This is the first picture of a tornado ever taken:
It was taken in 1884
Tangentially related: here is the oldest picture of the White House ever taken:
It was taken in 1846.
When Hurricane Floyd hit Florida in 1999, flamingos from the Miami-Metro zoo took refuge in a bathroom to protect themselves from the storm:
Curved doors are a thing that exist:
Before 2003, Boston had an elevated highway run through the city. It was eventually moved underground and replaced by...
This:
During World War II, the statue of "David" by Michelangelo was completely encased in bricks to prevent damage from bombs:
Telephone lineworkers go to telephone lineworker school where they learn how to be telephone lineworkers:
Hex wrenches can be WILDLY different sizes:
This is the foldout bed George Washington slept on during the Revolutionary War:
This is a cassowary, often called the "world's most dangerous bird"...
And this is what a cassowary's eggs look like. They're green!
Blue stop signs exist:
This, in all its glory, is what the inside of the Wienermobile looks like:
The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:
This is what the underside of a stingray looks like:
In the 1950s, archeologists discovered the 13th-century doodles of a Russian boy named Onfim, some of the oldest drawings by a child ever discovered:
Cement trucks and other giant trucks can have student drivers:
And finally, a billion is really, really, really, really big:
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