Got ya!
3.This is how big Earth is compared to Jupiter's Great Red Spot:
I would hesitate to call that giant thing a "spot." It's disrespectful to Big Jupey.
4.This is what the skeleton of a spider monkey looks like:
AHHHHHHHHHH!
5.This is what the Panama canal looked like while under construction:
Looks like something out of a Star War.
6.This is what the largest species of deer to ever roam the Earth, the Irish Elk, looked like compared to some humans:
That's a big ol' elk.
7.This is what a typical children's playground looked like in 1908:
This is from New York City's Tompkins Square Park. Ladders and poles, folks, get yer ladders and poles.
8.Some of the Titanic's deck chairs were salvaged from the wreck. Here's what one of them looks like:
Honestly, shoutout to chair-makers in 1912. Looks great.
9.This is how large the biggest seed on the planet, the double coconut seed, is:
Please do not comment on the shape of the seed. I beg of you.
10.This is Ella Grigsby, aka Mme Abomah, the alleged tallest woman in the world during the late 19th century:
She stood 6'10" tall and was a circus staple.
11.This is what your lips look like under an electron microscope:
Want to ruin your friend's day? Send them that awful, awful picture of lips.
12.This is what the inside of the Statue of Liberty looks like:
Looks frigid!
13.This is how big the shell largest species of freshwater turtle to ever live, the Stupendemys, was:
That's a big ol' shell.
14.This is President Lyndon B. Johnson driving a Amphicar, a, well, amphibious car designed to operate on land and sea:
Imagine the spiders inside that thing.
15.Some hairdressers have special shoe covers to stop hair from getting all up in their business:
I need these for when it's raining.
16.This is what a volcano erupting looks like from space:
Neat!
17.Before he retired from baseball, the legendary Lou Gerhig auditioned for the role of Tarzan. They made him carry and a spear and everything:
Apparently, he didn't get the job because of his "massive legs."
18.Penguins eggs are translucent after being boiled:
Also, please don't boil penguin eggs.
19.This is what a polio vaccine card looked like in the early '60s:
Thank you grandma.
20.The Rosetta Stone, one of the most important archeological discoveries of all time, contains hieroglyphs, demotic Egyptian script, Ancient Greek, and... this on the side:
Come on, British Army. Did you really need to do that?
21.Some remotes have buttons for numbers beyond your wildest imagination:
Has science gone too far?
22.This is what a modern lego piece looks like to one from 1949:
They still stick together. Ain't that nice?
23.And, finally, this is what 15 pounds of shredded and unshredded cheese looks like:
Wow. Nature is incredible.
