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This is the world’s tallest statue, the Statue of Unity:
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And here’s how big the TOES of the statue are:
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Before it became that iconic sign all us sign-heads know and love, the Hollywood sign read “Hollywoodland”:
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This is what a pair of George Washington’s dentures looked like:
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This is Pauline Musters, the shortest woman ever to live:
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This is how large the statue of David’s, uh, rear-end is:
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This is how big everyone’s favorite telescope, the Hubble Telescope, is:
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This is how big the largest shark that ever lived, the Megalodon, was compared to a human:
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And here’s how big the jaws of the Megalodon were compared to a human:
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One of the biggest fads of the 1950s was “phonebooth stuffing,” where-in a bunch of people would, well, stuff themselves into a phonebooth:
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This is what the inside of a gas stove looks like:
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Emu eggs look like something straight out of Game of Thrones:
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Lots of US presidents have spoken multiple languages — here’s a list of every purportedly multilingual president:
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Hotels used to have to put up signs explaining that electricity is safe and not to be feared:
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In 1933, A.L. Kahn caught a 5,000-pound manta ray off the coast of Florida:
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Those orange pylons in football end zones have so much technology in them that they require fans to operate:
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This is what an anaconda looks like in the wild:
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If you get a perfect score on the ACT, you receive this letter:
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Gallstones can get really, really big:
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This little old thing of unimaginable horrors is a tapeworm under a microscope:
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This is what a toucan’s skeleton looks like:
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And, finally, if you wear your Crocs out in the sun for too long you’ll get a wonderful little Croc tan:
