My Jaw Is Actually Still Completely On The Floor After Seeing All These Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week
1.This tiny little creature the size of a penny is one of the deadliest creatures on Earth:
2.This is what velcro looks like under an electron microscope:
Would ya look at that.
3.This is what the inside of a 1970s spacesuit looked like:
Specially the Russian Orlan suit. Looks comfortable and not horrifying at all!
4.This is a pepperbox pistol, a type of firearm that could have as many as 24 barrels:
Looney Toons lookin' pistol.
5.Speaking of strange guns, Saddam Hussein was the owner of a gold-plated AK-47:
Looks like something out of one of them Call Of Duties.
6.This is what a typical day of air travel over Europe looks like:
Europe: there are a lot of planes.
7.This is what a "9 out of 10 difficulty level" puzzle looks like:
My head hurts just thinking about it.
8.This is what a Hoover Dam spillway tunnel looks like. Check out the tiny, tiny walkway on top:
The spillways are there to make sure water doesn't go over the dam. The tunnel is 50 feet wide and 600 feet long and totally not the stuff of nightmares.
9.This is what a movie theater undergoing some heavy-duty seat cleaning looks like:
Think of all the treasures that the bottom of those seats hold. Magnificent.
10.A group of Japanese samurai visited the Great Sphinx of Giza in 1864:
They were part of a Japanese embassy to Europe. I know what you're all thinking: If only they could have been there 2,500 years earlier and helped the Pharaoh Psamtik III stop the Persian invasion of the Two Lands. SMH!
11.This is what a suit of elephant armor looked like:
This particular set dates back to 16th-century India. If I was a soldier and saw this coming at me, I think I'd just turn around and pack it in.
12.This is Marie Curie riding in her mobile X-ray van, designed to treat wounded soldiers on the go during World War I:
Imagine rolling up to the function in the x-ray van.
13.This is Dr. Rufus Weaver and "Harriet," the completely dissected nervous system of a woman:
I already know that room is haunted.
14.This is what Brian Shaw, four-time winner of the World's Strongest Man competition, looks like next to a couple of 200-pound bodybuilders:
Pipsqueaks!
15.Fans... fans can be very, very big:
I'm a..................................................................................................... fan.
16.This is how many hearing aid batteries a nursing home goes through in a month:
Forbidden Skittles.
17.Here are some of the rejected designs for the Eiffel Tower:
I think they chose right. Sound off in the comments if you agree.
18.Infrared cameras can spot different layers of paint:
I would never be able to rest if I knew this.
19.The Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden is home to an almost completely preserved 17th-century warship:
The ship sank in 1628 and was salvaged from Stockholm Harbor in 1961. Look how big it is!
20.This is what the skeleton of a pufferfish looks like:
RIP, brother.
21.This is Louise Joy Brown, the first baby ever born after IVF, or in vitro fertilisation:
Born in 1978, she was known at the time as the world's first "test-tube baby."
Here's what Louise looks like today:
Shout out Louise!
22.Square fire extinguishers exist:
They're...they're beautiful.
23.And, finally, if you win a car on The Price Is Right you get a special little license plate cover:
I never knew how much I needed something I didn't have until I saw this.
