11-03-2025
I've Searched High And Far For The Most Fascinating Pictures On The Internet, And These Are The 27 Best I Found Last Week
This is what Netflix's homepage looked like in 1999, one year after it launched:
What do you say we get the popcorn going, pour a little wine, and wait 3-5 business days for Patch Adams to arrive.
Plastic surgery has been around for a long time—here are some examples from the 1920s:
Great Cyrano de Bergerac reference there, 1920s plastic surgeon.
Here's another example of a facelift from the 1920s:
This is what the Korean penisula — North Korea on top, South Korea on bottom – looks like from space:
That arrow is pointing to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.
This is what a young Joseph Stalin looked like:
His friends called him Joe. Not actually sure of that. Probably not true.
Some chickens lay eggs with white yolks:
It just doesn't seem right.
Elephant seals are absolutely gigantic:
And I love them.
Speaking of big giant animals, here's Hiram (center), the world's largest horse as of 1907:
Folks, do we stan Hiram, aka the largest horse in the world?
This is what a kidney stone looks like under an electron microscope:
(Cartoon cat getting its finger stuck in a mousetrap voice) YEEEEEEEOOOOOWWWWCH!
This is what the United Kingdom looked like from space during the winter of 2010:
Likes like one of those Games of Thrones.
This is a rubber beauty mask designed to eliminate wrinkles, massage the face, and promote skin health from the 1920s:
It's definitely not a parasitic, terrifying alien life form.
Here's another terrifying rubber beauty mask designed to eliminate wrinkles from the 1920s:
AHHHHHH!
There is a set of intact, neatly stacked plates inside the wreckage of the Titanic:
This is after sinking over 12,000 feet to the bottom of the ocean.
Some Australian beaches have "emergency vinegar" to treat jellyfish stings:
You get some emergency olive oil and we got ourselves an Italian feast.
This is a picture of the spectators, including alleged mobsters, covering their faces with hats to avoid recognition during Al Capone's trial in October 1931:
Poor form by the guy in the front row to the right. You hate to see it.
Smoking does a doozy to your walls:
Not great... unless you're a big fan of beige.
This is what Stonehenge looks like from the road leading to it:
Neat!
This is what an indented penny looks like:
Feels like Abe is in the room with us!
This is what the inside of a bowling ball looks like:
Nature is beautiful.
Some Canadian coffee shops are renaming Americanos to "Canadianos" in response to, you know, everything happening everywhere right now:
They should rename it "Dave's Drink" after me, Dave.
Sugargliders have tiny little sugarglider fingerprints:
Just in case a sugarglider tries to frame you for something.
This is the exact gun John Wilkes Booth used to kill Abraham Lincoln:
RIP Abe.
This is what a French beach looked like in 1925:
Imagine getting home from the beach and finding sand in your dang suit lapels. What a time.
This is what a frozen cobweb looks like:
Garlic cloves... well, they can be huge:
Incredible stuff.
This monument marks the location of the first ever nuclear bomb explosion:
No, you will not get superpowers from touching the stone.
And, finally, this is what happens to your knee replacement if you're cremated:
A comforting thought. Have a nice day!
