"Japan uses sprinklers that spray warm underground water to melt the snow on the roads"
This is Robert Wadlow, the tallest man who ever lived:
Before he died, he measured 8'11" tall.
And here's Mr. Wadlow with his slightly shorter dad:
This is what the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC looked like in 1907:
And this is what it looked like 100 years later:
This is what one of Shaq's championship rings looks like on a typical-sized human hand:
These are two of the earliest known photographs of Saturn and Jupiter, taken in the 19th century:
This is what the First Class Lounge on the Titanic looked like:
And this is what the Third Class dining room of the Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic, looked like:
You can buy gigantic safety pins:
That tiny little fellah on the left there is a normal clothes dryer compared to a commercial dryer on its right:
This is the Times Building, the center of New York's Times Square, under construction in 1903:
And here's what that same area looks like over a hundred years later:
This monument to the doomed Donner Party shows just how deep the snow the unfortunate travelers had to deal with was:
This is what an intact, peeled egg looks like:
And this is what a big ol' chunk of a peeled aloe plant looks like:
In 2003, it was discovered that a full-grown, 400-pound bengal tiger was being kept as a pet in a New York City apartment. Police were able to rescue the tiger, and he lived out the rest of his life in an Ohio animal sanctuary:
This man, Tom Pearcy, set the world record for "largest pumpkin boat" in 2018:
This is what the Golden Gate Bridge looked like while it was under construction:
This is Charles Ponzi, the infamous scammer ponzi schemes got their name from:
These are hand-drawn sketches of the phases of the moon Galileo Galilei drew in 1610:
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And if he had been around today he'd be selling Crypto...
That we know of.
Consent her? I hardly knew her!
flirting is not consent and therefore sexual assault? and they wonder why men are all toxic because they make up these arbitrary rules and then steal your sperm and have you pay for the baby 100%.
#16 "mortar" rounds, or are they sentient bombs?
#19 well?? don't leave us in suspense, man, what did she choose??
#31 still nicer than my school cafeteria was
#37 you can dissolve the shells in vinegar to get this
the war was way more expensive
If I'm drunk, I'm not responsible for my actions.
You want equality, there it is.
If either of you morons woke up with your @$$ sore after passing out drunk, you'd be cool with it, right? You'd be: "Hey, I got drunk, he was drunk and raped my @$$, so it's cool".
Someone else shouldn't be and they aren't.
#10 Hopefully those oxygen thieves were left glued to the stand for many days.
#8 No waves or wake on that journey eh?
#15 Advertising is a scourge on humanity.
#41 #44 very nice