1.The difference between $5,000 in gold and $5,000 in silver is very, very noticeable:
2.Earth will be home to 8 billion people by the middle of November:
3.This is how big Ukraine is compared with the United States:
4.This is what the homepage of Amazon.com looked like in 1995:
5.The Great Sphinx of Giza...has a tail!!!
6.This is what the iceberg that sank the Titanic looked like after being hit:
7.This is how thick one of the cables holding up the Golden Gate Bridge is:
8.This is what a peeled lime looks like:
9.This lil' fella here is a baby flamingo:
10.This is what a dollar bill looked like in 1917:
11.Hammerhead sharks look absolutely terrifying in X-ray form:
12.Speaking of terrifying, this is what an X-ray of a pregnant dog looks like:
13.This is what the US–Canada border looks like in Idaho:
14.And this is what it looks like in Washington state:
15.This man, Paul Karason, had his skin turn permanently blue after spending years ingesting colloidal silver:
16.This right here is Vincent van Gogh's painting palette:
17.This is what olive oil looks like after it's pressed from olives:
18.This is what a living sand dollar looks like compared with a dead one:
19.French fries, my boy, well, french fries can be very, very long:
20.And bananas, my boy, well, bananas can be very tiny:
21.This right here is a vaquita, one of the most endangered animals in the world:
22.Bottles of soda look adorable before they get blown up with compressed air:
23.Marisa Tomei's name can do amazing things:
24.This is what first class on a plane in 1960 looked like:
25.The inside of a pine cone makes me somewhat uncomfortable:
26.The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is shrinking:
27.This is what the steering wheel of an F1 race car looks like:
28.The Mars rovers are way, way bigger than you thought they were:
29.This is what Albert Einstein's desk looked like the day he died:
30.And this is what a 3-year-old Albert Einstein looked like:
31.This right here is a 70 million–year–old imprint of dinosaur skin:
32.The barcode was apparently invented in North Carolina:
33.This is how big a blue whale's heart is compared with a human being:
34.This is what it looks like when you take the metal top off a gas stove:
35.CGI has come a long, long way:
36.The presidents on Mount Rushmore were originally planned to look like this:
37.This is what a polar bear's paw print looks like compared with a human handprint:
38.This is how giant Galápagos tortoises sleep:
39.In 1907, world-class swimmer Annette Kellerman was arrested for indecency after she wore a bathing suit like this one to Revere Beach in Massachusetts:
40.South Korea and Ireland are almost the same size, although South Korea has 10 times Ireland's population:
41.McDonald's restaurants in France serve something called the McBaguette:
42.Some vegan chicken wings have little wooden "bones" in them:
43.This is what a typhoon looks like from space:
44.Pay phones still exist...and they take cards:
45.This beauty is Britain's oldest door, constructed almost 1,000 years ago, in the 1050s:
46.This is what a clear shot of the planet Mercury looks like:
47.This is what the inside of a wasp's nest looks like:
48.The Babybel cheese in France is GIGANTIC:
49.This is what the skeleton of a python looks like:
50.A lot of soda cans in Hawaii still have ridges at the top:
51.Los Angeles County is big. Really big:
52.These big fellas are Hercules beetles, one of the largest types of beetles in the world. They can also fly!
53.After enough time, some gold crayons will turn green:
54.This 3,000-pound absolute unit is Lubber, the world's largest horse back in 1930:
55.In 1962, three men escaped Alcatraz Island prison after fooling guards with papier-mâché decoy heads that looked like this:
56.This is what's in your toothpaste:
57.The top of a UPS truck isn't the same color as the rest of the truck:
58.This man won a costume competition in 1894 while dressed as a piece of bacon:
59.Telephone linemen go to a special training school that looks like this:
60.And finally, you know what the Germans call a Quarter Pounder With Cheese? A Royal Käse:
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