Okay, My Dumb Little Brain Is Completely Blown After Seeing These 50 Absolutely Incredible Pictures For The Very First Time Last Month
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1.Frogs can be very, very, very, very, very tiny:
A frog this tiny is known as a froglet. Ain't that sweet?
2.And screws? Well, screws can be absolutely gigantic:
This one is meant for mounting solar panels.
3.This is Eugene Cernan, who is, as of 2023, the last man to ever walk on the moon:
He did it way back in 1972. It's been that long, folks!
You might recognize Eugene from this iconic picture of his moon walk:
4.This is the Willamette meteorite, the largest meteorite that's ever been found in the United States:
It is the sixth largest in the world and weighs 15.5 tons.
5.And this is what a small chunk of a random meteorite looks like:
It's apparently very, very heavy.
6.This photo, taken by Louis Botan in 1899, is one of the first photos ever taken underwater:
The very first picture taken underwater was done some years earlier, but that was done by attaching a camera to a pole and lowering it into the water. This is the first taken by a diver also submerged.
7.This is a picture of one of the last Tasmanian tigers, an animal that went extinct in 1936:
It lived, obviously, in Tasmania. Recently, there's been some talk of scientists trying to resurrect the tiger.
8.And this is one of two remaining Northern white rhinoceros left on Earth:
The two rhinos, both female, live in Kenya and are guarded 24/7.
9.This is what a "modern" tomato looks like next to a tomato grown with 150-year-old seeds:
A wee bit different, gang!
10.One dollar in 1913 is worth $30.22 today:
11.Unfortunately, there's no treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Just a lot of nothing:
Nicolas Cage... how could you lie to us?
12.This tea chest is one of two surviving chests from the Boston Tea Party back in 1773:
Look at that nice little flower design. Couldn't be me throwing that into a harbor.
13.This is Albert Woolson, the last surviving Civil War veteran:
Albert fought for the Union army and died in 1956 at the age of 106.
14.This is one of only two remaining pirate Jolly Roger flags in existence:
It was captured in 1790. According to the BBC, the flag's red color "signified the pirates intended to spare no life if a battle broke out during a ship's capture."
15.This is the world's longest limo, the American Dream limo:
It was equipped with both a hot tub and a helicopter landing pad. Just the essentials.
16.There have been some really terrible and really out-there amendments proposed to the US constitution:
Honestly, "The United States of Earth" goes hard. You can read more about them here and even order yourself your own pocket constitution for free.
17.This, my friends, is what a hairless bear looks like:
This bear's name was Dolores. Experts are not entirely sure why Dolores had no hair, but we love her all the same.
18.It's possible to get a 2x4 from the center of a tree:
Although, that's not what you want. It's the weakest and oldest part of a tree.
19.This is what the FBI's fingerprint files looked like in 1942:
Got to think they cleaned this up a bit in the last 80 years.
20.This is what Brian Shaw, four-time winner of the World's Strongest Man competition, looks like next to a couple of 200-pound bodybuilders:
Pipsqueaks!
21.The Titanic had a full gym on board, complete with a rowing machine. This is what it looked like:
Would have loved to pump iron with Mr. Astor.
22.This is what a real executioner's mask looked like:
Incredibly goofy but also very, very terrifying.
23.This is what the world's oldest soccer ball ever found looks like:
It dates back to the 1500s and looked like Frankenstein's monster.
24.This picture, taken in 1838 by Louis Daguerre, is the first-ever photo to have a person in it:
Can you spot the person?
25.And this is the first picture of Earth from the moon, taken in 1966 by Lunar Orbiter 1:
26.And, while we're at it, this picture of a human hand captured in 1895 is the oldest surviving X-ray of the human body:
27.Okay, one more. This is the first aerial photo ever taken, captured by James Wallace Black from a hot-air balloon high above Boston:
This picture, from 1860, is called "Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It."
28.If a burn is bad enough, dirt will not stick to it anymore:
Because there aren't any sweat glands.
29.This is one of the last pictures ever taken of Queen Elizabeth II, taken only two days before her death in September 2022:
30.The world's oldest diving suit is absolutely terrifying:
Looks sort of like a friendly pink starfish you may know. A scary, scary starfish.
31.You're probably familiar with the gold funerary mask of King Tut — but did you know that another pharaoh's gold death mask was found a few years later? This is the mask of the pharaoh Psusennes I:
His completely intact tomb was found in 1940. However, because of its swampy location in Egypt's Nile delta, a lot of what was stored in the tomb was destroyed over the years.
32.This is what the inside of Big Ben looks like behind one of its clock faces:
It sure is big.
33.When Hurricane Floyd hit Florida in 1999, flamingos from the Miami-Metro zoo took refuge in a bathroom to protect themselves from the storm:
Well, zookeepers put them there to protect them from the storm.
34.There's a road in Japan that connects the Toyama and Nagano prefectures that are surrounded by giant snow walls that reach up to 65 feet high:
Like something out of Mario Kart!
35.This 17th-century painting by Giovanni Stanchi shows what the inside of a watermelon looked like in the 1600s, before selective breeding:
Look at that old fruit.
36.This set of 52 playing cards, dating back to the 1400s, is the oldest surviving example of a full deck of cards:
Honestly gorgeous!
37.There's a city in Russia located next to an absolutely gigantic diamond mine:
The mine is apparently "the world's second-largest excavated hole."
38.This is what the world's largest gold nugget, named the Welcome Stranger nugget, looked like. It was found in Australia in 1869:
This is actually a model of the nugget. It weighed almost 160 pounds and was sold pretty much immediately for £9,534, which is about £970,000 today.
39.Telephone lineworkers go to telephone lineworker school where they learn how to be telephone lineworkers:
Say "telephone lineworker" five times fast.
40.Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a pipsqueak standing next to Wilt Chamberlain and André the Giant:
This picture was taken shortly before Arnold's first wedding. Just kidding! It was on the set of Conan the Destroyer.
41.This is how gigantic the femur of a sauropod dinosaur is:
Sauropods are a classification of dinosaurs that includes the Brontosaurus.
42.King Henry VIII's armor had a very special feature:
No jokes in the comments. Please, none.
43.This is what a real-deal, true-to-life muffin man looked like in 1930s London:
So now, when someone asks you if you know the muffin man, well, you have your answer.
44.This is what the throne of King Charlemagne looked like:
Over the course of almost 600 years, more than 30 leaders of the Holy Roman Empire were officially coronated on this throne.
45.This is the foldout bed George Washington slept on during the Revolutionary War:
You'll notice it folds into a trunk. Only the finest for old George.
46.On September 3, 1967, Sweden made a shift from driving on the left side of the road to driving on the right. This is a picture from the first day after the big change:
Looks like a chill, relaxing day.
47.This is the "Feejee mermaid," a creature that was supposedly caught in the ocean near, well, Fiji. It was most famously displayed by P.T. Barnum in his circus sideshow:
Obviously, it's not a mermaid. It's actually a few different animals, most likely a combo of "monkey and fish parts, featuring reptile claws, teeth, and clay and papier mâché filler." Welcome to my nightmares, Feejee mermaid!
48.This is what the inside of a 1970s spacesuit looked like:
Especially the Russian Orlan suit. Looks comfortable and not horrifying at all!
49.When the Amazon River meets the Río Negro in Brazil, a phenomenon known as the 'meeting of the waters' occurs wherein the two rivers don't initially mix:
This is due to "differences in temperature, speed, and water density."
50.And, finally, if you win a car on The Price Is Right, you get a special little license plate cover:
I never knew how much I needed something I didn't have until I saw this.
