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This is how big an average polar bear is compared to a human:
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And to make things even more terrifying, this is how big a polar bear’s paw is compared to a human hand:
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This is how big Tokyo is compared to London:
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This is how big the Statue Of Liberty’s face is compared to a person:
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This is what a completely empty airplane looks like:
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This thermal image of a dog shows how chilly its nose can be compared to the rest of its body:
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This is how big a bar of $26,000 worth of gold is:
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And this is what $700 worth of platinum looks like:
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Now, you’re obviously familiar with the front side of a peacock. It’s majestic. Glorious, even! But have you ever seen a peacock’s back side? Now you have:
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This is what Franklin Delano Roosevelt looked like at the start of his first term as President in 1933…
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And this is the last picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever taken, snapped just one day before his death:
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Unfortunately, there’s no treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Just a lot of nothing:
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And this is what the back of the “Mona Lisa” looks like:
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Fake teeth don’t glow under a blacklight:
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This is what the inside of the Leaning Tower of Pisa looks like:
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This is what the inside of a quarter looks like:
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This is what a store-bought egg looks like compared with an egg bought at a farmers market:
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This is Mary Ann Bevan, a widow who was given the title of “World’s Ugliest Woman” in 1920:
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This is what a handful of peanuts look like if you let them sprout:
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This is what a tumbleweed looks like before it…tumbles:
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This is what the control room on a British submarine looked like in the 1960s:
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This is what the battleship USS Independence looks like outside of water:
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This is what the inside of a water tower looks like:
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This is what a jail cell in Sweden’s biggest prison looks like:
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This is what freshly pressed olive oil looks like:
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In 1952 it cost $61 to give birth:
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There have been some really terrible and really out-there amendments proposed to the US constitution:
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This is what the skeleton of a king cobra looks like:
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This is what the dorm room of two college students looked like in the 1910s:
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This is Civil War veteran Jacob Miller, a man who was shot right between the eyes and lived for 17 more years:
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This is what a whale’s eye looks like up close:
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This picture, from Abraham Lincoln’s funeral, has a special guest. In the second story window shown here is a young Teddy Roosevelt:
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This picture was taken shortly after David Scott and Neil Armstrong’s Gemini 8 space capsule landed in the Pacific Ocean:
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This is what Harriet Tubman looked like in old age:
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In 2020, an Austrian town with a very provocative name voted to change its name to a much more family friend version:
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This is what the American snacks section in an Australian grocery store looks like:
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This is a room full of competitors at the 1980 Space Invaders video game world championships:
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This painting shows the devastating effects centuries of cigarette smoke has on art:
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This is what the Golden Gate Bridge looked like while under construction:
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Here’s a real, live copy of the Magna Carta from 1305:
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This is what an all-terrain wheelchair made for the beach looks like:
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In a deck of cards, every king except for the king of hearts has a mustache:
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This is what the pyramids of Giza look like from above:
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Curved escalators exist:
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This is a dinosaur tail that was preserved in amber. Notice the feathers:
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Orange-flavored Tic Tacs are white in Europe:
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Speaking of which, American Froot Loops and Canadian Froot Loops are totally different colors:
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Recognize these big ol’ rocks? This is Mount Rushmore before the presidential heads were carved into it:
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And this is what Mount Rushmore looks like from behind:
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The inside of a fire alarm is just… a switch:
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This is what a strawberry without any seeds looks like:
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Voting can be slightly dirty:
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This is what a mass of DNA looks like:
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Australia is really, really big:
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This is what the late 7-foot-7-inch NBA legend Manute Bol looked like while swimming in a typical swimming pool:
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This is what a husky looks like compared with a wolf:
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And this is how big a wolf’s paw print is compared with a human hand:
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Cooling towers have an open bottom:
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This is what a cross-section of wood from the 1950s looks like compared with a cross-section of wood from today:
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And, finally, screwdrivers…well, screwdrivers can be really, really big:
