19 Absolutely Jaw-Dropping Pictures That Left Me And My Teeny-Tiny Little Brain Speechless This Past Week
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1.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.
2.This is one of only two remaining pirate Jolly Roger flags in existence:
It was captured in 1790. According to the BBC, the flag's red color "signified the pirates intended to spare no life if a battle broke out during a ship's capture."
3.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!
4.This is the world's longest limo, the American Dream limo:
It was equipped with both a hot tub and a helicopter landing pad. Just the essentials.
5.This is one of two remaining Northern white rhinoceros left on Earth:
The two rhinos, both female, live in Kenya and are guarded 24/7.
6.There's a road in Japan that connects the Toyama and Nagano prefectures that are surrounded by giant snow walls that reach up to 65 feet high:
Like something out of Mario Kart!
7.This 17th-century painting by Giovanni Stanchi shows what the inside of a watermelon looked like in the 1600s, before selective breeding:
Look at that old fruit.
8.This is what the inside of Big Ben looks like behind one of its clock faces:
It sure is big.
9.When Hurricane Floyd hit Florida in 1999, flamingos from the Miami-Metro zoo took refuge in a bathroom to protect themselves from the storm:
Well, zoo-keepers put them there to protect them from the storm.
10.This is what a .22 caliber bullet looks like next to a .50 caliber bullet:
Can you spot the difference?
11.You're probably familiar with the gold funerary mask of King Tut — but did you know that another pharaoh's gold death mask was found a few years later? This is the mask of the pharaoh Psusennes I:
His completely intact tomb was found in 1940. However, because of its swampy location in Egypt's Nile delta, a lot of what was stored in the tomb was destroyed over the years.
12.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."
13.Here's what Louise looks like today:
Shout out Louise!
14.There's a city in Russia located next to an absolutely gigantic diamond mine:
The mine is apparently "the world's second-largest excavated hole."
15.This is what the inside of a 1970s spacesuit looked like:
Specially the Russian Orlan suit. Looks comfortable and not horrifying at all!
16.This is what the world's largest gold nugget, named the Welcome Stranger nugget, looked like. It was found in Australia in 1869:
This is actually a model of the nugget. It weighed almost 160 pounds and was sold pretty much immediately for £9,534, which is about £970,000 today.
17.Square fire extinguishers exist:
They're...they're beautiful.
18.The head of an ant is absolutely terrifying up close:
No thanks!
19.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.
