I'm An Incredibly Dumb Man, So My Brain Was Completely Blown After Seeing These 60 Absolutely Incredible Pictures For The Very First Time Last Month
1.This is what the eye of a hurricane looks like from above:
Specifically, the eye wall of Hurricane Katrina.
2.This is George Hackenschmidt, the man credited with inventing the bench press:
Swole folks all over the world, light a candle for Georgy boy.
3.This is what a neanderthal looks like with contemporary clothing and hair:
Would love to crack open an ice cold Diet Pepsi with this man here.
4.This unassuming white dot is the iceberg that sunk the Titanic:
Much less menacing far away.
5.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.
6.This is Chandra Bahadur, the shortest man in recorded history:
He stood just 21.5 inches tall.
7.And here is Chandra Bahadur next to the world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen:
Sultan stands 8 feet 3 inches.
8.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.
9.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.
10.This is how big a human is compared to a wind turbine:
11.And this is how big a tornado is compared to a wind turbine:
Unfathomably enormous!
12.One dollar bills did not have "In God We Trust" on them until 1957:
In a similar vein, "under God" was not in the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954.
13.This is what the remains of a World War I trench looks like today:
These trenches date back to the Battle of the Somme and are located in Newfoundland Memorial Park near Albert, France.
14.This is a BelAZ dump truck, the biggest dump truck in the world:
And this is what a person looks like compared to the wheel of the BelAZ dump truck:
That right there is a T R U C K.
15.Before the invention of RADAR, soldiers used big old Looney Toons-looking contraptions to listen for enemy planes:
Here's another example:
Not sure how you can keep a straight face with those big honkin' ears on.
16.This is Mary Katherine Campbell, the winner of the 1923 Miss America contest:
100 years ago, folks!
17.Last month shattered the record for simultaneous flights in the sky, with an astonishing 22,000 planes and 5 million passengers taking to the air. Here's what that looked like:
Notice the no-fly zones.
18.For a brief but wondrous moment in time, you could get potatoes from a vending machine:
19.Whiskey, too:
It was all downhill from here.
20.For its 50th anniversary, over 300,000 people walked across the Golden Gate Bridge:
Here's another angle of the very packed celebration:
Looks like a very chill sitch and not absolutely panic-inducing at all.
21.There are four miles of tunnels 72 feet underneath Tokyo designed to prevent the city from flooding. The whole system is absolutely huge:
It cost two billion dollars to build.
22.The Eiffel Tower receives a fresh coat of paint every seven years — here's a worker putting some fresh paint on the tower in 1924:
And here's another man painting the tower in a very, very safe manner:
Again, another super chill sitch that isn't panic-inducing at all.
23.This is how big a DOUBLE king sized bed is:
You'd need Ernest Shackleton to make it to the other side of the bed.
24.White bell peppers exist:
And they look disgusting!
25.This is the dish rag that Robert E. Lee used to surrender the Confederate army to the Union during the Civil War:
It's been called "the final flag of the confederacy."
26.This is what the inside of a cremation chamber looks like inside a crematorium:
Where it all ends.
27.Deers shed their antlers every year. This is what an antler-less deer looks like:
I don't know why, but I had no idea this was a thing. I'm dumb, remember?
28.This monstrosity is the Russian Tsar Tank, designed for combat in World War I:
Tears of the Kingdom lookin' tank.
29.This is what a desert oasis looks like:
Specifically the Um el Ma oasis located in Libya.
30.This is what the inside of the ancient Egyptian Djedhoriwefankh's intricately painted coffin looks like:
Gorgeous!
31.This is what Stephen Hawking's grave looks like:
It reads "Here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking."
32.This right here is the smallest window in the world, located in Toledo, Spain:
Not sure what the difference between a window and a small hole is, but hey, I'm no window expert.
33.This is how big the engines of the Space Shuttle Discovery are compared to a person:
They're huge, folks!
34.This is how much dirtier the ceiling in a smoking area of an airport is compared to the rest of the airport:
35.This is what an unfinished escalator looks like:
Neat!
36.This is what $17.5 million stashed away beneath a bed looks like:
Check your beds, people. You never know if there'll be a cool mil or 17 under there.
37.A beluga whale's head is mostly made of fatty tissue...
Which means that the skull of a beluga whale looks like this:
Again, not what I was expecting at all.
38.This, my friends, is what a pregnant guinea pig looks like:
Glorious.
39.This is what a cactus that's been cut in half looks like:
Not sure what I expected, but it wasn't this.
40.This is what the fuel tank that stores all the gasoline beneath the pumps at a gas station looks like:
That's a lot of gas.
41.A pair of sandals was found in the pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb. Here's what they looked like:
Come on, people. Let's make King Tut's sandals 2023's hottest summer fashion accessory.
42.This is what a stingray's skeleton looks like:
Beautiful wings on my man there.
43.This is what a baby snapping turtle looks like:
It's so cute that you almost forget how much it wants to bite your pinky off.
44.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.
45.This is Selma Burke, the woman who designed the portrait of Franklin Roosevelt that's still on the dime to this day:
46.There's a breed of horse known as a Bashkir Curly that has, well, curly hair:
47.I simply must pet:
48.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.
49.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.
50.This is the Peel P50, the smallest car ever produced:
It measured "54 inches long, 41 inches wide, and 47 inches tall."
51.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.
52.And, while we're at it, this is what a super tiny meteorite looks like next to a quarter:
53.This is what a professional cyclist's leg looks like after a race:
My goodness!
54.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.
55.Some blood drives will let you know exactly when and where your blood is used to help save a patient:
Even neater!
56.This is a typewriter built specifically for writing musical notation:
Neat!
57.This is what the view from the top of Mount Rushmore looks like:
Standing on the literal shoulders of giants.
58.Finally, and most importantly, there are some breeds of horses that have mustaches:
59.I'm not kidding:
60.Incredible:
Life is so beautiful.
