I Just Spent The Past 15 Minutes With My Jaw On The Floor After Seeing All These Fascinating Pictures For The First Time And Now I Need You To See Them

1.These are the contestants for the 1924 Miss America pageant:

2.This is how big Earth is compared to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot:

3.This is what the largest species of deer to ever roam the Earth, the Irish Elk, looked like compared to some humans:

4.Most counterfeit money will glow under a UV light:

5.And speaking of counterfeit money, this is what happens if you try to print out an image of a $20 bill on the internet:

6.This tiny little creature the size of a penny is one of the deadliest creatures on Earth:

7.This is what the inside of a 1970s spacesuit looked like:

8.This is allegedly what Frank Sintra requested in his dressing room before a show:

9.This is what the skeleton of a spider monkey looks like:

10.This is what a typical children’s playground looked like in 1908:

11.This is the 1:24 scale model of Hogwarts that was used in every Harry Potter film:

12.This is how big a hummingbird feather is compared to a quarter:

13.This is Ella Grigsby, aka Mme Abomah, the alleged tallest woman in the world during the late 19th century:

14.Some hairdressers have special shoe covers to stop hair from getting all up in their business:

15.This is what a polio vaccine card looked like in the early ’60s:

16.This is what a typical day of air travel over Europe looks like:

17.This is what a “9 out of 10 difficulty level” puzzle looks like:

18.This is what a Hoover Dam spillway tunnel looks like. Check out the tiny, tiny walkway on top:

19.This is what a movie theater undergoing some heavy-duty seat cleaning looks like:

20.This is what a suit of elephant armor looked like:

21.This is Marie Curie riding in her mobile X-ray van, designed to treat wounded soldiers on the go during World War I:

22.This is what your lips look like under an electron microscope:

23.This is what Brian Shaw, four-time winner of the World’s Strongest Man competition, looks like next to a couple of 200-pound bodybuilders:

24.This is how many hearing aid batteries a nursing home goes through in a month:

25.The Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden is home to an almost completely preserved 17th-century warship:

26.This is what the Panama canal looked like while under construction:

27.Some of the Titanic‘s deck chairs were salvaged from the wreck. Here’s what one of them looks like:

28.A group of Japanese samurai visited the Great Sphinx of Giza in 1864:

29.This is what the inside of the Statue of Liberty looks like:

30.This is President Lyndon B. Johnson driving a Amphicar, a, well, amphibious car designed to operate on land and sea:

31.Before he retired from baseball, the legendary Lou Gerhig auditioned for the role of Tarzan. They made him carry and a spear and everything:

32.Penguins eggs are translucent after being boiled:

33.Some remotes have buttons for numbers beyond your wildest imagination:

34.This is what velcro looks like under an electron microscope:

35.This is what the skeleton of a pufferfish looks like:

36.This is how large the biggest seed on the planet, the double coconut seed, is:

37.This is how big the shell largest species of freshwater turtle to ever live, the Stupendemys, was:

38.This is Louise Joy Brown, the first baby ever born after IVF, or in vitro fertilisation:

39.Here’s what Louise looks like today:

40.Square fire extinguishers exist:

41.The Rosetta Stone, one of the most important archeological discoveries of all time, contains hieroglyphs, demotic Egyptian script, Ancient Greek, and… this on the side:

42.This is a pepperbox pistol, a type of firearm that could have as many as 24 barrels:

43.This is Dr. Rufus Weaver and “Harriet,” the completely dissected nervous system of a woman:

44.Speaking of strange guns, Saddam Hussein was the owner of a gold-plated AK-47:

45.Before their destruction by the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan was home to two enormous Buddha statues, one towering at an impressive 175 feet:

46.Here’s what that same area looks like today:

47.The original Mr. Potato Head used an ACTUAL potato:

48.This is how big the Moon is compared to Australia:

49.The Air Force Academy has stealth bomber shaped tortilla chips for their nachos:

50.Some medieval helmets had mustaches:

51.This is a lava skylight, a hole above flowing lava that let’s you gaze in and see all that red, flowy goodness:

52.This is what the Hindenburg looked like while it was under construction:

53.And this is what the dining hall looked like on board the finished zeppelin:

54.Grapes… grapes can be huge:

55.Penguins… HAVE KNEES!

56.This is what a 40 pound rubber band ball looks like:

57.This is an Ancient Roman pipe leading to a hot springs. It’s still functional today:

58.Here’s a group of service dogs being “tested” on their ability to sit through an entire musical:

59.This is what a stingray’s tail looks like after an attack:

60.Over 80,000 people attended the 1921 heavyweight championship boxing match between Georges Carpentier and Jack Dempsey:

61.This picture, taken in 1925, is the last known photo of a Barbary lion in the wild:

62.Speaking of which, this is a picture of one of the last Tasmanian tigers, an animal that went extinct in 1936:

63.This is Maurice Tillet, a wrestler who some say the beloved character Shrek was based on:

64.This is beautician Max Factor with his invention, the beauty calibrator, a device designed to show which parts of a woman’s face needed more or less make-up:

65.This vehicle was the car being driven when the first ever speeding ticket was given to Walter Arnold in 1896:

66.2025 marks the official beginning of “Gen Beta.” Here’s a list of every named generation going back to the 1400s:

67.This photo, taken by Louis Botan in 1899, is one of the first photos ever taken underwater:

68.One semester at Harvard cost in $170.42 in 1869:

69.Speaking of the cost of things in the past, a ticket to see The Beatles in 1964 would run you about $4.90:

70.This is Daniel Waldo, one of the last surviving veterans of the American Revolutionary War, pictured here in 1864:

71.A giant barrel of olive oil costs about $1190 at Costco:

72.Stoplights, but for U-turns, exist:

73.This is a picture of German Shepherd police dogs facing the ultimate challenge: remaining perfectly still while a cat sits right in front of them:

74.If you win a car on The Price Is Right you get a special little license plate cover:

75.And, finally, here are a whole bunch of knock-off Egyptian candies: