My Jaw Is Actually Still Completely On The Floor After Seeing These 75 Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time Last Month

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: