Our world is full of weird and wonderful things. From the smallest of Legos to the towering statues. And on the internet, people know how to show off the wonder that surrounds us.
So take a break from the day and enjoy a large batch of fascinating photos of our fascinating world, you won't regret that you did.
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This is Stephen Taylor, the man with the world's longest tongue:
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This is what Albert Einstein's desk looked like the day he died: Specifically on April 18, 1955.
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This is how incredibly small a hummingbird feather is:
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This picture, taken in 1925, shows the passengers on an Imperial Airways flight watching one of the first in-flight movies ever: They're watching a silent film called The Lost World
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On Feb. 7, 1984, Bruce McCandless II performed the first-ever untethered space walk, and folks, it looks absolutely terrifying:
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Before you could just put everything into the Notes app on your iPhone, some people used metal grocery lists to do their shopping:
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Some chickens lay eggs with white yolks:
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This is what a $1,000 bill looks like: It was first put into circulation in 1928. That's Grover Cleveland's big mug on the front.
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This is the safety net that was installed under the Golden Gate Bridge during its construction in the 1930s. The net saved 19 people through the duration of the work: The 19 men who were saved by the net became known as the "Halfway to Hell Club."
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This is what a baby pigeon looks like:
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This is the pistol Gavrilo Princip used to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand and set off World War I: This pistol led to the deaths of over 16 million people.
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This colorized picture of Ramses II's Great Temple at Abu Simbel in Egypt, taken circa 1865, shows just how enormous the colossal statues in front of the entrance are:
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While we're on the subject of incredible Egyptian art, this is a 3,000-year-old ancient Egyptian painter's palette, complete with six different colors: It's from the reign of Amenhotep III, circa 1390 BCE.
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This X-ray, taken by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, is the first X-ray ever:
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This is Steven Spielberg on top of Bruce, the animatronic shark that, well, played Jaws in Jaws:
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This is Emma Morano, the last living person to have been born in the 1800s: Emma, born in 1899, died at the age of 117 in 2017 after a short reign as the oldest person alive. She's also, obviously, the last person to have lived in three different centuries.
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This is what Chicago's Eureka Building looked like after a winter fire was put out by the Fire Department:
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Cars in Canada's Northwest Territories have polar bear license plates:
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This is a REAL picture of the moon crossing in front of the Earth:
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This is what the rabies vaccine looks like. It's purple!
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This is Rumeysa Gelgi, the tallest woman in the world: This picture was taken when she was 17 years old.
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She stands just over 7' tall and has to travel like this when flying on an airplane:
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This is what one of her hands looks like compared to a much smaller person's hand:
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This is what the Eiffel Tower looked like while it was under construction:
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On May 14, 1999, crowds gathered in New York's Times Square to watch the final episode of Seinfeld:
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This picture, taken in 1946, is one of the first images of Earth ever taken from space: It was captured from a 35-millimeter camera attached to a V-2 rocket.
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This is what a counterfeit $10 looks like compared to a real one:
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You're, of course, familiar with Mahatma Gandhi...
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But have you ever seen a picture of him as a young man? Here's Gandhi some time in the late 1800s:
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Black tomatoes exist: It's a strain called "black beauty" and is apparently "rich, smooth, and savory with earthy tones."
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In 1925, Hugo Gernsback invented "The Isolator," a helmet designed to completely block out any and all distractions:
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This is how much meat one single cow produces:
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Avocados can actually be this huge:
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This is the Dynasphere, a giant wheel vehicle invented by Dr. J. H. Purves that could go as a fast as 30 MPH:
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This is what a rip current looks like:
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This is how big a Ford F-650 truck is compared to a typical sized person:
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Emu eggs are absolutely beautiful:
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And this is a pamphlet of marriage advice given to young couples from 1891:
