I Have A Brain The Size Of A Literal Peanut, So My Mind Was Totally Blown After Seeing These 35 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time Last Month
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1.This is Daniel Lambert, a British man who was known as the world's heaviest person in the 18th century:
He weighed over 700 pounds. Legend has it he once fought off a bear single-handedly. I'm serious.
2.This is the first ever ticket sold for Disneyland:
It's from 1955, when the park opened. $1 for a trip to Walt's domicile! How about that.
3.This is a loaf of sourdough bread that was miraculously preserved after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE:
It was inside an oven at the time of the eruption. Folks, are you eating the volcano bread?
4.Once upon a time, beer vending machines were a thing:
Whiskey vending machines, too:
Not to mention gin and tonic vending machines:
And, saints preserve us, potato vending machines:
We have to go back.
5.This is a picture of Pluto and its moons taken in 2006...
And this is a much, much clearer picture of Pluto taken only a decade later, in 2015:
By NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from 476,000 miles out.
6.Speaking of which, this is one of the first photographs ever taken of the Earth from space...
And this is a picture of Earth that was taken 20 minutes before this article was published:
7.Over 2,000 years ago, a child living in ancient Rome made this footprint in a clay tile while it was drying:
And I'm STILL mad at the kid.
8.This is what a fish getting a CT scan looks like:
Specifically a French angelfish who had some buoyancy issues. The fish is all better now!
9.This is what Bruce Lee's workout routine was in 1965:
Shoutout Bruce Lee.
10.This is Apo Whang-Od, a 106-year-old woman who is quite possibly the oldest tattoo artist on the planet:
Apo Whang-Od specializes in batok, an ancient form of tattoo artistry from the Philippines. Read more about her here.
11.This is a hammer-headed bat, an absolutely enormous fruit bat with an average wingspan of over three feet:
Look, buddy, I love you...but you gotta stay away from me.
12.Speaking of gigantic animals, check out the size of this here lobster claw:
Say it with me, folks: That's a big claw.
13.And dandelions, my friend...dandelions can be huge:
14.Squids have hard, sharp beaks:
To kill prey, of course.
And this is what a giant squid's beak looks like:
Not terrifying at all.
15.This is what one part of the border between Belgium and the Netherlands looks like:
Would love to hop back and forth all day long:
16.This is how big an average-sized comet is compared to Paris:
Specifically the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. Very chill, though.
17.This is the executioner robe and axe of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, the official executioner of the Papal States in the 1800s:
He executed over 500 people.
18.One of the largest, if not the largest, commercially available bed is the Alaska king, an absolute BEHEMOTH:
This is what it looks like in person:
I wish to lay in it.
19.According to astronomers, this is the average color of the universe:
The color is called "cosmic latte." To figure this out, astronomers averaged the colors of over 200,000 galaxies together. Folks, would you drink the cosmic latte?
20.This is Stephan Bibrowski, otherwise known as Lionel the Lion-faced Man. Stephan had a condition known as hypertrichosis that caused hair to grow up to eight inches long all over his body including, obviously, his face:
He performed for years with Barnum & Bailey and spoke five languages.
21.The Nebraska women's volleyball team just set a world record for the most attended women's sporting event of all time, a match against Omaha that was attended by over 92,000 people:
And yeah, they won.
22.This is what a cross-section of a Boeing 747 looks like:
Not much between you and the great wide-open sky.
23.Because they don't allow artificial coloring, American Froot Loops and European Froot Loops are totally different:
Folks, Froot Loops are still coated no matter what the color is.
24.Speaking of which, this is what Fanta orange looks like in Europe:
Again, no dyes.
25.This is what a cow molar looks like compared to a human molar:
Cow dentists must make a killing.
26.This is the top hat Abraham Lincoln was wearing the night he was assassinated:
RIP Abe.
27.This is what the cockpit of the now retired supersonic passenger airliner the Concorde looked like:
The Concorde could fly from New York to London in under three hours.
28.This is the 1955 Mercedes 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe, the most expensive car ever sold:
It sold at an auction last year for $143 million, the proceeds of which went to charity.
29.There's a place called Ooh Aah Point at the Grand Canyon:
I just think that's neat.
30.This is what a banana looks like after a year of being left out:
Juuuuust how I like 'em.
31.Watermelons...watermelons can be very, very tiny:
Look at that little fellah.
32.This is what the start of a river looks like:
Otherwise known as a spring. This is the start of the Metolius River in Oregon.
33.This is what a python's skeleton looks like:
Chill, chill, chill.
34.This is a display of ancient Egyptian furniture, from sometime around 1,500 BCE:
Who knew that humanity perfected furniture so long ago?
35.And, finally, America is very, very young:
Sheesh!
