This is what an average children's playground looked like in 1908:
This is a Japanese painting from 1854 of an American:
It's of Commander Henry Adams and was made during the Perry expedition to Japan, an expedition that forced Japan to open up to international trade.
Here's a picture of what the subject of the drawing actually looked like:
Here's a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, pictured here in 1967, winning a stone-lifting contest in Germany:
It weighed over 500 pounds and had to be done with no warm-up. They didn't have TikTok. It's just what you did.
This absolute playboy is Jonathan the tortoise, the oldest known living land animal, who turned 192 years old last year:
This is the Terex 33-19 Titan, an absolute behemoth of a truck that was the largest in the world for multiple decades:
Here's what that same truck looks like with a, well, normal-sized truck on top of it:
This is the last meal Richard Nixon ate in the White House before he resigned. Pineapple, cottage cheese, and a glass of milk:
This is what a piece of fatty tuna looks like next to a piece of lean tuna:
This is what a tiger's paw looks like compared to a human hand:
There's a gigantic bridge between Denmark and Sweden, the Oresund Bridge, that goes completely underwater at one point:
This is a rare natural phenomenon known as a brinicle. It's a salty underwater icicle that freezes everything it touches:
Helmets are very, very important:
There's a place in Antarctica known as "Blood Falls," a spooky looking formation that looks like a waterfall made out of, well, blood:
Hummingbird feathers are very, very tiny:
This is what one of the only surviving suits of elephant armor looks like:
This particular set dates back to 16th-century India. If I was a soldier and saw this coming at me, I think I'd just turn around and pack it in.
If you're flying in a plane above Bahrain, you can see the entire country:
This ol' lumpy thing is the ball used in the 1930 World Cup final:
This is what an ASL word search looks like:
This is what it looks like when your entire bottle of glue dries before you can use it:
Somewhere out there are people with only one line on their hand:
This is what it looks like if you excavate and cook all the cookie dough in your ice cream:
And finally, this is what a tapeworm looks like under an electron microscope:
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