My Little Miniature Peanut Brain Is Completely Blown After Seeing These 20 Absolutely Incredible Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week
1.This is what the inside of a quarter looks like:
Not sure what I expected, but definitely not that it'd look like a car cigarette lighter.
2.And this is what a hummingbird egg looks like compared to an ostrich egg:
I seriously doubt you can guess which is which.
3.This is what the face of the Statue of Liberty looked like before it was installed onto the monument:
Very Star Fox 64.
4.This is how big the anchor chain of the Titanic was:
That's a big chain!
5.This totally not terrifying ancient, 9,000-year-old mask is considered to be one of the earliest depictions of a human:
It was found near Jerusalem. Ah, the way we were!
6.This is how thick one of the cables that holds up the Golden Gate Bridge is:
Quite!
7.In 1903, Edward Llewellen (left) made history by breaking the world record and catching the biggest sea bass ever caught off the coast of Catalina Island:
It weighed 425 pounds.
8.Speaking of big giant animals, here's Hiram (center), the world's largest horse as of 1907:
Folks, do we stan Hiram, aka the largest horse in the world?
9.Redwood trees are really, really, really, really big:
Shout out to big trees.
10.This is Henry Ford cruising around in the first car he designed, the Quadricycle:
Looks like this baby can go zero to six in no time at all.
11.You can see Queen Elizabeth get older and older through coins bearing her likeness:
12.Speaking of which, here are two new coins that feature the just-coronated King Charles:
His coins will go from very old to very, very old.
13.This is Wojtek, a bear who was enlisted as a private in the Polish army during World War II:
Wojtek was found as a cub in Iran and became a sort of mascot for the soldiers he traveled with. He was eventually promoted to the rank of corporal because of his hard work "carrying ammo crates and used shells from the front lines back to the supply area" during the Battle of Monte Cassino. Wojtek passed away years after the war, in 1963, at the ripe old age of 21.
14.The Liberty Bell is super tiny in real life:
We need a 45-foot Liberty Bell that shoots roman candles and plays Katy Perry's "Roar" on a constant 24-hour loop.
15.Here are two men testing a bulletproof vest in the absolute safest way possible:
Ah, the good old days when the life expectancy rate was, like, 34 because of this kind of stuff.
16.This is the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki compared to a human:
This is a replica inside the Atomic Bomb Museum located in Nagasaki.
17.Helmets really, really work:
The person wearing this survived.
18.Here's Hannes de Jong, the 1970 Pole Sitting World Champion, well, sitting on a pole:
Yes, the World Pole Sitting Championship was a real thing. In fact, the 1972 winner sat on a pole for 92 hours straight.
19.This is what the first class bathroom on board a high-speed Japanese bullet train looks like:
Wow. Imagine pooping at 200mph. The dream.
20.And, finally, this right here is a once state-of-the-art piece of armor that used to be worn by golf course workers sent out to retrieve range balls:
Imagine that little tiny cage is all that separates you and getting clocked upside the noggin with a shot from someone's 2-iron.
