I Just Spent Literally An Entire Month Looking For The Most Fascinating Pictures On The Internet, And These Are The 60 Best I Found

1.This is a model of a Gigantopithecus, the largest ape to ever live:

It weighed over 1,000 pounds and stood 10 feet high.

And while we're talking apes, this is what a chimpanzee's hand looks like up close:

A chimp hand

2.This is what New York City's Central Park looked like during the Great Depression:

A dirt- and rock-covered area with some small, hut-type houses on it

This picture, captured in 1933, showcases a range of "Hoovervilles," makeshift settlements created by the unemployed and named after President Herbert Hoover.

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3.This is what the McDonald's menu looked like in the 1960s:

"McDonald's Amazing Menu": "pure beef hamburger, tempting cheeseburger, triple-thick shakes, golden french fries, thirst-quenching Coke, delightful root beer, steaming hot coffee, full-flavor orange drink, and refreshing cold milk"

4.This painting, "First Communion," was made by Pablo Picasso when he was only 15 years old:

"First Communion" painting

Looks like a real chill time.

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5.This is what a 3-year-old Albert Einstein looked like:

A serious-looking child with ankle boots, a dress suit, and tie leans on a chair

I hate to break it to you, but chances are that 3-year-old was smarter then than you are today.

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6.Playgrounds were extremely dangerous in the early 1900s:

Boys and men climbing ladders to poles in a playground

And EXTREMELY fun! You know, once you get over your fear of heights.

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7.This is how many wildfires there are burning in the United States and Canada right now:

Specifically, fires larger than 1,000 acres. You can go deeper and get more info on this map here.

8.This is what a solar eclipse looks like from space:

A solar eclipse from space

Like a pen blew up all over Earth.

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9.This is the last picture ever taken of President Ulysses S. Grant, snapped days before his death at his home:

Ulysses S. Grant on his porch

Shoutout Ulysses.

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10.The Titanic had a gym on board. This is what it looked like:

A room with wood paneling, some stationary bikes and what looks like a rowing machine
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And this is what one of the exercise bikes inside the Titanic gym looked like:

A woman wearing a long dress, coat, and ornate hat sits on an exercise bike next to a man also on a bike and looks at the camera

We should bring back exercising in 1912 garb.

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11.This is Wendy Thomas, the daughter of Wendy's founder Dave Thomas and the namesake of the restaurant:

A smiling young girl in pigtails, bangs, and a striped blouse

Look familiar?

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12.Held in 1903, this is what the first ever Tour de France looked like:

The first Tour de France

Bring back the suits, I say.

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13.This is what's underneath a fire hydrant:

A huge hole in the ground showing a long pipe extending through the ground from the hydrant

14.This is Conrad Veidt, the man whose performance in the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs inspired the look of the iconic villain the Joker:

A man with a huge grin, shiny lipstick, gleaming teeth, and slicked-back hair

Yeah...I can see it.

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15.This is the Pesse canoe, the oldest boat on Earth:

A weathered, long piece of wood

16.In 1990, the very first McDonald's opened up in the Soviet Union. This is how gigantic the line was:

A very long, winding line extending into a bigger crowd surrounds a McDonald's
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Following the invasion of Ukraine, McDonald's sold its entire Russian operation to a Russian businessperson, resulting in over 800 restaurants being rebranded as "Delicious. Full Stop":

The same store without the McDonald's logo and far fewer people outside

Here's a comparison between the two restaurants, 32 years apart.

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17.This is what the passenger cabin on a Pan Am flight in the 1940s looked like:

Women wearing dresses and hats in rows with single seats

Honestly, it looks way, way better than what we have today.

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18.Some of the Titanic's deck chairs were salvaged from the wreck. Here's what one of them looks like:

A wooden deck chair with slats

19.In 1908, huge crowds gathered in Boston to watch Harry Houdini jump off a bridge while tied up in chains:

Harry in a short bodysuit and a thick chain around his chest, with his arms behind his back, standing by a body of water

A little underdressed there, Harry.

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20.This is what Times Square looked like in 1921:

Times Square in 1921

We need more razor blades keen to shave me.

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21.This is Baldwin Street, the steepest street in the world:

Baldwin Street

It's located in New Zealand, and, boy, is it ever steep.

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22.In the 1930s, this face cone was proposed as a protective shield against rain and snow:

People wearing large face cones

It did not catch on, unfortunately.

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23.Speaking of other things that didn't catch on, this was a proposed firefighting suit designed to drench the wearer in water:

A water-filled firefighter suit

Would love to take this for a spin at Waterslide World.

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24.This is what Antarctica looks like from space:

An icy surface in what almost looks like a snow globe

25.This is what the world's first domestic vacuum cleaner looked like in 1906:

A woman in a long dress and apron vacuuming with a long attachment connected to what looks like a small steam engine

It looks like you'd need railroad tracks to move that thing.

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26.The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:

"Words recently introduced" include aeroplane, automobile, aviation, futurist, eugenics, electron, chauffeur, linotype, housewifery, taxicab, suffragist (a supporter of women suffrage) and suffragette (a supporter of the more extreme woman-suffrage party)

27.This is how big Earth is compared to Saturn:

Earth compared to Saturn

Earth is PUNY.

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28.This is the Ain Sakhri figurine, an 11,000-year-old sculpture that is the world's oldest depiction of sex:

A sculpture with two raised mounds on top and the outline of legs wrapped around another torso on the bottom

Sorry to get things steamy in here.

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29.This is what the inside of an elephant's foot looks like...

An elephant foot

And this is what the inside of a human foot looks like:

X-ray of a human foot

Elephants... they're just like us.

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30.This is Emma Lilian Todd, the first woman to design an airplane:

Emma Lilian Todd

That is some contraption.

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31.This is what a French beach looked like in 1925:

A French beach

Imagine getting home from the beach and finding sand in your dang suit lapels. What a time.

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32.This is what the capstone on the top of an ancient Egyptian pyramid looked like:

A capstone with a few cracks, hieroglyphics, and some chunks of material missing

This would, of course, go on top of a pyramid.

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That capstone in particular belonged to the ruined black pyramid of Amenemhat III. Here's what the pyramid looks like today:

The pyramid looks like a mountain with its softened top

Folks, do we stan Amenemhat III, the greatest pharoah of Egypt's Middle Kingdom?

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33.Emu eggs look like something out of Game of Thrones:

A huge blue speckled egg held in a hand

34.In 1918, a suffragette offered the following advice “to young ladies” on marriage:

Tip #1 is not to marry at all, but #2 if you must, avoid the "beauty men," flirts, tailor's dummies, and football enthusiasts and #3 look for a strong, tame men; also, #4 don't expect too much because most men are "lazy, selfish, drunken, unmanly brutes"

35.This is a picture of the first-ever international tennis match at Wimbledon in 1883:

A sparsely attended match on a small court on grass; the men are in long pants

36.The world's oldest diving suit is absolutely terrifying:

It looks like a mummified spacesuit with three large holes for the eyes and nose/mouth

37.This is Venus the bulldog, the official mascot of the HMS Vansittart, a World War II destroyer in the Royal Navy:

A bulldog leaning out of a ship porthole and wearing an HMS hat

Folks, do we stan Venus the bulldog?

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38.This is what an X-ray of a pregnant dog looks like:

A mass of dog skeletons visible in the dog's torso

A comforting thought.

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39.This is what the inside of a bungee cord looks like:

Many tiny cords tied together

40.This is the USS Langley, the first United States aircraft carrier:

USS Langley

41.This is a billboard that was posted outside of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a town established as a manufacturing site as part of the Manhattan Project:

A billboard with an Uncle Sam–type figure above three monkeys (each covering their eyes, ears, or mouth) with the words, "What you see here what you do here what you hear here when you leave here let it stay here"

Very intense, minus the monkeys.

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42.This is a picture of the opening of the very first New York City subway back in 1904:

Men in top hats sitting in an open carriage and standing on the tracks and the platform

Would love to party with these guys.

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43.The tiny island of Zavikon is home to the world's shortest international bridge, spanning from the owner's house, located in Canada, to their backyard, located in New York:

Two small islands, one with a house on it, connected by a bridge

Man, and I don't even have a backyard.

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44.This is what it looked like in 1937 on the first day cars were allowed on the Golden Gate Bridge:

Six lanes packed with very old cars, most of them black, on the bridge

Looks like a fun and relaxing time.

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45.This is Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls while inside a barrel:

A woman in a high-necked, long dress with long sleeves and ornate hat standing next to a "Queen of the Mist" barrel

46.There used to be cocaine in toothache drops:

An ad with illustrations of two children playing that says, "Cocaine toothache drops / Instantaneous Cure! / Price 15 cents / Prepared by the Lloyd Manufacturing Co 219 Hudson Ave, Albany NY / For sale by all Druggists"

And judging by the ad, it was given to children. Okay, then!

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47.This picture, taken in 1882, shows the Statue of Liberty in the early stages of its construction in France:

Men standing around the interior of an edifice with lots of debris around and the statue's arm visible on one side

Neat!

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48.This is William Hutchings, one of the last surviving American Revolutionary War veterans:

He's 100 in the portrait and looks very old, with some white, longish hair and wearing a suit, vest, and bow tie, with caption "William Hutchings, aged 100, one of the survivors of the revolution; entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864"

He was 100 in this picture. Shoutout Bill.

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49.This is John Smith, a Chippewa man who was reported to be 137 years old at the time of his death:

Close-up of a man with a full head of white hair and deeply creviced skin

There's controversy about whether that's actually true, of course, but I choose to believe in my man John.

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50.Koalas have fingerprints that are extremely similar to human fingerprints:

The padding underside of a koala's paw, with long fingernails

51.This is what the Taco Bell menu looked like in 1973:

Taco, Tostada, Enchirito, Burrito, and soft drink signs inside the store

Coffee and an Enchirito, anyone?

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52.This silicon sphere is the roundest object in the world:

A hand holding a reflective sphere

53.This is the scene inside a Chicago bar on Dec. 5, 1933, the day Prohibition was repealed:

Smiling bartender with arms raised and a packed bar with smiling men, most holding beer bottles

Shoutout to beer.

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54.This is what a turtle's skeleton looks like:

The skeleton, including the tail, extending into the shell on top of it

55.This is what a college dorm room looked like in the 1890s:

A fireplace, a wood chair and rocking chair, a small table and small bookcase, and small grandfather clock

Like something out of Harold Potter.

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And here are two roommates palling around in a dorm room circa 1910:

Two men dressed in suit, vest, and tie sitting together, one with his arm around the other's shoulder and the other with his arm resting on his friend's knee, on a small twin bed,

The booooooys.

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56.This is how big a human hand is compared with a polar bear's footprint:

A man's hand on top of the impression of a much larger bear footprint

Personally, I'm going to try to avoid polar bears from here on out.

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57.This is what the Panama Canal looked like while it was under construction:

A solitary man standing in a cavernous empty space surrounded by very high walls with scaffolding and a bridge on top

Absolutely enormous.

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58.This is what a mobile home looked like in the 1930s:

A covered wagon–type trailer car with a small ladder on the side

Well, one mobile home. Looks like the opposite of comfy.

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59.This is how many barrels of wine the French army supplied for its troops for the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I:

Hundreds of barrels on unpaved, grassless ground in a barren, open space with small, cone-shaped edifices nearby

And they would need it.

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60.And, finally, this is what a 4,000-pound block of beautiful, delicious cheddar cheese looks like:

4,000-pound block of cheddar