Our world is an amazing place with a long and storied history, full of both good and bad. Let's take a virtual field trip through time with this batch of interesting and intriguing photos and the stories behind them.
The world is full of wonder, you just have to know where to look.
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This is what's underneath a fire hydrant:
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Emu eggs look like something out of Game of Thrones:
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In 1918, a suffragette offered the following advice “to young ladies” on marriage:
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This is a picture of the first-ever international tennis match at Wimbledon in 1883:
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A pair of giant panda twins were born last week in South Korea:
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Here's a closer look at them:
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This is what Antarctica looks like from space:
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The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:"Aeroplane," "taxi," and "loganberry." Some big ones in there.
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The world's oldest diving suit is absolutely terrifying:
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This is what the world's first domestic vacuum cleaner looked like in 1906:
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This is Venus the bulldog, the official mascot of the HMS Vansittart, a World War II destroyer in the Royal Navy:
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This is what the inside of a bungee cord looks like:
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This is Joseph C. Gayetty, the man who invented commercial toilet paper:
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It's worth noting that toilet paper from that era looked very, very uncomfortable:
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This is what cinnamon looks like fresh off the tree:
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This is what years and years of layers of graffiti looks like:
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There are avocados out there that just might be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen:
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This is Conrad Veidt, the man whose performance in the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs inspired the look of the iconic villain the Joker:
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This is what a 3-year-old Albert Einstein looked like:
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This is the Pesse canoe, the oldest boat on Earth:The boat is over 10,000 years old.
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This is a billboard that was posted outside of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a town established as a manufacturing site as part of the Manhattan Project:
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The Titanic had a gym on board. This is what it looked like:
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And this is what one of the exercise bikes inside the Titanic gym looked like:
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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:
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This is what it looked like in 1937 on the first day cars were allowed on the Golden Gate Bridge:
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This is what the capstone on the top of an ancient Egyptian pyramid looked like:
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That capstone in particular belonged to the ruined black pyramid of Amenemhat III. Here's what the pyramid looks like today:
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This is Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls while inside a barrel:She was 62 years old at the time. People going over waterfalls in a barrel fell off real hard. We should bring it back.
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This is a picture of the opening of the very first New York City subway back in 1904:
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People used to move houses with a whole bunch of horses:
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This picture, taken in 1882, shows the Statue of Liberty in the early stages of its construction in France:
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This is William Hutchings, one of the last surviving American Revolutionary War veterans:He was 100 in this picture.
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People were talking about climate change as long as 111 years ago:
