My Dumb Little Brain Is Completely And Totally Blown After Seeing All These Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The First Time Last Month
1.This is a wax sculpture of Thomas Wedders, the man whose 7.5-inch nose was apparently the largest nose in history:
No jokes, please. None.
2.This is Ralph Lincoln, the 11th-generation cousin of Abraham Lincoln:
Specifically, his third cousin many, many, many times removed.
3.This is what a polar bear's paw print looks like compared with a human hand:
4.Traffic lights are absolutely gigantic:
Remind me never to start a fight with a traffic light.
5.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.
6.This is the world's tallest statue, the Statue of Unity:
It's located in India and is 600 feet high.
7.This is what the surface of an ASTEROID looks like:
Specifically the asteroid Ryugu. It was taken by Japan's space agency after they landed a rover on the ol' chunk of rock.
8.Redwood trees are absolutely gigantic:
9.This is what an anaconda looks like in the wild:
I'd only ever seen one in that documentary with J.Lo and Jon Voight. They can be upwards of 30 feet long.
10.This is what a typhoon looks like from space:
Specifically, Super Typhoon Maysak in 2015.
11.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...
...well, this is what a much less blurry, much more recent photograph of that same "face" looks like:
I still want to believe.
12.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.
13.This is what the big ol' noggin of the Statue Of Liberty looks like from the torch:
How can I tell my barber I want my hair cut like Lady Liberty without telling them I want my hair cut like Lady Liberty?
14.This very, very, very tiny rectangle is $57 in gold:
15.This is what one of the world's oldest pairs of Levi's jeans looks like:
It's from between 1886 and 1902.
16.They sell red Solo cups as "American party cups" in New Zealand:
America's finest cultural export.
17.These are what some of the Titanic's lifeboats looked like after they were docked in New York after the ship sunk:
Imagine being on one of those in the pitch black night in the middle of the ocean. No, thanks!
18.This is what the US-Canada border looks like in Idaho:
19.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.
20.This just might set the world record for smallest hand-carved wooden spoon:
I love this little spoon.
21.This is the Queensland Stinger, one of the world's most dangerous plants:
Apparently, touching it feels like you're simultaneously "being burned by hot acid and electrocuted at the same time."
22.This is the Murchison meteorite, a meteorite found in Australia that formed over seven billion years ago:
That makes it over two billion years older than our solar system.
23.Despite making up the vast majority of the country, only 2% of the Australian population lives inside the yellow highlight on this map:
This is due to, among other things, many, many animals that do not want to see you thrive.
And here's a sign you might see before entering the yellow portion of that map of Australia:
I think I'll turn around.
24.This is the Thanksgiving menu that was served at the Plaza Hotel in 1899:
What are you going for? Might be partridge and orange jelly tarts for your boy.
25.Those orange pylons in football end zones have so much technology in them that they require fans to operate:
I can't even make a joke about NFL officiating. The Giants have killed my spirit.
26.Cats, my friend...cats can get really, really big:
This is a Maine coon cat. It can be 40 inches in length.
27.And mushrooms? Well, mushrooms can be blue:
This is either Entoloma mengsongense or Entoloma hochstetteri. Don't eat it.
28.Veneers don't glow under a blacklight:
Sorry to break the news to you.
29.The last McDonald's in Iceland closed in 2009. Feast your eyes on the final cheeseburger sold in the country, which has been preserved and lying in state for the past decade:
Honestly, throw a little Tapatio on that there burger and we might be in business.
30.This is astronaut Dr. Joseph P. Allen IV doing maintenance on a satellite in the middle of the cold, dark void of space:
Again, no thanks!
31.Dirt doesn't stick to scars or burns:
Because there aren't any sweat glands.
32.There are little vaccine packets being dropped into wooded areas to help stop the spread of rabies:
Like a chaotic good silica gel packet.
33.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.
34.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.
35.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!
36.Sperm whales sleep vertically:
This is not terrifying to me. Nope, not at all.
37.This is what a peeled lime looks like:
38.Reese's orange is a trademarked color:
I wonder if Good & Plenty pink is also trademarked.
39.To scale, this is how big a strand of human hair is compared to an egg cell:
The egg cell, or ovum, is the largest cell humans have and over 10,000 times bigger than a sperm cell.
40.This is what some of the first New York City tour buses looked like in 1904:
No walls...no seatbelts...just vibes.
41.Champagne vending machines exist:
God is good, folks. God is good.
42.This is how big the Democratic Republic of the Congo is compared to the east coast of the United States:
Bigger or smaller than you expected?
43.This is how big an eagle's talons are:
Note to self: do not trifle with an eagle.
44.This totally safe device was known as a baby cage, a wire cage suspended out of an apartment window meant to give babies born in cities extra light and air:
And probably a lifelong hatred of pigeons.
45.This is Sorvagsvatn, a lake in the Faroe Islands known as "the lake that hangs over the ocean":
Ain't that neat.
46.This is what an elephant's tail looks like close up:
It's HAIRY!!! My goodness.
And this is what one of those tail hairs looks like up close:
It's thick, folks. IT'S THICK!
47.This is apparently a set of "instructions for new mothers" given to new moms in the 1940s:
NEVER UNWRAP YOUR BABY.
48.Bootleg Lego heads are terrifying:
NO, THANKS! Let's leave this to the experts.
49.These are the shoes (well, shoe) Marie Antoinette wore to her execution during the French Revolution:
Leave a comment describing the kicks you're wearing to your untimely end.
50.Speaking of 18th and 19th century French history, Napoleon's hat recently sold at auction for 2.1 million dollars:
Leave a comment describing the hat you'd wear if you were exiled on an island off the coast of Tuscany.
51.This is how big Canada and the USA are compared to Europe:
52.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 humans always do.
53.This is what a float from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade looked like in the 1930s:
Uncle Sam seems OVER it.
54.This is what Ireland looks like from space:
I think I see Bono.
55.This is what in-flight entertainment looked like in the 1960s:
My neck hurts just looking at this.
56.This is the tree that will be used as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree for the 2023 holiday season:
It's from a suburb of Binghamton, New York. For some reason I thought these trees came from, like, a majestic forest and not your aunt's front yard.
57.This is what Jupiter would look like if it was as close as the Moon:
Petition to replace the moon with Jupiter. Get on it, Biden.
58.This is how big a wolf is in comparison to a human:
Wolves...they're big.
59.In 1984, a giant dinosaur replica was moved via a helicopter to the Boston Museum of Science:
Never thought you'd see a dinosaur being airlifted, did you? I did, personally, but I'm sure you didn't.
60.This is what first coat of paint on a painting looks like compared to the final coat:
Art! It's a process.
61.This is a picture from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Can you spot Abe?
Who hasn't wanted to play a Gettysburg-themed Where's Waldo?
62.These are three of the smallest bones in your body, all located in your ear: the malleus, the incus, and the stapes:
Adorable little bones.
63.This is what a flying fish looks like, wings outstretched:
Look at my boy.
64.This is a close-up of some well-worn pebbles on the surface of Mars:
The most fascinating picture of rocks you'll see all day. Let me know in the comments if you've seen more interesting rocks than these.
65.And, folks, this is what a baby flamingo looks like:
Glorious.
