36 Fascinating Photos To Pique Your Interest
solidsnake4545 Published 11/27/2022
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1. "This man, Gay Jewel, was declared the "world's heaviest man" in 1899:"
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2. "This is what the end of 13,000 miles of the Great Wall of China looks like:"
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3. "This adorable little thing is a hummingbird's feather:"
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4. "This is what an elephant's tail looks like close up:"
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5. "And this is what one of those tail hairs looks like up close:"
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6. "Pilots get special cups on airplanes:"
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7. "This is what a completely empty CVS store looks like:"
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8. "This is what the Mayan temple at Chichen Itza looked like before it was restored:"
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9. "And this is what it looks like today:"
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10. "Have you ever looked closely at the backs of a cat's legs? There are whiskers there called carpal whiskers:"
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11. "A fire alarm is...just a switch!"
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12. "Black paper towels exist:"
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13. "This is what a 30-year-old cat looks like:"
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14. "Lemons float, limes sink. LEMONS FLOAT, LIMES SINK!"
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15. "See that little hole there? This is what Mount Vesuvius looks like from space:"
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16. "This enormous disk is what 10 MB of data looked like in the 1960s:"
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17. "This is a piece of uranium glassware, a special kind of glass that glows under a blacklight because of the uranium added when the glass was being made:"
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18. "A normal-size piece of paper looks incredibly tiny when held by Shaq:"
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19. "Just last week the world population surpassed 8 billion humans. 8 BILLION!"
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20. "This, wicker chairs and all, is what the interior of a plane looked like in 1925:"
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21. "This absolute unit is the largest bird to have ever existed, Argentavis magnificens:" "It had a 22-foot wingspan and weighed over 150 pounds."
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22. "And, just for good measure, this is the world's smallest bird, the bee hummingbird:"
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23. "This is Margaret Gorman, the woman who won the very first Miss America competition in 1921:Closeup of Margaret Gorman"
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24. "They sell red solo cups as "American party cups" in New Zealand:"
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25. "UPS drivers have special UPS socks as part of their uniform:"
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26. "This is the world's oldest surviving photograph, taken by Nicéphore Niépce in 1827:" "It's called "View from the Window at Le Gras." It's, well, a view from a window."
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27. "Here's what the original, un-enhanced world's oldest picture looks like today:"
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28. "Every single letter in the alphabet appears in a least one US state...except for the letter Q:"
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29. "Baby zebras are born with brown stripes before they eventually turn black:"
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30. "This is a screenshot of the Silk Road, the infamous black market on the dark web, before it was taken down:"
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31. "This is what the Eiffel Tower looked like as it was being built:"
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32. "This is a picture from Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration in 1865. Can you spot him?"
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33. "Speaking of Lincoln, this man, Valentine Tapley, vowed in 1860 to never cut his beard again if Abraham Lincoln was elected president. Here's him in 1896:" "He won 5th place at a World's Longest Beard competition that year."
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34. "And, again, just for good measure, here's Hans N. Langseth, winner of the world's longest beard competition in 1922:"
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36. "And, lastly, uh, apparently, some people can do this:"
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