These 65 Absolutely Mind-Blowing Photos Just Completely And Totally Shattered My Entire View Of The World Last Month

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1.This, snapped the day before his death, is one of the last pictures ever taken of Pope Francis:
2.And here's what Pope Francis looked like as a young man:
Popes: they were once young! Who'da thunk it.
3.This is what Niagara falls looks like from way, way above:
Would ya look at that.
4.This, my friends, is what a pregnant horse looks like:
I am still searching for what a horse baby shower looks like. I imagine it's delightful.
5.This is what a human skeleton looks like next to a gorilla's skeleton:
Feel free to pull this image up in your next "Yo Mama" debate on the playground.
6.This is Fernand Meyssonnier, France's last executioner, standing next to one of the guillotines he used on the job:
Someone was executed by guillotine as recently as 1977 in France. The death penalty has since been abolished.
7.And here's a mask an executioner would typically wear:
Not creepy at all.
8.This is what the USS Midway looks like compared to a person in a kayak:
This makes me feel very relaxed. Just kidding.
9.This is what the bottom of the deepest trench on Earth, the Mariana Trench, looks like:
Imagine being the guy responsible for the trash at the literal deepest part of the ocean.
10.In the mid-80s, the Statue of Liberty was completely covered in scafolding while being renovated:
A pigeon's dream come true.
11.Over 2.5 MILLION people attended Lady Gaga's show in Brazil last month. Here's what millions of people in one place looks like:
I have to pee just thinking about it.
Here's another angle:
Again, my bladder hurts.
12.This comparison of the graphics of Grand Theft Auto V and the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI has been making the rounds. The jump in graphical fidelity is incredible:
What a different 13 years makes.
13.This is what an x-ray of a baby's hand looks like:
A comforting thought.
14.In 1731, King Frederick I of Sweden was gifted with a lion that, after its death, he sent to be stuffed and preserved. The only issue was that the people doing the taxidermy had never actually seen a lion. This, the Lion of Gripsholm Castle, is the finished product:
Juuuuuust a bit off.
15.Speaking of terrible taxidermy and fossil reconstruction, this is the Magdeburg Unicorn, quite possibly the worst fossil reconstruction ever:
It was probably done by Otto von Guericke, who thought he had found the remains of a unicorn. Turns out he'd just mixed and matched the bones of a rhinoceros, a mammoth, and a narwhal.
16.This is Steven Spielberg on top of Bruce, the animatronic shark that, well, played Jaws in Jaws:
And now I'm realizing why the shark in Finding Nemo was named what it was.
Here's a look at the full Jaws fake-shark rig:
17.In 2001, there was a huge dust storm on Mars that obscured the whole planet from the outside:
Imagine leaving your windows open on Mars that day.
18.This is what a lizard getting a CT scan looks like:
Stay strong, l'il fellah.
19.The is the one-time record holder for world's heaviest hamburger:
Are the tomatoes really necessary? They're not even that heavy.
20.Deep scars don't sweat, so dirt doesn't stick to them:
That's one way to stay clean.
21.Quarters... quarters can be very, very tiny:
They were made by the Franklin Mint in the 1980s.
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22.This is what a World War II combat helmet looks like compared to a World War I combat helmet:
Here's the other side of the helmets:
I'm taking the World War II helmet for anything combat-related and the World War I helmet for anything heaping-bowl-of-soup-related.
23.This is what the first iPhone's camera looks like compared to a recent iPhone's camera:
What is this... a camera for ants?
24.This is what a nuclear warhead looks like:
Looks like the next water bottle TikTok is going to convince half the world to buy.
25.In 1924, a game of Human Chess was played in the Soviet Union:
You know, if you weren't able to watch Babe Ruth hit 46 homeruns back then, you had to find some other way to entertain yourself.
26.This is what a four person see-saw looks like:
That's a little busy.
27.Some libraries let you know just how much money you save by going to them:
Let's hear it for 'braries, folks.
28.This is what a golf course green that's been struck by lightning looks like:
Or when my approach shot from 65 yards at hits the screen and bounces directly into the woods behind it.
29.This is what a Coke bottle from 48 years ago looked like:
It was intentionally a throwback design for Coke's anniversary.
30.The original Pledge of Allegiance didn't include "under God":
This was changed by Dwight Eisenhower during the Cold War, for, of course, Cold War reasons.
31.The year 2025 is the first year that's a square number since 1936:
And you will almost certainly be long dead before the next one. Have a nice day!
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32.This is "Boy Samson," the 14-year-old "strongest boy in the world" holding up a grown man on a motorcycle circa 1932:
Today, that very same boy might have a Podcast. The mind reels.
33.This is how much it cost to buy a whole bunch of groceries in 1988, almost 40 years ago:
Today that'll get you about two and half bell peppers.
34.This is what the first class menu looked like on the Titanic the day the ship sunk:
No chicken tenders? No thanks.
35.And this is what the Second Class menu looked like that same day:
Some similarities to the first class menu, but overall very, very different.
36.And, for good measure, this is what the third class menu looked like that day so many of them tragically died:
Literally getting served "GRUEL."
37.This is what the World Trade Center looked like at the very beginning of its construction:
Construction began in 1966 and was finished in 1971.
38.This is what a fusion reactor looks like compared to a person:
This particular reactor is located in China and set a record "160 million degrees celsius for 20 seconds."
39.This is Igor Sikorsky, inventor of the world's first "practical" helicopter, getting ready to take off in his contraption:
This was in 1939.
And here he is in the air:
My guy Igor CHILLIN' up there.
40.Some playgrounds have special "wheelchair only" swings:
Love it!
41.This is Norwegian speed skater Oscar Mathisen pictured with his many, many, many, many awards and honors throughout the early 1900s:
He set numerous world records, some even apparently lasting until the 21st century.
42.This is what a pair of maraschino cherries put through a dishwasher looks like:
Now you have officially seen everything.
43.Here's a scientist testing out a hands-free shaving machine that used robotic arms:
Okay, it was actually meant to be used with radioactive material, but shaving is a cool second use-case.
44.Strawberries, my boy... strawberries can be very, very big:
Nature is beautiful.
45.And dogs? Dogs can be gigantic:
Who's a good... man?
46.And frogs, my boy... frogs can be very, very tiny:
Now you know. Use this knowledge wisely.
47.This is a group of World War I soldiers creating a "Human Liberty Bell" at Camp Dix in 1918:
This is what people did before iPhones.
48.This is 17-year-old Bryn Owen and his, frankly, ludicrous amount of mirrors on his Vespa:
Every single source I've seen containing this picture points out that he used his own "pocket money." Now you know.
49.Here's a scene from the 1924 Olympics gold medal hockey game between the USA and Canada:
Canada won 6-1.
50.This is what Meryal Waterpark, home of the world's tallest waterslide, looking like while it was under construction in Qatar:
I can feel the wedgies just looking at this picture.
51.This is what Earth looks like from 3.7 billion miles away:
To paraphrase the big man Carl Sagan, everyone and everything you have ever known exists on that little speck.
52.This is what the grave of HR Giger, creator of the design of the alien from Alien, looks like:
Commitment to the very end.
53.Speaking of which, the new Pope Leo went to a World Series game in 2005 and was caught on TV:
Slacking off there, Leo. Should've been Pope-ing.
54.This is what caffeine looks like under a microscope:
Looks about right.
55.This is Henry Behrens, at one time the world's smallest man, doing a little tango with a cat:
He stood 30 inches tall, and, we can safely assume, was one heck of a dancer.
56.This is planet J1407b, a, I quote, "Super-saturn" with "over 30 rings, each stretching over tens of millions of kilometers in diameter:"
It's hundreds of times bigger than the Saturn we all know and love.
57.This is what the remains of a World War I trench looks like today:
These trenches date back to the Battle of the Somme and are located in Newfoundland Memorial Park near Albert, France.
58.This picture, from the early 1900s, shows an early basketball game, kneepads and all:
Josh Hart would make that man CRY.
59.Here's another photo of a vintage basketball player, standing in front of a piano and striking fear into the hearts of his opponents:
I think Jalen Brunson could put up 176 on this dude.
60.This is what Stephen Hawking's grave looks like:
It reads "Here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking."
61.This isn't a fake picture of your worst "driving nightmare." It's the Hisashimichi Interchange, located near Tokyo, perhaps one of the most complicated roads in the world:
I'll walk, thanks.
62.This is what the nerve inside a tooth looks like:
(Cartoon cat slamming his finger inside a door voice) YEEEEE-OUCH!
63.This is what the knots on the outside of a tree look like on the inside:
Neat!
64.Cough medicine used to be very, very, very strong:
Add some melatonin to that baby and you might never wake up.
65.Finally, there's a copperhead snake in this picture. Can you find it?
Well, can you?
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