My Tiny Little Brain Is Completely Blown After Seeing These 50 Incredibly Fascinating Pictures For The First Time Last Month
1.In Germany, Mr. Clean is known as Mr. Proper:
2.While in Spain, he's known as Don Limpio:
3.A smidgen is an actual unit of measurement:
It comes out to 1/32 of a teaspoon.
4.This is how big Alaska is compared to Europe:
5.This is Robert Wadlow, the tallest man who ever lived:
Before he died, he measured 8'11" tall.
6.And here's Mr. Wadlow with his slightly shorter dad:
7.This is what the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC looked like in 1907:
8.And this is what it looked like 100 years later:
9.This is what one of Shaq's championship rings looks like on a typical-sized human hand:
10.These are two of the earliest known photographs of Saturn and Jupiter, taken in the 19th century:
11.This is what an intact, peeled egg looks like:
12.And this is what a big ol' chunk of a peeled aloe plant looks like:
I wish to bite it.
13.This is what the First Class Lounge on the Titanic looked like:
14.And this is what the Third Class dining room of the Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic, looked like:
15.The man in the middle in this picture is a college-aged Richard Nixon:
He was a member of the Whittier College football team.
16.This is the Times Building, the center of New York's Times Square, under construction in 1903:
17.And here's what that same area looks like over a hundred years later:
18.This is the last image NASA's InSight rover sent from Mars before running out of power at the end of its mission last month:
19.This monument to the doomed Donner Party shows just how deep the snow the unfortunate travelers had to deal with was:
20.This is what Abraham Lincoln looked like when he became president in 1861...
21....and this is what he looked like four short years later, in 1865:
He quite literally had seen some things.
22.The original design for the Michelin Man was absolutely terrifying:
23.You can buy gigantic safety pins:
24.In 1933, A.L. Kahn caught a 5,000-pound manta ray off the coast of Florida:
And then, he brought it to New Jersey.
25.A billion is a really, really big number:
26.That tiny little fellah on the left there is a normal clothes dryer compared to a commercial dryer on its right:
27.This man, Tom Pearcy, set the world record for "largest pumpkin boat" in 2018:
What a hero.
28.This is what the Golden Gate Bridge looked like while it was under construction:
29.This is Charles Ponzi, the infamous scammer ponzi schemes got their name from:
30.This is Pauline Musters, the shortest woman ever to live:
She was 24 inches tall when she died at the age of 19.
31.These are hand-drawn sketches of the phases of the moon Galileo Galilei drew in 1610:
32.Emu eggs look like something straight out of Game of Thrones:
33.In 1926, two students were able to fully dissect an entire intact nervous system from a human body:
It took over 1,500 hours. It's now on display at the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine.
34.Hotels used to have to put up signs explaining that electricity is safe and not to be feared:
"The use of electricity for lightning is in no way harmful to health, nor does it affect the soundness of sleep."
35.In 1955, it cost $4.75 to go on 10 rides at Disneyland:
That's a little over $50 today.
36.In the 1930s, this couple won an Atlantic City dance marathon after dancing for 1,473 hours:
Mamma mia!
37.And, yes, people did fall asleep standing up while dancing at these marathons:
38.Someone had to hand-carve all of the presidents' eyes on Mount Rushmore:
Looks chill!
39.This is what that tiny li'l ball in a Guinness beer looks like:
Okay, cool!
40.This extremely complicated thing is what the steering wheel of a Formula 1 race car looks like:
41.This is the message then-president Jimmy Carter sent aboard the Voyager spacecraft to any aliens the ship might encounter:
42.California once had a place called the California Alligator Farm where children were encouraged to get up close and personal with alligators and even take them for rides:
43.This terrifying picture is a closeup of a man with Bruce, the mechanical shark created for the movie Jaws:
44.This is what a toucan's skeleton looks like:
Not sure what I was expecting.
45.This is a real 19th-century advertisement for cough medicine with a very special ingredient — heroin:
46.In Las Vegas in 1955, you could purchase a hotel plot for $3 million:
Deal of a lifetime!
47.In 2003, it was discovered that a full-grown, 400-pound Bengal tiger was being kept as a pet in a New York City apartment. Police were able to rescue the tiger, and he lived out the rest of his life in an Ohio animal sanctuary:
There was also a 5-foot alligator in the apartment.
48.In 1876, Virgil A. Gates patented the "Moustache Guard," an absolutely brilliant invention for "holding the moustache out of the way of food or liquid while eating or drinking":
A true visionary.
49.This is what a 100-year-old marriage certificate looks like:
50.And, finally, most importantly, bananas float in rum but sink in cognac:
Essential knowledge.
