Alright, Literally Every Single One Of These Things I Just Found Out Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Month
1.This is Ralph Lincoln, the 11th-generation cousin of Abraham Lincoln:
Specifically, his third cousin many, many, many times removed.
2. Tokyo is HUGE:
3. CGI has come a long, long way:
4.This is the Hoba meteorite, the largest meteorite on Earth:
That we know of, that is. It's located in Namibia.
5. Baby teeth can last decades:
6. Pictures of Jupiter have come a long, long way:
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team, and image processing by Judy Schmidt.
7. The geographic center of the United States is here in South Dakota:
Belle Fourche, to be exact.
8. You can tell the difference between cheap pasta and expensive pasta by looking at them:
9.This pointy thing is what a nuclear bomb actually looks like:
Read more about it here.
10. There are pants that shine INCREDIBLY bright when hit with light:
11. Social Security cards used to not be made out of the flimsiest material available:
12.This is what Queen Elizabeth II looked like when she was 18:
13.This is what the surface of Saturn's moon Titan looks like:
This picture was taken about 886 million miles from the sun.
14. The meal on ANA Airlines is nicer than anything I have ever eaten:
15. It's possible to be born without fingerprints. This is what that looks like:
16.This isn't photoshopped — it's Vantablack, one of the darkest substances on Earth:
The only black hole you can actually get close to and survive ⚫️! #vantablack
17.This is what one of the world's oldest pairs of Levi's jeans looks like:
It's from between 1886 and 1902.
18.This is what the surface of an ASTEROID looks like:
This image was taken just before Rover-1B hopped. Photograph snapped on September 23, 2018 at about 09:46 JST [2/6]
19. Helmets, my boy, helmets do a whoooole lot:
20.Michelangelo's "David" statue is really, really big in person:
21. This is what a $1,000 bill looks like:
Customer brought in a 1934 thousand dollar bill. After ten years in banking finally got to see one in person. from interestingasfuck
That's Grover Cleveland on the bill.
22.This is the violin Wallace Hartley, bandleader on the Titanic, played as the ship sank:
23. The inside of a garbage truck looks really, really complicated:
24.This is a picture of a sunset...on Mars:
Sheesh!
25.President Joe Biden was born closer to the Civil War than today:
Biden was born almost 80 years ago in 1942, and the Civil War ended in 1865, 77 years before Joe was born.
26. Dentists train on one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen in my life:
27. Veneers don't glow under black light:
28. This is what the other side of some potholes looks like:
29. This is what the 2002 Scholastic Book Club catalog looked like:
30.Voldemort's first design was absolutely terrifying:
the first design of what voldemort was supposed to look like. thank god they didn’t chose this one... imagine the trauma. i had enough with the screaming book.
31. All of the US presidents' faces combined look like the world's worst vacuum salesperson:
32. Italian students eat better than I ever have:
33. This is what it looks like when a Ferris wheel is being constructed:
34.This is what the scalp of the Statue of Liberty looks like from the torch:
35.Modern-day George Washington looks like he has a lot of thoughts about saltine crackers:
Not sure how to tell people I made the photorealistic George Washington picture so I’m awkwardly roaming the internet now. But... I made it.
36. Aspirin from the 1930s looks like something out of the Harry Potter book series:
37. There is a McDonald's in Arizona that has a blue arch instead of a yellow one:
There is a single McDonald's in the world where the arches are blue instead of yellow. It's in Arizona, and it has been made this way to avoid contrast with the red cliffs in the background from interestingasfuck
It's because people who live in Sedona "were concerned the giant golden M would clash with the tones of the surrounding landscape."
38. This is what a $100 bill from about 90 years ago looks like, compared with one today:
39.This is the Speyer wine bottle, the oldest known bottle of wine on Earth:
It's almost 1,700 years old and likely still drinkable!
40. Neptune looks as if it could grant you mystical powers, should you ever visit it:
Photo via NASA/ESA/CSA/STS.
41. The inside of a plane's wheel bay looks incredibly complex:
42.And this is what an empty Boeing 787 looks like:
43.This is a tarantula hawk, a wasp whose sting is known to be one of the most painful on planet Earth:
The sting has been likened to feeling as if "a running hair dryer has just been dropped into your bubble bath."
44. Dollar bills can be misprinted in a very frustrating way:
45. Bees in a specific part of North Carolina produce purple honey:
In the sandhills of North Carolina, bees produce purple honey. It is the only place on Earth where it is found. from interestingasfuck
It's apparently due to elderberries.
46. Chips, my friend, well, chips can be huge:
Found this behemoth of a chip in my bag of Takis Waves (first time trying it…) from mildlyinteresting
47. This is what a Coca-Cola bottle from 1975 looked like:
48. This is what a bag of white blood cells looks like:
Here are my removed & genetically modified white blood cells, about to be put back in to hopefully cure my cancer! This is t-cell immunotherapy! from interestingasfuck
And in case you're wondering, OP said last month that they have been cancer-free for two years.
49.Sharks are natural artists:
A shark fitted with a GPS tracker drew a shark in the Atlantic.
50. Some stores have winter simulators so you can really see how warm a jacket is:
51. There are bars that have little patches of ice to keep your beverage nice and frosty:
52. Aaron Paul was once on The Price Is Right:
Neat.
53.Recognize these big ol' rocks? This is Mount Rushmore before the presidential heads were carved into it:
54. Back in the 1970s, Big Macs looked like this:
What a beautiful fossil.
55.Speaking of which, America hasn't really been around for very long at all:
56.Woolly mammoth tusks — well, they were really, really big:
57.Queen Elizabeth had to endure the world before one of its greatest inventions:
58. This is what an ancient Roman road looked like:
A perfectly preserved section of the Via Flaminia Roman road, discovered at a depth of 0.90m during planning of a new water pipeline in Riano. The Flaminian Way struck north from Rome, over the Apennines to the Adriatic coast. from interestingasfuck
59. Picasso just might have listened to the song "Sweet Caroline":
Picasso was alive when Sweet Caroline was released and hopefully jammed out to it at least once. from BarbaraWalters4Scale
60. And, finally, grumpkins exist:
Wow.
