My Dumb Little Brain Just Got Blown After Seeing These 24 Absolutely Incredible Pictures For The First Time Last Week
1.The eyes of Michelangelo's "David" are heart-shaped:
Now, ain't that sweet.
2.This is what "the inside" of a movie screen looks like:
So next time you're sitting there eating your precious little cookie dough bites, just remember: I'm watching you.
3.This is the Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying creature to have ever existed:
It had a wingspan of up to 40 feet and is now going to haunt my dreams.
4.And here's what that big ol' beast looks like from the front:
What a sweet little boy.
5.This is what New Zealand looks like from space:
I think I see Thomas Bombadil.
6.A normal-size piece of paper looks incredibly tiny when held by Shaq:
Look at that puny little piece of paper. Pathetic.
7.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.
8.Here's another look at more of what was found in the tomb:
Look at all that fake bread.
9.Baby zebras are born with brown stripes before they eventually turn black:
Or maybe someone just mowed a lawn right next to that zebra.
10.This is how big a dinosaur's leg bone is next to a human:
Dinosaurs: they were big! Who knew?
11.The propellers on the back of the Titanic were absolutely gigantic:
12.Here's what one of those propellers looks like today:
I got the creeps.
13.Most of the palm trees you see out and about are trimmed. Here's what a bunch of un-trimmed ones look like:
And if you've ever lived in a place with palm trees, you know that there's probably a whole slew of critters in them there unshorn trees.
14.Before modern car washes were invented, one particularly wacky idea was for cars to drive around through water in a circle:
It cost 25 cents but you can safely assume the memories lasted a lifetime.
15.This X-ray, taken by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, is the first X-ray ever:
Well, one of the first. It's of his wife's hand.
16.2XL is the United States is equivalent to 4XL in Australia and Europe:
USA, baby! We're #2!
17.This is what a handful of 200 year old nails look like compared to modern nails:
Did you think you'd see a cool picture of old nails today? Didn't think so.
18.Black paper towels exist:
We call them goth paper towels around here.
19.This is a picture from Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration in 1865. Can you spot him?
Hint: he's a man wearing black.
20.This is what an octopus bite looks like:
AHHHHHHHH!
21.This is how much a coal miner in Dorchester, Virginia made in a week 1962:
Nothing like kicking it at the bathhouse with your fellow coal miners.
22.Have you ever looked closely at the backs of a cat's legs? There are whiskers there called carpal whiskers:
That's your daily Cat Fact.
23.This is what a 100-sided die looks like:
Think of all the annoying rules you'd get to hear after this bad boy got busted out.
24.And, finally, this is what a peeled blueberry looks like:
Nature is incredible.
