03-03-2025
75 Extremely Rare Mind-Blowing Pictures I Found Last Month That Might Just Completely And Totally Change Your Perspective On The World
1. This is what a fish getting a CT scan looks like:
2. This is a picture of the first-ever international tennis match at Wimbledon in 1883:
3. This is Jeanne Calment, the longest-lived person ever verified. Here she is at the tender age of 120 years and 239 days:
She apparently ate two pounds of chocolate a week and smoked until age 119, passing away at age 122. Of course, like any story of a super old person, there's some controversy. Read more here.
4. This is what the set of Seinfeld looked like:
Specifically, this is what it looked like during the filming of the Seinfeld reunion episode during Season 7 of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
5. This is what a jail cell in Germany looks like:
6. And, for good measure, this is what a prison cell in Sweden looked like the '70s:
Looks like the dorm room of a dude who would corner you and talk to you about chemtrails for way too long.
7. This is what New York City's Central Park looked like during the Great Depression:
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This picture, captured in 1933, showcases a range of "Hoovervilles," makeshift settlements created by the unemployed and named after President Herbert Hoover.
8. This is what a cow molar looks like compared to a human molar:
9. The small island in the middle of this picture is where Princess Diana is buried:
She was buried there so the water could "act as a buffer against the interventions of the insane and ghoulish" and any other curious people.
10. In 1918, a suffragette offered the following advice 'to young ladies' on marriage:
Definitely some valuable advice in there.
11. Revolving fridges exist:
12. This is what a $100 bill looked like in 1977, 2003, and 2017:
14.
It's "The Wedding at Cana" by Paolo Veronese. Which do you prefer?
15. This is what Bruce Lee's workout routine was in 1965:
Shoutout Bruce Lee.
16. This is what a human skeleton looks like compared with a gorilla skeleton:
17. 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:
18. This is what a tumbleweed looks like before, well, it tumbles:
Well, then.
19. This is what the "hand" of a manatee looks like:
20. There are a whole bunch of trees on Earth that were planted with seeds that flew to the moon on Apollo 14:
21. This is the executioner robe and axe of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, the official executioner of the Papal States in the 1800s:
22. You're probably familiar with the most terrifying looking fish in the ocean, the anglerfish...
23. Well, this is how big the males of the species actually are:
24. This is how big the anchor chains of a ship are:
25. Recently, a Russian drone attacked a gigantic radiation confinement tower at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, inflicting damage that required some repairs:
27. Speaking Chernobyl, this is the famous Azure Swimming Pool before the nuclear disaster...
28. And the same swimming pool today:
Erik Peterson / Alamy Stock Photo
29. If you shine a black light on an Illinois driver's license, Abe Lincoln will be wearing a hat:
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If you shine a light on an Ohio license, William Howard Taft should get stuck in a bathtub.
30. This is what the back of a soda fountain looks like:
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If you know, you know.
31. 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:
Kay Roxby / Alamy Stock Photo
Man, and I don't even have a backyard.
32. Some bars have... landing zones for the especially inebriated folks navigating the stairs:
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What will science think of next?
33. This is a picture of Mars that was taken THIS MONTH:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Weather looks nicer than New York City, not going to lie.
34. While we're on the subject, this is the last picture the Mars Opportunity rover took:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/ASU
Well, one of the final few. Goodnight, sweet prince.
35. This is what Antarctica looks like from space:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio / The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC)
Read more about how this image was made here.
36. This is the world's largest chocolate bar, weighing in at over 12,000 pounds:
Scott Olson / Getty Images
Call me when it's the world's largest Icebreak Wintergreen mint.
37. This is what a lion getting a CT scan looks like:
David Silverman / Getty Images
I'm sure the mood in that room if very calm.
38. This is how big the vertical slab on an A380 plane is:
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Really, really big!!!
39. This is Alfred Langevin, a man renowned for his very useful talent of being able to smoke out of his eyeball:
/ Alamy Stock Photo
Flight? Invisibility? Nah. Gimme the smoking eye power.
40. This is what an upside-down iceberg looks like:
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I wish to touch it.
41. This is what the world's first domestic vacuum cleaner looked like in 1906:
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It looks like you'd need railroad tracks to move that thing.
42. In the early 1900s, Sears sold entire mail order homes that would be shipped via train and put together by whoever bought one. This house cost $5,375:
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A bunch of these homes are still standing. Check them out here.
43. This is what the inside of a bungee cord looks like:
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This does not make me feel good.
44. This is Joseph C. Gayetty, the man who invented commercial toilet paper:
Historic Collection / Alamy Stock Photo
Now, I know we stan Joey G.
45. It's worth noting that toilet paper from that era looked very, very uncomfortable:
It fact, it would often give your rear end SPLINTERS.
46. This is what cinnamon looks like fresh off the tree:
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I wish to chomp it.
47. This is what years and years of layers of graffiti looks like:
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48. Australia lets its citizens know exactly how their tax dollars are spent:
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Neat!
49. Speaking of Australia, there's a whole lot of nothing:
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Well, not nothing. Just not a lot of people.
50. Over 2,000 years ago, a child living in ancient Rome made this footprint in a clay tile while it was drying:
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And I'm STILL mad at the kid.
51. This is what the start of a river looks like:
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Otherwise known as a spring. This is the start of the Metolius River in Oregon.
52. This is what an x-ray of a six-fingered hand looks like:
53. It cost just about $100 to give birth in 1956:
I think it costs $100,000 if you stub your toe today.
54. This glorious 1200 year old specimen is the biggest, best-preserved piece of human poop:
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It's from a 9th-century Viking and apparently worth almost $40,000, too.
55. This is a hammer-headed bat, an absolutely enormous fruit bat with an average wingspan of over three feet:
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Look, buddy, I love you gotta stay away from me.
56. Speaking of gigantic animals, check out the size of this here lobster claw:
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Say it with me, folks: That's a big claw.
57. This is what a condom from the 1700s looked like:
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Not naming any names, but it reminds me of a certain Viking's poop.
58. This is a display of ancient Egyptian furniture, from sometime around 1,500 BCE:
Who knew that humanity perfected furniture so long ago?
59. This is the Brewster armor suit, one of the first fully functional suits of body armor designed for World War I combat:
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All I'll say is, you better not let Gru see you wearing that.
60. This exhibit shows what happens to marble over time if people are allowed to stick their grubby little paws all over it:
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The untouched marble is on the left, and the touched marble on the right.
61. This is the check for $7.2 million, issued Aug. 1, 1868, that the US sent to Russia for the purchase of Alaska:
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Would love to personally receive $7 million from the US government one day.
62. Bolts? Bolts can be absolutely gigantic:
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Imagine how cool it would be to screw one of these bad boys in. Wow.
63. In Finland's Riisitunturi National Park, the extreme cold transforms trees into stunning, snow-covered sculptures, creating a surreal winter landscape:
/ Alamy Stock Photo
Looks like something from another planet.
64. These are apparently the requirements for being a flight attendant for one airline in 1954:
That's gonna get a yikes from me.
65. This is what a deviled ostrich egg looks like:
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In case you were wondering.
66. 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:
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To paraphrase the big man Carl Sagan, everyone and everything you have ever known exists on that little speck.
67. In 1990, the very first McDonald's opened up in the Soviet Union. This is how gigantic the line was:
Vitaly Armand / AFP via Getty Images
68. And 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":
Vitaly Armand / AFP via Getty Images
Here's a comparison between the two restaurants, 32 years apart.
69. This is the first-ever photograph of an operation, taken in 1847 in Boston:
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Looks a wee bit unclean.
70. This is what a new pair of goggles looks like to a pair that was used frequently for a six months:
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So, if you want to turn the color of your grandparent's living room furniture, just start marinating in a pool.
71. 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?
72. This is the PAGEOS satellite being inflated in 1965 before being put into orbit the next year:
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Notice the tiny, tiny people on the right. It was used for mapping and it looked really cool.
73. There used to be cocaine in toothache drops:
Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo
And judging by the ad, it was given to children. Okay, then!
74. Fingers can grow back. FINGERS CAN GROW BACK:
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Don't try this at home.
75. And, finally, nothing can push the boundaries of all we know about physics and space and time more than a dad's wallet:
