This picture, taken in 1925, is the last known photo of a Barbary lion in the wild:
Speaking of which, this is a picture of one of the last Tasmanian tigers, an animal that went extinct in 1936:
This is Maurice Tillet, a wrestler who some say the beloved character Shrek was based on:
Tillet, known as the French Angel, apparently went undefeated for 18 months in the early 1940s.
This is beautician Max Factor with his invention, the beauty calibrator, a device designed to show which parts of a woman's face needed more or less make-up:
Here's another look at this totally not terrifying device:
This vehicle was the car being driven when the first ever speeding ticket was given to Walter Arnold in 1896:
He was allegedly going a whopping 8 miles-per-hour in a 4 miles-per-hour zone.
2025 marks the official beginning of "Gen Beta." Here's a list of every named generation going back to the 1400s:
This photo, taken by Louis Botan in 1899, is one of the first photos ever taken underwater:
One semester at Harvard cost in $170.42 in 1869:
That's about $3,900 today.
Speaking of the cost of things in the past, a ticket to see The Beatles in 1964 would run you about $4.90:
For centuries the Great Sphinx of Giza was almost completely covered in sand:
It wasn't until the 1900s that the Sphinx was completely uncovered:
This is Daniel Waldo, one of the last surviving veterans of the American Revolutionary War, pictured here in 1864:
A giant barrel of olive oil costs about $1190 at Costco:
The ET puppet is still around and in rough, rough shape:
Stoplights, but for U-turns, exist:
This is a picture of German Shepherd police dogs facing the ultimate challenge: remaining perfectly still while a cat sits right in front of them:
This is Anna M. Jarvis, the inventor of Mother's Day:
This is what a horse ambulance looks like:
This is what the throne of King Charlemagne looked like:
This is what one of New York City's first subways looked like while it was being built:
Violins made specifically for children are very, very tiny:
This set of 52 playing cards, dating back to the 1400s, is the oldest surviving example of a full deck of cards:
And finally, this picture isn't blurry. That's just a bunch of muffin tins stacked on each other:
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He avoided getting shot in the war because of not wearing the hat.
#20 Not what I was expecting.