1.These are the contestants for the 1924 Miss America pageant:
Looks like they raided the backstage at my high school drama club.
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2.This is the 1:24 scale model of Hogwarts that was used in every Harry Potter film:
Would love to go Gozilla-mode on that.
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3.This is how big a hummingbird feather is compared to a quarter:
4.Before their destruction by the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan was home to two enormous Buddha statues, one towering at an impressive 175 feet:
They were built over 1500 years ago.
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5.Here’s what that same area looks like today:
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6.This is allegedly what Frank Sintra requested in his dressing room before a show:
7.The original Mr. Potato Head used an ACTUAL potato:
And if you look closely, you’ll see it also had DLC in the form of orange, beet, apple, and pepper.
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8.This is how big the Moon is compared to Australia:
Where would you rather move: the Moon or Australia?
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9.The Air Force Academy has stealth bomber shaped tortilla chips for their nachos:
10.Some medieval helmets had mustaches:
History is incredible, isn’t it?
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11.This is a lava skylight, a hole above flowing lava that let’s you gaze in and see all that red, flowy goodness:
Hell, it looks like a portal to Heck.
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12.This is what the Hindenburg looked like while it was under construction:
It was absolutely enormous.
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13.And this is what the dining hall looked like on board the finished zeppelin:
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14.This is the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle. It was torn down around 2019 and replaced by…
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15.A wonderful new waterfront area:
16.This is what a used hypodermic needle looks like under an electron microscope:
Note the individual red blood cells.
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17.Grapes… grapes can be huge:
Imagine chompin’ into that sucker. It would be amazing.
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18.Penguins… HAVE KNEES!
19.This is what a 40 pound rubber band ball looks like:
Imagine slam dunking that thing.
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20.This is an Ancient Roman pipe leading to a hot springs. It’s still functional today:
And full of delicious lead.
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21.This beautiful little fella is the Sphaerocoris annulus, also known as the “Picasso bug:”
It’s found in several places in Africa. Folks, do we stan this beautiful beetle?
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22.Here’s a group of service dogs being “tested” on their ability to sit through an entire musical:
23.This is what a stingray’s tail looks like after an attack:
24.Over 80,000 people attended the 1921 heavyweight championship boxing match between Georges Carpentier and Jack Dempsey:
It was held at a place called Boyle’s Thirty Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey. Dempsey won.
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25.And, finally, here are a whole bunch of knock-off Egyptian candies:
