Okay, Literally Every Single One Of These 19 Things I Just Found Out Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Week
1. Gorillas are built like TANKS compared to humans:
2. The McDonald's in Montrose, Colorado only has one arch:
3. This is what a piece of the moon and a piece of Mars looks like:
Read and see more here.
4.This is Ruth Malcolmson, the woman who won the 1924 Miss America pageant:
5. If you don't move your finger for a long time you, can lose the crease:
Starting to lose the first joint crease on my ring finger after being splinted for 7 weeks from mildlyinteresting
6. In Texas, you can get ammunition for the price of a gum ball:
7. Toilet paper from the early 20th century looked very, very uncomfortable:
It fact, it would often give your rear-end SPLINTERS.
8. Purple peppers proudly present periodically:
9. Medicine in the 1800s was absolutely wild:
Chloroform and cannabis. Mama mia!
10. Big lighters are just small lighters in disguise:
11. Some planes have put a no electronics sign in place of their no smoking signs:
12.Jupiter looks absolutely bonkers:
13. The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:
Some big ones in there.
14. Waterproof casts exist and look pretty sweet:
15. This is what Antarctica looks like from space:
Read more about how this image was made here.
16. Squash? Well, squash can be huge:
17. It was almost impossible NOT to look bad on a report card from the 1920s:
18. There's still a whole bunch of Y2K stickers floatin' around out there:
19. And, finally, sometimes rocks can look like a delicious potato:
Mmmmm...forbidden potato.