My Dumb Little Brain Is Totally Blown After Seeing These 22 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The First Time Last Week
1.This painting by Leonardo da Vinci is the most expensive painting ever sold:
The painting, "Salvator Mundi," sold for $450 million in 2017. There's also some controversy as to how much Leo had to do with it, but that's for another post.
2.This is what a license plate from Antarctica looks like:
Read more about why this exists here.
3.This is Rumeysa Gelgi, the world's tallest woman:
She stands just over 7 feet tall.
4.Kids used to play on playgrounds that were unfathomably dangerous:
This is a real playground from the early 1900s located in Dallas, Texas.
5.This is Ham the chimpanzee, the first ape launched into space:
He was sent up to test cognitive function in space as well as the safety of the rocket and capsule being sent up. Ham's mission was successful, and he returned to Earth unharmed and a true American hero.
6.This is Maurice Tillet, a wrestler who some say the beloved character Shrek was based on:
Tillet, known as the French Angel, apparently went undefeated for 18 months in the early 1940s.
7.This is a wax sculpture of Thomas Wedders, the man whose 7-and-a-half-inch nose was apparently the largest nose in history:
8.Here's a list of every named generation going back to the 1400s:
And I bet they all hated the one that came after them, as human's always do.
9.Astronauts aboard the International Space Station can and do vote, and they even have a little voting booth aboard they go into:
This became a thing in "1997 when the Texas Legislature passed a bill that allowed NASA astronauts to vote from space."
10.Human touch really does a doozy on any and every kind of surface:
11.This is how much every act performing at Woodstock in 1969 was paid:
Grateful Dead should've held out for more, honestly.
12.Before he was James Bond, Sean Connery competed in the Mr. Universe pageant in 1953:
13.This is how big the engines on the Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon were compared to engineer Wernher von Braun:
14.This rock formation, located in Finland, is known as Kummakivi. It's apparently been balancing like this for 12,000 years:
15.During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, some churches handed out little self-serve communion kits:
16.This is just a small sample of what researchers found in King Tut's tomb after discovering it in 1922:
You can see an entire chariot just casually chillin' there.
17.This picture straight out of Harold Potter is of the former Cincinnati Public Library, built in 1874 and demolished in 1955:
18.This is what the head of an ant looks like super, super close up:
It's 140 times magnified.
19.This thing here is a sculpture of a cucumber from the Egyptian Middle Kingdom:
What a beautiful cucumber.
20.This is the letter former Duke basketball coach, Coach K, sent Michael Jordan upon learning he was going to the University of North Carolina:
It reads: "Dear Mike: I am sorry to hear that you no longer have an interest in learning more about Duke University, however I do want you to know my staff and I wish you the very best in your college career. You are a fine young man and you should make an immediate impact on whatever you choose. Take care, and best of luck."
21.Before alarm clocks, people known as Knocker-Ups would get paid to go around in the early hours of the morning and bang on windows to wake people up:
22.And finally...
My goodness.
