My Little Peanut-Sized Brain Is Completely And Totally Blown After Seeing These 23 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The First Time This Week
1.To scale, this is how big a strand of human hair is compared to an egg cell:
The egg cell, or ovum, is the largest cell humans have and over 10,000 times bigger than a sperm cell.
2.They sell red Solo cups as "American party cups" in New Zealand:
America's finest cultural export.
3.This is what some of the first New York City tour buses looked like in 1904:
No walls...no seatbelts...just vibes.
4.Champagne vending machines exist:
God is good, folks. God is good.
5.This just might set the world record for smallest hand-carved wooden spoon:
I love this little spoon.
6.Redwood trees are absolutely gigantic:
7.Here's another shot of a redwood tree absolutely towering over a car:
That's a big tree, folks!
8.This is the Queensland Stinger, one of the world's most dangerous plants:
Apparently, touching it feels like you're simultaneously "being burned by hot acid and electrocuted at the same time."
9.This is how big the Democratic Republic of the Congo is compared to the east coast of the United States:
Bigger or smaller than you expected?
10.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.
11.This is what the big ol' noggin of the Statue Of Liberty looks like from the torch:
How can I tell my barber I want my hair cut like Lady Liberty without telling them I want my hair cut like Lady Liberty?
12.This is the Thanksgiving menu that was served at the Plaza Hotel in 1899:
What are you going for? Might be partridge and orange jelly tarts for your boy.
13.This is what an elephant's tail looks like close up:
It's HAIRY!!! My goodness.
14.And this is what one of those tail hairs looks like up close:
It's thick, folks. IT'S THICK!
15.This is apparently a set of "instructions for new mothers" given to new moms in the 1940s:
NEVER UNWRAP YOUR BABY.
16.These are the shoes (well, shoe) Marie Antoinette wore to her execution during the French Revolution:
Leave a comment describing the kicks you're wearing to your untimely end.
17.Speaking of 18th and 19th century French history, Napoleon's hat recently sold at auction for 2.1 million dollars:
Leave a comment describing the hat you'd wear if you were exiled on an island off the coast of Tuscany.
18.Chickens can occasionally lay soft, smooshy eggs with no shell:
Smooshy is now a medical term, by the way.
19.Moths can be REALLY, REALLY big:
This is a giant wood moth and, you guessed it, it's found in Australia.
20.Here's a list of every named generation going back to the 1400s:
And I bet they all hated the one that came after them, as humans always do.
21.This is what a receipt for a Model T car looked like in 1919:
Would love to drive one of these straight to Warren G. Harding's house and whoop his rear-end for Teapot Dome.
22.This enormous disk is what 10 MB of data looked like in the 1960s:
Can't even fit three MP3s on that hunka junk.
23.And corn, my friends, corn can grow very strangely:
I just think it's neat! Let me enjoy the weird corn.
