This photo, taken by Louis Botan in 1899, is one of the first photos ever taken underwater:
The very first picture taken underwater was done some years earlier, but that was done by attaching a camera to a pole and lowering it into the water. This is the first taken by a diver also submerged.
This is one of only two remaining pirate Jolly Roger flags in existence:
It was captured in 1790. According to the BBC, the flag's red color "signified the pirates intended to spare no life if a battle broke out during a ship's capture."
This is the world's longest limo, the American Dream limo:
It was equipped with both a hot tub and a helicopter landing pad. Just the essentials.
This is one of two remaining Northern white rhinoceros left on Earth:
The two rhinos, both female, live in Kenya and are guarded 24/7.
There's a road in Japan that connects the Toyama and Nagano prefectures that are surrounded by giant snow walls that reach up to 65 feet high:
This 17th-century painting by Giovanni Stanchi shows what the inside of a watermelon looked like in the 1600s, before selective breeding:
This is what the inside of Big Ben looks like behind one of its clock faces:
When Hurricane Floyd hit Florida in 1999, flamingos from the Miami-Metro zoo took refuge in a bathroom to protect themselves from the storm:
This is what a .22 caliber bullet looks like next to a .50 caliber bullet:
You're probably familiar with the gold funerary mask of King Tut — but did you know that another pharaoh's gold death mask was found a few years later? This is the mask of the pharaoh Psusennes I:
His completely intact tomb was found in 1940. However, because of its swampy location in Egypt's Nile delta, a lot of what was stored in the tomb was destroyed over the years.
This is Louise Joy Brown, the first baby ever born after IVF, or in vitro fertilisation:
Born in 1978, she was known at the time as the world's first "test-tube baby."
Here's what Louise looks like today:
There's a city in Russia located next to an absolutely gigantic diamond mine:
The mine is apparently "the world's second-largest excavated hole."
This is what the inside of a 1970s spacesuit looked like:
This is what the world's largest gold nugget, named the Welcome Stranger nugget, looked like. It was found in Australia in 1869:
This is actually a model of the nugget. It weighed almost 160 pounds and was sold pretty much immediately for £9,534, which is about £970,000 today.
Square fire extinguishers exist:
The head of an ant is absolutely terrifying up close:
And, finally, if you win a car on The Price Is Right you get a special little license plate cover:
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#36 It looks as if it wants to eat your liver with a nice Chianti and some fava beans.
What I found most interesting was that there are around 40 birds in that one pic. I counted beaks.
#15 Yeah, but nobody eats them because there's a ton of way more awesome streetfood around in Italy
#22 Must be a blast navigating that thing in a city. Or even bumps in the road.
#35 but it's oval! (Also rectangular, not square)