My Dumb Little Brain Is Completely Blown After Seeing These 22 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The First Time Last Week
1.This is what North Sentinel Island, home to one of the world's last uncontacted peoples, looks like from above:
That means the people who live there have little to no contact with the rest of the world. If you want to read more about the Sentinelese, read all about 'em here.
2.This is the last meal Richard Nixon ate in the White House before he resigned. Pineapple, cottage cheese, and a glass of milk:
Honestly, he should've resigned just for eating this wild meal.
3.The original plan for Mount Rushmore included the bodies of the four presidents:
Money ran out before the rest of the president's rocky bodies could be carved.
4.This exhibit shows what happens to marble over time if people are allowed to stick their grubby little paws all over it:
The untouched marble being on the left and the touched marble on the right.
5.This is what the "American section" to a Polish grocery store looks like:
Oreos...Nerds...hot sauce...Reese's...I'll allow it.
6.This is the first picture ever taken of an image broadcast on television:
It's from 1926. Can we get a petition for Netflix to pick up "Man's Blurry Head"?
7.This picture, from the 1980 Moscow Olympics, shows a number of performers making a human torch:
Ain't that just the neatest.
8.This picture, from 1930, shows a plane flying over the old city of Baghdad, Iraq:
Again, I just think it's neat.
9.This is Lonnie Johnson, inventor of the Super Soaker, enjoying his invention:
Bless this man.
10.This map, from 1507, is the first map to ever label America as "America":
As you probably now, it was named in honor of Amerigo Vespucci and was "the first map to depict clearly a separate Western Hemisphere, with the Pacific as a separate ocean."
11.Speaking of maps of the Americas, here's a German one from 1550 that shows South America as the "New World":
Where we dropping, gang?
12.This is the check for $7,200,000 that the USA sent to Russia to purchase Alaska in 1867:
Would love to personally receive seven million from the US government one day.
13.Stoplights but for u-turns exist:
I'm in awe.
14.This is what the REST of a fire hydrant looks like:
Long fellah.
15.This the Brewster armor suit, one of the first fully functional suits of body armor designed for World War I combat:
All I'll say is you better not let Gru see you wearing that.
16.Before the pin-setting machine was invented, bowling alleys would have teens and children set up bowling pins after each frame:
Seems...tedious.
17.You can move an entire house with a truck:
Talk about a mobile home...sheesh!
18.This is what the first Corvettes ever produced looked like:
Back in 1953, these bad boys cost $3,250.
19.One panel of glass survived the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. This is it:
Wow.
20.The Capitol lawn was mowed by a steam-powered lawnmower way back in 1903:
Yet another thing I just find neat.
21.This is a plane window that lets you adjust and tint the window to your liking:
So you can get even more angry at your seat neighbor.
22.And, finally, Vietnamese toilet paper rolls do not have cardboard tubes in the middle:
Mind-blowing.
