19-02-2025
My Entire Body And Mind Are Still In Complete Shock After Seeing These 25 Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week
1. This is Jeanne Calment, the longest-lived person ever verified. Here she is at the tender age of 120 years and 239 days:
2. In Finland's Riisitunturi National Park, the extreme cold transforms trees into stunning, snow-covered sculptures, creating a surreal winter landscape:
3. These are apparently the requirements for being a flight attendant for one airline in 1954:
That's gonna get a yikes from me.
4. You're probably familiar with the most terrifying looking fish in the ocean, the anglerfish...
5. Well, this is how big the males of the species actually are:
Finding Nemo lied to us! Or, actually, it told the truth.
6. This is how big the anchor chains of a ship are:
7. Recently, a Russian drone attacked a gigantic radiation confinement tower at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, inflicting damage that required some repairs:
8. Here's a closer look at the people fixing the damage, to give you a better scale of the whole thing:
9. Speaking Chernobyl, this is the famous Azure Swimming Pool before the nuclear disaster...
10. And the same swimming pool today:
11. If you shine a black light on an Illinois driver's license, Abe Lincoln will be wearing a hat:
If you shine a light on an Ohio license, William Howard Taft should get stuck in a bathtub.
12. This is what a deviled ostrich egg looks like:
13. 35 years ago, on February 14, 1990, the iconic 'Pale Blue Dot' photo was captured, showing Earth as a tiny speck from 3.7 billion miles away:
14. In 1990, the very first McDonald's opened up in the Soviet Union. This is how gigantic the line was:
15. Following the invasion of Ukraine, McDonald's sold its entire Russian operation to a Russian businessperson, resulting in over 800 restaurants being rebranded as "Delicious. Full Stop":
16. This is what the INSIDE of a chocolate-covered strawberry looks like:
Click to reveal
17. This is what the back of a soda fountain looks like:
18. This is the first-ever photograph of an operation, taken in 1847 in Boston:
Looks a wee bit unclean.
19. This is what a new pair of goggles looks like to a pair that was used frequently for a six months:
So, if you want to turn the color of your grandparent's living room furniture, just start marinating in a pool.
20. The tiny island of Zavikon is home to the world's shortest international bridge, spanning from the owner's house, located in Canada, to their backyard, located in New York:
21. This is the PAGEOS satellite being inflated in 1965 before being put into orbit the next year:
Notice the tiny, tiny people on the right. It was used for mapping and it looked really cool.
22. Some bars have... landing zones for the especially inebriated folks navigating the stairs:
23. There used to be cocaine in toothache drops:
24. Fingers can grow back. FINGERS CAN GROW BACK:
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Don't try this at home.
25. And, finally, people were talking about climate change as long as 111 years ago:
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What's another way to say that this is the exact opposite of a comforting thought?
