60 Extremely Random Things I Just Found Out That Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Month
1.This is how close Russia is to Alaska:
Sarah Palin is shaking right now.
2.The Liberty Bell is a puny little bell:
Sad-looking bell there, that. Hate to see it. Pathetic stuff. Also check out those goobers on the right.
3.If you're flying in a plane above Bahrain, you can see the entire country:
Little factoid for all my Bahrain heads out there. I see you, big dogs.
4.This is the Terex 33-19 Titan, an absolute behemoth of a truck that was the largest in the world for multiple decades:
Imagine this in the world's largest sandbox. Wow.
5.The inside of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is...underwhelming:
They gotta get some OLED TVs up on those walls. Maybe a mini basketball hoop.
6.This is the "American Super Bowl" section of a German grocery store:
The time-honored American tradition of eating a plain bun filled with ketchup is one I hold so, so dear.
7.This is Henry Ford cruising around in the first car he designed, the Quadricycle:
Looks like this baby can go zero to 6 in no time at all.
8.If you boil 5 gallons of ocean water, this is roughly how much salt you'll be left with:
You're basically straight-up PICKLING out there in the sea.
9.Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" is pretty dang big:
That's actually how big Jesus was in real life. I know. I met him.
10.In the hours after he died, a death mask was made of Napoleon Bonaparte's face:
Napoleon had a big ol' honker, evidently.
11.This is what 8 feet of snow looks like:
My back hurts just thinking about shoveling this.
12.Last month, the world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen, met the world's smallest woman, Jyoti Amge:
Sultan is 8'2" tall and Jyoti is 24 inches tall.
Here's another picture of their meeting:
Neat!
13.Oranges can have green skin in certain climates. Yet, for some reason, they are not called "greens":
Neat!
14.The first Super Bowl didn't sell out — you can see plenty of empty seats in pictures from that day:
15.Circulated money gets worn out really quick:
Think about this the next time you think about eating a dollar bill.
16.Deep scars don't sweat, so dirt doesn't stick to them:
That's one way to stay clean.
17.This is what a "modern" tomato looks like next to a tomato grown with 150-year-old seeds:
A wee bit different, gang!
18.This is how big a moose's tooth is:
From now on, my only unit of measurement will be "as big as a moose's tooth."
19.This is what your blood without red blood cells looks like:
Forbidden orange soda.
20.This is what a dollar bill from 100 years ago looked like:
Would it kill George Washington to smile?
21.This is what the inside of an ATM looks like:
I always thought a little man on a little stool was in there handling my money.
22.Turtles have a deep, dark secret:
I will never trust a turtle again.
23.This is what the private movie theater inside the White House looks like:
What are you screening in the White House private movie theater? Cars 1? Cars 2? Cars 3? Le Cercle Rouge?
24.Not only is there a place that claims the longest hallway in America, but there's also a plaque commemorating it:
America the beautiful.
25.Should you ever get the urge to polish a coconut, this is what it will look like:
And if you do get the urge, please call my cellphone and let me know.
26.Speaking of which, this is how enormous the mustard section in a German grocery store is:
It's......beautiful.
27.This is what a 30-year-old horse's tooth looks like:
Might wanna get that checked out, my equine friend.
28.Last month, this 500-pound tuna was sold for nearly $800,000 at an auction in Tokyo:
Me, personally? I'll be using a fishing rod and getting my tuna for free.
29.Pine cones, my friend...pine cones can be really, really big:
Nature is incredible.
30.This is what the inside of an air mattress looks like:
Now you are blessed with this knowledge. Use it wisely.
31.When the sun is directly overhead, everyday objects won't cast a shadow:
You can read more about the phenomenon here.
32.Windmill blades are absolutely gigantic:
(*Guy who's just seen how big a windmill's blade is* voice) That's a big blade.
33.This ol' lumpy thing is the ball used in the 1930 World Cup final:
You grab some olive oil and some balsamic vinegar to dip that thing in and you're golden.
34.In 1936, you could give birth and stay in the hospital for 11 days and pay less than $62:
Now it costs precisely way, way too much.
35.And, finally, feast your eyes upon this Roman sculpture of a dog licking itself, perhaps the most magnificent work of art ever commissioned:
Art is beautiful.
36.Here's another "American Super Bowl" section found in a German grocery store:
Let's see...donuts...popcorn...nacho dip...I'll allow it.
37.This is what a nude Twix looks like:
Well, a Twix that hasn't been dipped in chocolate. Wild, wild stuff.
38.This is what an ASL word search looks like:
Neat!
39.This is how big a giraffe's leg is:
In case you thought giraffes weren't tall.
40.Artichokes can be beautiful if you let them bloom:
I like to think we all have a little artichoke inside us.
41.This is a preserved 3,500-year-old loaf of bread that was found in an ancient Egyptian tomb from the New Kingdom period:
You eating the ancient bread? Sound off in the comments.
42.This is the bust of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that was used as a model for the design on the dime:
Would it kill FDR to smile?
43.This is what it looks like when your entire bottle of glue dries before you can use it:
Nature is amazing.
44.And, finally, this is what the OTHER side of a ladybug looks like:
Apologies to my ladybug friends for blowing up your spot like this.
45.There are escalators that have tiny little plateaus halfway down:
Science has come so far.
46.Dandelions can be really, really big:
Imagine blowing that sucker. Hard for me to imagine something more thrilling.
47.And safety pins can be huge:
Would love to hang up a piece of laundry on a clothesline with one of these while a pie cools on the windowsill behind me.
48.Maple leaves? MAPLE LEAVES? Oh yeah, they can be very, very tiny:
Had to have a tiny thing in here for my Canadian brothers and sisters.
49.While we're talking about big things, here's a fisherman with a giant tuna he caught off the coast of Nova Scotia:
I hope one day you catch your own metaphorical giant tuna, my friend.
50.Somewhere out there are people with only one line on their hand:
I know you just looked at your hand to confirm there are two lines, admit it.
51.There's a bunch of trash left by humans on the moon. In fact, if you really want to know, there are 96 bags of human waste on that big pie in the sky:
Now THAT'S amore.
52.This is what a modern-day banana looks like next to a wild, predomesticated banana that used to be much more prevalent:
Although, imagine how fun it would be to eat that undomesticated banana and start spitting the seeds at your friends and families.
53.In the '70s, Casio made a calculator that also had a lighter in it...a CALCULIGHTER:
I cannot describe to you how much I need to calculate sin and cosine while lighting a newspaper on fire.
54.This is what it looks like if you excavate and cook all the cookie dough in your ice cream:
Honestly, looks really good. I love the slop.
55.In addition to the original (Nic Cage voice) Declaration of Independence, a bunch of copies were made and sent to other places. Here's what one of those copies looks like:
Imagine setting this on fire with the calculighter? I don't support it, but you have to admit it'd be cool.
56.The longest word in the English language is a doozy:
Would make a beautiful name for a dog.
57.Quadruple A batteries exist:
Another one of god's miracles.
58.This is what it looks like when molten steel hits the floor:
Every day the world becomes more and more like a cartoon.
59.Some places have stop lights that let you know how much time is left before they turn green:
This would lead to a Purge-like environment if it was all over the US.
60.And finally, this is what a pack of 110-year-old crayons looks like:
Tell me, friends — would you stick one of these up your nose?
