My Microscopic Little Pea Brain Is Totally Blown After Seeing These 22 Absolutely Incredible Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week
1.This is George Hackenschmidt, the man credited with inventing the bench press:
Swole folks all over the world, light a candle for Georgy boy.
2.For a brief but wondrous moment in time, you could get potatoes from a vending machine:
3.Whiskey, too:
It was all downhill from here.
4.This is Chandra Bahadur, the shortest man in recorded history:
He stood just 21.5 inches tall.
5.And here is Chandra Bahadur next to the world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen:
Sultan stands 8 feet 3 inches.
6.This is what the end of the eastern portion of the Great Wall of China looks like:
Chill place to repel foreign invaders, for sure.
7.This is what a bunch of fossilized dinosaur eggs look like:
Gotta get a mad scientist in that living room to bring those back to life.
8.There's an abandoned island sitting off the coast of Nagasaki in Japan:
It's called Hashima Island and it used to be home to over 5,000 people. It was abandoned in the 1970s.
9.This is Selma Burke, the woman who designed the portrait of Franklin Roosevelt that's still on the dime to this day:
10.There's a breed of horse known as a Bashkir Curly that has, well, curly hair:
11.I simply must pet:
12.This is the Swiss mini-gun, the smallest working pistol in the world:
It's two inches long and completely illegal in the United States.
13.This is what an ultraviolet picture of the sun looks like:
In this particular image, the red parts are cooler while the green and blue parts are much hotter.
14.This is the Peel P50, the smallest car ever produced:
It measured "54 inches long, 41 inches wide and 47 inches tall."
15.This is what the back of the Price Is Right wheel looks like:
This might be the most mind-blowing thing I have ever seen.
16.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.
17.And, while we're at it, this is what a super tiny meteorite looks like next to a quarter:
18.This is what a professional cyclist's leg looks like after a race:
My goodness!
19.Some blood drives will let you know exactly when and where your blood is used to help save a patient:
Even neater!
20.This is a typewriter built specifically for writing musical notation:
Neat!
21.This is what the view from the top of Mount Rushmore looks like:
Standing on the literal shoulders of giants.
22.And, finally, one of the more ridiculous inventions of the 19th century was this, a "mass shaving machine" designed to shave a bunch of men all at once:
What a time to be alive.
