My Dumb Little Brain Is Completely Blown After Seeing These 21 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The First Time Last Week
- Oops!Something went wrong.Please try again later.
1.First off, hummingbird eggs are very, very small:
And we must protect these tiny little eggs at all costs.
2.This is what Mount Everest looks like from the window of a plane:
Grim thought: This is also a picture of the hundreds of people who never made it down Everest.
3.This is how big an average sized human is compared to a bunch of different bears:
Note to self: Stay away from those bears you were planning on rendezvousing with.
4.And, just for fun, this is how tall the tallest man who ever lived, Robert Wadlow, is compared to a polar bear:
Not quite tall enough, Bob.
5.Thomas Edison's last breath was captured and now resides in a museum:
My friends, what do you think it smells like?
6.Remember Nickelodeon Studios? Slime Time Live and all that jazz?
7.Well, this is what it looks like today:
You're old.
8.This picture, taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, shows what a dying star looks like:
Specifically the Ring Nebula. The star looks this way because it's "throwing off its outer layers as it runs out of fuel."
9.Hedges can be absolutely massive:
I wish to stroke that hedge.
10.And bolts, my boy? Bolts can be absolutely gigantic:
Imagine how cool it would be to screw one of these bad boys in.
11.The names for "book worm" in different languages are incredible:
12.There's an underwater ancient Roman city that you can dive to and explore:
It's the partial remains of Baiae, an ancient Roman resort town located outside of Naples.
13.This is how big a battleship, specifically the USS Iowa, is compared to a normal-sized boat:
Battleships: They're big.
14.During the Battle of Britain in World War II, cows were painted with bright white paint to stop cars from hitting them during the nightly blackouts:
Thank you for your service, cow.
15.This is Travis Gienger and his award-winning 2,749-pound pumpkin that won the 50th annual World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off:
Folks, do we stan Travis Gienger's giant pumpkin?
16.There are a whole bunch of trees on Earth that were planted with seeds that flew to the moon on Apollo 14:
There were brought there by astronaut Stuart Roosa.
17.This is how England's A303 road evolved over time:
Brings back the giant squids, I say.
18.Ever wonder why NASA uses pens? This is why:
19.Pilots on commercial flights use different cups from everyone else:
This is because "liquid being brought into the cockpit apparently has to have a lid" and so the "cups [can be] bigger, minimizing the number of times the secure door has to be opened."
20.This is what a tumbleweed looks like before, well, it tumbles:
Well, then.
21.And, finally, in sad news, the world's oldest dog, 31-year-old Bobi, passed away yesterday:
RIP to Bobi the king.
