My Dumb Little Pea Brain Is Completely Blown After Seeing These 21 Incredibly Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time This Week
1.This is what a human skeleton looks like compared with a gorilla skeleton:
The gorilla skeleton would make a fantastic offensive lineman, I think.
2.This is what a store-bought egg looks like compared with an egg bought at a farmers market:
I want that egg. I need that egg.
3.This is what a husky looks like compared with a wolf:
Wolves: They're big.
4.This is the top hat Abraham Lincoln wore the night he was assassinated:
Wild.
5.The small island in the middle of this picture is where Princess Diana is buried:
She was buried there so the water could "act as a buffer against the interventions of the insane and ghoulish" and any other curious people.
6.The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:
Shout out to "dewberry."
7.This is what a "fresh cup" of banana juice looks like:
I will never be the same after seeing this.
8.This is the size of a flag flown on a Spanish ship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1905:
Absolutely massive!
9.This is what a newborn baby hippo looks like:
This lil' fella here is only a few weeks old.
10.America is still very, very young:
Jeez.
11.This is the heaviest building in the world, the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania:
It weighs over 9 billion pounds.
12.Elephants have "humanlike" breasts:
I know this and now you do too.
13.In the mid-1800s, any of these things could get you admitted to a "lunatic asylum":
They were seen as reasons a person became afflicted with whatever ailed them.
14.This is what a real, authentic plague mask from the 1500s looked like:
Not terrifying at all.
15.Social Security cards used to not be a flimsy little piece of paper:
16.This is what a pistachio looks like before it's harvested and becomes the delicious nut we know and love:
17.Hospitals have machines that allow doctors and nurses to see exactly where your veins are:
18.Woolly mammoth tusks are absolutely enormous:
These were found in Michigan, of all places.
19.Cooling towers have an open bottom:
20.The Mars Curiosity rover is drilling a ton of holes on Mars. Here's what 36 of them look like:
I just think it's neat!
21.And finally, this is what a mass of DNA looks like:
No jokes in the comments about masses of DNA, folks. Please no.
