This is Jeanne Calment, the longest-lived person ever verified. Here she is at the tender age of 120 years and 239 days:
In Finland's Riisitunturi National Park, the extreme cold transforms trees into stunning, snow-covered sculptures, creating a surreal winter landscape:
These are apparently the requirements for being a flight attendant for one airline in 1954:
You're probably familiar with the most terrifying looking fish in the ocean, the anglerfish...
Well, this is how big the males of the species actually are:
This is how big the anchor chains of a ship are:
Recently, a Russian drone attacked a gigantic radiation confinement tower at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, inflicting damage that required some repairs:
Here's a closer look at the people fixing the damage, to give you a better scale of the whole thing:
Speaking Chernobyl, this is the famous Azure Swimming Pool before the nuclear disaster...
And the same swimming pool today:
If you shine a black light on an Illinois driver's license, Abe Lincoln will be wearing a hat:
This is what a deviled ostrich egg looks like:
35 years ago, on February 14, 1990, the iconic 'Pale Blue Dot' photo was captured, showing Earth as a tiny speck from 3.7 billion miles away:
In 1990, the very first McDonald's opened up in the Soviet Union. This is how gigantic the line was:
Following the invasion of Ukraine, McDonald's sold its entire Russian operation to a Russian businessperson, resulting in over 800 restaurants being rebranded as "Delicious. Full Stop":
This is what the INSIDE of a chocolate-covered strawberry looks like:
This is what the back of a soda fountain looks like:
This is the first-ever photograph of an operation, taken in 1847 in Boston:
This is what a new pair of goggles looks like to a pair that was used frequently for a six months:
The tiny island of Zavikon is home to the world's shortest international bridge, spanning from the owner's house, located in Canada, to their backyard, located in New York:
This is the PAGEOS satellite being inflated in 1965 before being put into orbit the next year:
Some bars have... landing zones for the especially inebriated folks navigating the stairs:
There used to be cocaine in toothache drops:
And, finally, people were talking about climate change as long as 111 years ago:
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