My Jaw Is Actually Still Completely Through The Floor After Seeing All These Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week
1.These are the contestants for the 1924 Miss America pageant:
Looks like they raided the backstage at my high school drama club.
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2.This is the 1:24 scale model of Hogwarts that was used in every Harry Potter film:
Would love to go Gozilla-mode on that.
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3.This is how big a hummingbird feather is compared to a quarter:
4.Before their destruction by the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan was home to two enormous Buddha statues, one towering at an impressive 175 feet:
They were built over 1500 years ago.
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5.Here’s what that same area looks like today:
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6.This is allegedly what Frank Sintra requested in his dressing room before a show:
7.The original Mr. Potato Head used an ACTUAL potato:
And if you look closely, you’ll see it also had DLC in the form of orange, beet, apple, and pepper.
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8.This is how big the Moon is compared to Australia:
Where would you rather move: the Moon or Australia?
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9.The Air Force Academy has stealth bomber shaped tortilla chips for their nachos:
10.Some medieval helmets had mustaches:
History is incredible, isn’t it?
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11.This is a lava skylight, a hole above flowing lava that let’s you gaze in and see all that red, flowy goodness:
Hell, it looks like a portal to Heck.
12.This is what the Hindenburg looked like while it was under construction:
It was absolutely enormous.
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13.And this is what the dining hall looked like on board the finished zeppelin:
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14.This is the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle. It was torn down around 2019 and replaced by…
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15.A wonderful new waterfront area:
16.This is what a used hypodermic needle looks like under an electron microscope:
Note the individual red blood cells.
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17.Grapes… grapes can be huge:
Imagine chompin’ into that sucker. It would be amazing.
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18.Penguins… HAVE KNEES!
19.This is what a 40 pound rubber band ball looks like:
Imagine slam dunking that thing.
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20.This is an Ancient Roman pipe leading to a hot springs. It’s still functional today:
And full of delicious lead.
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21.This beautiful little fella is the Sphaerocoris annulus, also known as the “Picasso bug:”
It’s found in several places in Africa. Folks, do we stan this beautiful beetle?
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22.Here’s a group of service dogs being “tested” on their ability to sit through an entire musical:
23.This is what a stingray’s tail looks like after an attack:
24.Over 80,000 people attended the 1921 heavyweight championship boxing match between Georges Carpentier and Jack Dempsey:
It was held at a place called Boyle’s Thirty Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey. Dempsey won.
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25.And, finally, here are a whole bunch of knock-off Egyptian candies:
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