My Little Peanut-Sized Brain Is Completely Blown After Seeing These Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The First Time Last Week
1.One dollar in 1913 is worth $30.22 today:
And, while we're at it, one dollar in 2004 would be worth $1.67 today:
Think of all the Von Dutch hats you could buy if you went back in time:
2.This is what the city of Bologna, Italy looks like from above:
They don't call it the "Red City" for nothing!
3.And this is what the Himalayas look like from International Space Station:
Not so tall now, are you!
4.In Germany, Mr. Clean is known as Mr. Proper:
5.While in Spain, he's known as Don Limpio:
I'd love to chop it up with the Don over a couple Miller Lites.
6.Tires can be very, very big:
This is apparently the size of tire mining trucks often use. That and Transformers.
7.This is what the FBI's fingerprint files looked like in 1942:
Got to think they cleaned this up a bit in the last 80 years.
8.Here's another angle of the football-field-sized archive:
Very chill.
9.There's a furniture store in North Carolina that has a piece of, well, furniture for an entrance:
It's majestic.
10.This is what a 21 layer Jello casserole looks like:
It, too, is majestic:
11.This is Charles Ponzi, the infamous scammer ponzi schemes got their name from:
I could definitely see myself giving this man all my savings.
12.This is what a real executioner's mask looked like:
Incredibly goofy but also very, very terrifying.
13.This is what a child's skull looks like before its baby teeth fall out and adult teeth come in:
Another totally comforting thought.
14.This is one of the last pictures ever taken of Queen Elizabeth II, taken only two days before her death in September 2022:
15.This is what the surface of Mars looking like last month:
Specifically on September 27th. It was taken by the Perseverance rover.
16.This is what a human skeleton looks like compared to a gorilla's skeleton:
Or maybe that's your mom's skeleton. Nah, nah I'm just kidding.
17.Some people paint their electrical boxes to blend into the wall:
It never occurred to me that this could be an option. God's plan.
18.These are hand-drawn sketches of the phases of the moon Galileo Galilei drew in 1610:
Neat!
19.This is what your bones look like under a microscope:
This is a comforting thought, right?
20.This is the size of a flag flown on a Spanish ship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1905:
Absolutely massive!
21.It's possible to get a 2x4 from the center of a tree:
Although, that's not what you want. It's the weakest and oldest part of a tree.
22.And, finally, in 2003, it was discovered that a full-grown, 400-pound Bengal tiger was being kept as a pet in a New York City apartment. Police were able to rescue the tiger, and he lived out the rest of his life in an Ohio animal sanctuary:
There was also a 5-foot alligator in the apartment. Not great, folks. Not great.
23.This is what an intact, peeled egg looks like:
