2.This is one of the few known photos of Vincent van Gogh, shown here at age 20:
3.This is the 2.7mm Kolibri, the world's smallest pistol:
4.In a French deck of playing cards, instead of seeing J, Q, and K, you'll see V, D, and R:
5.This is what Bob Ross looked like before he had his iconic hairdo:
6.This is a picture of the ice mountains of Pluto as seen from the New Horizons space probe:
7.Also, while we're at it, this is how big Pluto (above its moon Charon) is compared with North America:
8.These were some of the job necessities for a TWA flight attendant in the 1940s:
9.This is what Hong Kong looked like circa 1920...
10.And here's what it looks like today:
11.This is the last photograph ever taken of the Titanic:
12.And this, in all its 1912 glory, is what a first-class suite looked like on the ship:
13.Michelangelo's "David" is gigantic:
14.There's a device called a Vein Viewer that shows doctors and nurses where your veins are located:
15.This is what cigarette smoke does to a wall:
16.The United States once had a $10,000 bill, the largest denomination of US currency ever produced for public use:
17.Texas makes Europe look super small:
18.And, for a little perspective, this is what the entire United States looks like compare to just a small part of the planet Saturn's north pole:
19.A school bus looks like a tiny little baby next to a haul truck:
20.Here's a haul truck next to two normal-size humans:
21.This is what Charlie Chaplin looked like as a young man:
22.For reference, here's how you're probably used to remembering Charlie Chaplin:
23.And just for good measure, here's what an eightysomething Charlie Chaplin looked like:
24.This is how big a baby kangaroo is when it's born:
25.This is what a 100-sided die looks like:
26.You're probably familiar with the front of King Tut's iconic death mask:
Well, this is what the back looks like:
27.This is María Branyas, a 115-year-old woman who just became the oldest living person on Earth as of January 17, 2023:
28.There's a beer bottle 35,000 feet down into the deepest point of Earth, the Challenger Deep:
29.This is the chair Abraham Lincoln was sitting in the night he was assassinated:
30.This is what the inside of the Leaning Tower of Pisa looks like:
31.You're probably familiar with a blob fish, that lovable, kinda human-looking fish with the super-weird face:
Well, this is what a blob fish looks like in its natural environment, before it's been subjected to immense changes in pressure:
32.This is one of the only pictures of President Andrew Jackson, taken shortly before his death in 1845:
33.This is what a shark's brain looks like compared to a dolphin's brain:
34.Tourists used to be able to freely climb up the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt to sunbathe and have tea parties:
35.This is what a closeup of a line drawn with a red crayon on a piece of paper looks like under a microscope:
36.The man on the left, Muggsy Bogues, played in the NBA almost twice as long as the man on the right, Yao Ming:
37.This is what Albert Einstein's desk looked like on the day he died:
38.And, again, we all know Mount Rushmore:
But have you seen the back? This is what Mount Rushmore looks like from behind:
39.The two people depicted in Grant Wood's "American Gothic" actually exist. This is what they looked like:
40.Changing gears to something of totally equal importance, you can spell "BILLIE EILISH" on a calculator:
41.This is what happens when you polish a coconut:
42.This is what the Statue of Liberty looked like while it was under construction in France:
43.Really tiny single-person benches exist:
44.This is what the inside of the White House looked like when it was being reconstructed in the late 1940s:
45.This fella here is a Japanese spider crab (who, hand to God, is named Big Daddy), a species of crab that can grow to be 12 feet across:
46.Al Capone's Philadelphia prison cell was nicer than my apartment:
47.This is a picture of some of Gandhi's only earthly possessions when he died:
48.Prescription cocaine is still used today in hospitals as a local anesthetic:
49.This is what a, uh, whale's you-know-what looks like:
50.During World War II, Walt Disney developed a Mickey Mouse gas mask, designed to help children get comfortable and relaxed while wearing the mask:
Here's a totally not frightening closeup:
51.Garlic can be just one giant clove:
52.This right here is the Warner Bros. Studio Cafe menu from February 1941. It's a very "1941" menu:
53.This is what a nuclear reactor looks like from above:
54.This is how big a moose's tooth is:
55.In the 1950s, archeologists discovered the 13th-century doodles of a Russian boy named Onfim, some of the oldest drawings by a child ever discovered:
56.Cement trucks and other giant trucks can have student drivers:
57.Before production began on Bambi, live deer were brought into the studio to teach Disney artists how to properly draw them:
58.Blue stop signs exist:
59.This totally safe device was known as a baby cage, a wire cage suspended out of an apartment window meant to give babies born in cities extra light and air:
60.And finally, a billion is really, really, really, really big:
Affluent Americans may want to double-check how much of their bank deposits are protected by government-backed insurance. The rules governing trust accounts just changed.
Former NBA guard Darius Morris has died at the age of 33. He played for five teams during his four NBA seasons. Morris played college basketball at Michigan.