This is what New York City's Central Park looked like during the Great Depression:
This picture, captured in 1933, showcases a range of "Hoovervilles," makeshift settlements created by the unemployed and named after President Herbert Hoover.
This is what's underneath a fire hydrant:
This is what Antarctica looks like from space:
Emu eggs look like something out of Game of Thrones:
In 1918, a suffragette offered the following advice “to young ladies” on marriage:
This is a picture of the first-ever international tennis match at Wimbledon in 1883:
A pair of giant panda twins were born last week in South Korea:
Here's a closer look at them:
The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:
"Aeroplane," "taxi," and "loganberry." Some big ones in there.
The world's oldest diving suit is absolutely terrifying:
This is what the world's first domestic vacuum cleaner looked like in 1906:
This is Venus the bulldog, the official mascot of the HMS Vansittart, a World War II destroyer in the Royal Navy:
This is what the inside of a bungee cord looks like:
This is Joseph C. Gayetty, the man who invented commercial toilet paper:
It's worth noting that toilet paper from that era looked very, very uncomfortable:
This is what cinnamon looks like fresh off the tree:
This is what years and years of layers of graffiti looks like:
There are avocados out there that just might be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen:
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Indeed it seems!
Put away that plastic straw, you're killing the sea turtles! Oh, and don't look at all the fishing gear in the ocean just being dumped.
Put down the Mountain Dew and look up the word misnomer. Next, think about getting your GED and becoming a useful person. Thanks.
I think what he meant was that the fingers were reattached, but the nails were still able to grow back.
I'm sure he felt the same way about her.
#25 not true, if you look up Zavikon Island in Google maps, they are both in Canada
Correct... with a few clarifications
- the earth's climate has been changing for billions of years and will continue to do so
- some vaccines work, some do not
- masks work at blocking dust, paint overspray, etc.
- the earth is spherical