My Tiny Little Brain Is Completely Blown After Seeing These 23 Incredibly Interesting Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week
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1.The United States once had a $10,000 bill, the largest denomination of US currency ever produced for public use:
It had Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase on it. We all know who that is, right?
2.This is what Bob Ross looked like before he had his iconic hairdo:
And here's what Bob looked like as a young kid, just for good measure:
Ain't that nice.
3.This is a picture of the ice mountains of Pluto as seen from the New Horizons space probe:
The photo is 230 miles across, to put things into perspective.
4.Also, while we're at it, this is how big Pluto (above its moon Charon) is compared with North America:
5.These bad boys are the oldest pair of pants ever discovered, dating back to over 3,000 years ago:
They were found in western China, and you know what? They look pretty cool to me.
6.A school bus looks like a tiny little baby next to a haul truck:
7.Here's a haul truck next to two normal-size humans:
8.There's a beer bottle 35,000 feet down into the deepest point of Earth, the Challenger Deep:
9.You're probably familiar with the front of King Tut's iconic death mask:
10.Well, this is what the back looks like:
11.You're probably familiar with a blob fish, that lovable, kinda human-looking fish with the super-weird face:
12.Well, this is what a blob fish looks like in its natural environment, before it's been subjected to immense changes in pressure:
My man.
And, again, we all know Mount Rushmore:
13.But have you seen the back? This is what Mount Rushmore looks like from behind:
14.This isn't a distant sun or a faraway galaxy — it's a photo of a single atom's incredibly tiny shadow:
15.Changing gears to something of totally equal importance, you can spell "BILLIE EILISH" on a calculator:
This is GROUND-BREAKING.
16.This is what Buenos Aires looked like after Argentina won the 2022 World Cup:
Eat your heart out, New Year's Rockin' Eve.
17.Prescription cocaine is still used today in hospitals as a local anesthetic:
18.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:
And probably a whole lot of pigeon experience.
19.Tourists used to be able to freely climb up the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt to sunbathe and have tea parties:
Fortunately, that is not the case anymore.
20.Really tiny single-person benches exist:
And, no, IT'S NOT A CHAIR.
21.This is what the inside of the White House looked like when it was being reconstructed in the late 1940s:
22.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:
Tell me, folks. Do we stan Big Daddy? Please advise.
23.And finally, a billion is really, really, really, really big:
