My Dumb Little Brain Is Completely And Totally Blown After Seeing These 23 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The First Time This Week
1.Traffic lights are absolutely gigantic:
Remind me never to start a fight with a traffic light.
2.This is what the toilet on a submarine looks like:
If I have to read a list of directions that long to use a toilet, I'm going to tell you right now: It will end catastrophically.
3.This is the world's tallest statue, the Statue of Unity:
It's located in India and is 600 feet high.
4.This is the world's most isolated lighthouse, Thridrangar Lighthouse, located in Iceland:
It's only accessible via helicopter, in case you're planning on a trip.
5.Speaking of isolated things, this is a house also located in Iceland that some have called the most isolated house in the world:
Would be cool to enjoy one single beer there.
6.This is Ralph Lincoln, the 11th-generation cousin of Abraham Lincoln:
Specifically, his third cousin many, many, many times removed.
7.In this picture, you can see both Europe and Africa:
That's Spain on the left and Morocco on the right. Look how close! Neat!
8.Sperm whales sleep vertically:
This is not terrifying to me. Nope, not at all.
9.You're probably familiar with the "Face on Mars," an image of a formation on Mars from the 1970s that launched a million conspiracy theories...
10....well, this is what a much less blurry, much more recent photograph of that same "face" looks like:
I still want to believe.
11.Speaking of Mars, this is what a sunset looks like on that there planet:
Not as nice as Key West, but what are you gonna do. Martians make do.
12.This is what a polar bear's paw print looks like compared with a human hand:
13.This is what the US-Canada border looks like in Idaho:
14.This is what a peeled lime looks like:
15.This is Simone Origone — the man who set the world record for fastest speed traveled on skis — traveling, well, fast:
This man needs a Babybel cheese sponsorship STAT.
16.This very, very, very tiny rectangle is $57 in gold:
17.Lots of US presidents have spoken multiple languages — here's a list of every multilingual president:
Shoutout to the Little Magician and his Dutch prowess.
18.Some grocery carts have special little holders for your phone:
I am now comfortable saying that we have reached what Francis Fukuyama called "the end of history."
19.Some people have extra lines on their pinkies:
I want an extra line! Maaaaan.
20.These are the fill-in-the-blank predictions on the special year 2000 edition of Cheerios called "Millenios":
I don't know why, but it's kinda bummin' me out.
21.Reese's orange is a trademarked color:
I wonder if Good & Plenty pink is also trademarked.
22.This is what one of the world's oldest pairs of Levi's jeans looks like:
It's from between 1886 and 1902.
23.And finally, just for fun, check out the optical illusion these laptop keys make:
See the dots??? DO YOU?!?!
