These pictures just get better and better .
1.This is what Antarctica looks like from the window of a plane:
2.Hummingbird eggs are very, very small:
3.This is what a minimum security prison in Norway looks like:
4.Baby owls sleep facedown, on their stomachs:
5.This is roughly how many passenger trains there are in the USA compared with Europe:
6.This is how big a size 18 shoe is compared with a can of soda:
7.This is what a sunset looks like from space:
8.The original plan for Mount Rushmore included the bodies of the four presidents:
9.This is how large the biggest seed on the planet, the double coconut seed, is compared with a person:
10.This is what a $100 bill looked like in 1977, 2003, and 2017:
11.The names for a bookworm in different languages are incredible:
12.This is how big an average-size human is compared with a bunch of different bears and, just for fun, the tallest man who ever lived, Robert Wadlow:
13.This is what the “American section” of a Polish grocery store looks like:
14.This is what Mount Everest looks like from the window of a plane:
15.Hedges can be absolutely massive:
16.And bolts, my boy? Bolts can be absolutely gigantic:
17.This is how big a battleship, specifically the USSIowa, is compared with a normal-size boat:
18.Speaking of which, submarines are also really, really big:
19.One panel of glass survived the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11. This is it:
20.This is the last meal Richard Nixon ate in the White House before he resigned as president — pineapple, cottage cheese, and a glass of milk:
21.This exhibit shows what happens to marble over time if people are allowed to stick their grubby little paws all over it:
22.This is what the REST of a fire hydrant looks like:
23.This is how big Antarctica is compared with the United States:
24.This is the death mask of Sir Isaac Newton:
25.Thomas Edison’s last breath was captured and now resides in a museum:
26.This is what the Oval Office looks like completely empty:
27.This is what North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal, home to one of the world’s last uncontacted peoples, looks like from above:
28.This is what a tumbleweed looks like before, well, it tumbles:
29.This is Travis Gienger standing over his award-winning 2,749-poundpumpkin, which won the 50th annual World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off:
30.This is what the fossilized skin imprint of a dinosaur looks like:
31.Remember Nickelodeon Studios?Slime Time Liveand all that jazz?
Well, this is what it looks like today:
32.This is the check for $7.2 million, issued Aug. 1,1868, that the US sent to Russia for the purchase of Alaska:
33.This picture, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, shows what a dying star looks like:
34.This is what the painting directly across from the “Mona Lisa” looks like:
35.This is a tiny, pill-size camera that you swallow so that doctors can get a…well, a very intimate look at your digestive system:
36.This is what a cabinet full of uranium glass looks like under UV light:
37.This is what the “hand” of a manatee looks like:
38.This is the first picture ever taken of an image broadcast on television:
39.These are the “Stairs of Death,” an extremely steep staircase located in Peru’s Huayna Picchu:
40.This picture, from the 1980 Moscow Olympics, shows a number of performers making a human torch:
41.There’s an underwater ancient Roman city that you can dive to and explore:
42.Stoplights, but for U-turns, exist:
43.This is theBrewsterarmor suit, one of the first fully functional suits of body armor designed for World War I combat:
44.You can move an entire house with a truck:
45.This isLonnie Johnson, inventor of the Super Soaker, enjoying his invention:
46.During the Battle of Britain during World War II, cows were painted with bright white paint to stop cars fromhittingthem during the nightly blackouts:
47.Couches, my friend…couches can be really, really big:
48.This picture, from 1930, shows a plane flying over the old city of Baghdad:
49.There are a whole bunch of trees on Earth that were planted with seeds that flew to the moon on Apollo 14:
50.This is how England’s A303 road evolved over time:
51.This is what a lion’s fang looks like compared with a cat’s fang:
52.This map, from 1507, is the first map to ever label America as “America”:
53.The different ways to say something like “It’s the bee’s knees” in various languages are incredible:
54.This is what the inside of a grenade looks like:
55.This is the difference between modern-day corn and its pre-domesticated form:
56.In sad news, the world’s oldest dog, 31-year-old Bobi,diedlast month:
57.This is what an authentic, mint condition Woodstock 1969 ticket looks like:
58.This is Franz Reichelt sporting a homemade parachute suit that he was confident would save him if he jumped off the Eiffel Tower:
59.This is apparently an eighth-grade test from 1912. Are you passing it?
60.Some scallops have a ton of tiny little blue eyes:
And, finally, this is what a 1-ton block of cheese looks like:
