Everything I Thought I Knew About The World Went Out The Window After Seeing These Incredibly Fascinating Pictures For The First Time This Week
1.This is a picture of Earth from ONE HOUR ago:
Do you see yourself?
2.This is what the eye of a hurricane looks like from above:
Specifically, Hurricane Beryl from 2024.
3.This is investor Walter Thornton trying to sell his car for $100 directly after the United States' stock market crash in 1929:
Thornton actually ran a successful modeling agency after all this.
4.This is what North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal, home to one of the world's last uncontacted peoples, looks like from above:
That means the people who live there have little to no contact with the rest of the world. A YouTuber was just arrested for attempting to give the inhabitants a can of Coke.
5.This is what old growth lumber looks like compared to factory farmed lumber:
Before you start chopping down some old trees, there's not really any difference in function.
6.Here's the difference in forearm development between a professional tennis player's racket hand and their non-dominant hand:
No jokes in the comments, please.
7.This is what the "American section" in a Belgian grocery store looks like:
I gotta be honest... that's a swing and a miss.
8.Speaking of which, in Finland, the largest container of mayonnaise is labeled "American size":
USA! USA! USA!
9.This is what an x-ray of a pregnant dog looks like:
Say it with me: "AHHHHHHHHH!"
10.In 1936, architect André Basdevant proposed making the Eiffel Tower accessible by car. It would look like this:
Imagine taking a Dodge RAM up there and just lettin' her rip. Bliss:
11.This is how big the tire on a 994 loader construction vehicle is:
PRETTY BIG!
12.This is what a lion's fang looks like compared to a cat's fang:
Can you tell which is which?
13.Temporary tattoos leave a hell of a tan line:
14.This is Martin Laurello, AKA "The Human Owl," a sideshow performer from the early 1900s who could turn his head almost completely around:
15.Here's what a wolf spider looks like HEAD ON:
That's a lot of googly eyes!
16.Speaking of creepy eyes, some scallops have a ton of tiny little blue eyes:
I had to learn it and now you have to too.
17.You can see volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's moon Io from space:
Some are large enough to be seen from Earth, too.
18.Speaking of IO, here's a picture of one of the moon's most unique mountains, named "Steeple Mountain:"
It's about four miles high.
19.This is a shot of planet Xeblar-149 — just kidding. It's a close-up of a blueberry under an electron microscope:
Yum!
20.This wild-looking thing is a balloon apron from World War I, a giant net suspended from balloons that was used to help protect England from aerial attacks:
They were surprisingly effective.
21.This is what the inside of an early passenger airline looked like:
Imagine hitting turbulence and getting squished against the lady next to you on those big bus seats.
22.This set of Roman dice, dating from the first to third century AD, has dots identical to those we use today:
23.Here's what a treadmill looked like in the 1920s:
Looks like you could take that thing OFF ROAD.
24.You can buy three pound BUCKETS of nutella at Costco:
This would kill a small Victorian child.
25.Here's a wall full of graffiti from teenagers in the 1940s:
QUIZ: Are you more Dottie K, Moe, or Angie M?
26.And, finally, check out this bike rack outside a dentist's office:
Neato!

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