My Dumb Little Brain Is Totally Blown After Seeing These 20 Incredibly Fascinating Pictures For The First Time Last Week
1.Emu eggs look like something straight out of Game of Thrones:
2.This is what Abraham Lincoln looked like when he became president in 1861...
...and this is what he looked like four short years later, in 1865:
He quite literally had seen some things.
3.This is Pauline Musters, the shortest woman ever to live:
She was 24 inches tall when she died at the age of 19.
4.In 1933, A.L. Kahn caught a 5,000-pound manta ray off the coast of Florida:
And then he brought it to New Jersey.
5.Hotels used to have to put up signs explaining that electricity is safe and not to be feared:
"The use of electricity for lightning is in no way harmful to health, nor does it affect the soundness of sleep."
6.In 1955 it cost $4.75 to go on 10 rides at Disneyland:
That's a little over $50 today.
7.In the 1930s, this couple won an Atlantic City dance marathon after dancing for 1,473 hours:
Mamma mia!
8.And, yes, people did fall asleep standing up while dancing at these marathons:
9.Someone had to hand-carve all of the presidents' eyes on Mount Rushmore:
Looks chill!
10.This extremely complicated thing is what the steering wheel of a Formula 1 race car looks like:
11.This is the message then-president Jimmy Carter sent aboard the Voyager spacecraft to any aliens the ship might encounter:
12.California once had a place called the California Alligator Farm where children were encouraged to get up close and personal with alligators and even take them for rides:
13.This terrifying picture is a close-up of a man with Bruce, the mechanical shark created for the movie Jaws:
14.This is what a toucan's skeleton looks like:
Not sure what I was expecting.
15.This is a real 19th-century advertisement for cough medicine with a very special ingredient — heroin:
16.In Las Vegas in 1955, you could purchase a hotel plot for $3 million:
Deal of a lifetime!
17.In 1926, two students were able to fully dissect an entire intact nervous system from a human body:
It took over 1,500 hours. It's now on display at the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine.
18.In 1876, Virgil A. Gates patented the "Moustache Guard," an absolutely brilliant invention for "holding the moustache out of the way of food or liquid while eating or drinking":
A true visionary.
19.This is what a 100-year-old marriage certificate looks like:
20.And, finally, most importantly, bananas float in rum but sink in cognac:
Essential knowledge.
