My Microscopic Little Pea Brain Is Totally Blown After Seeing These 21 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week
1.This is what the view of downtown Manhattan looked like from the Empire State Building the year it opened in 1931...
2.And this is what that same view looks like today:
I spy a couple more buildings.
3.Speaking of New York City, this home used to sit on West 84th Street and Broadway in 1874. It's also where Edgar Allen Poe (probably) wrote The Raven:
I don't need to show you a comparison picture but, I assure you, it does not look anything like this now on 84th street.
4.This, my friends, is what the inside of a bag of microwave popcorn looks like:
My brain can't handle this revelation.
5.This is how good Disney World is at hiding their rides, specifically the Haunted Mansion:
Shout out to the Disney corporation. You don't see people talking about them too often.
6.This is what a Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying animal ever recorded, looks like compared to a human:
If I'm a caveman, no offense to the Quetzalcoatlus, but I'm all set. Stay away from me and my rocks.
7.Speaking of giant extinct animals, this is how big the largest shark that ever lived, the Megalodon, was compared to a human:
That's a Megalodon up top and a Great White on the bottom.
8.This is what the control room on a British submarine looked like in the 1960s:
Looks simple enough.
9.This is a picture of 107-year-old Civil War veteran Bill Lundy posing with a fighter jet in 1955:
To be fair, there's some debate over Lundy's service in the army, but, wow, he must have seen a whole lot in life.
10.This is what a tumbleweed looks like before it...tumbles:
It's a bush. A BUSH!!!!!
11.The inside of a fire alarm is just a tiny little switch:
Not sure what I was expecting but, I mean, this is my tiny little peanut brain we're talking about here.
12.Notre Dame cathedral used to have a parking lot out front:
Neat!
13.This is the last picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever taken, snapped just one day before his death:
He was 63 years old in this picture.
14.And, just for fun, this is a picture of FDR as a baby:
STRONG style choices on display here from one of America's greatest presidents.
15.Here's a different perspective on Earth centered around Antarctica:
Obviously the proportions are a bit weird, but this is hurting my brain.
16.This is what a penguin's skeleton looks like:
Lookin' good.
17.This is Hannah Stilley Gorby, the oldest person to ever have been photographed:
I mean, she was the earliest, oldest person ever photographed. She was most likely born in 1746 and captured in this photo in 1840 at the age of 94.
18.This is Methuselah, the oldest tree in the world:
It's over 4,850 years old and located in eastern California. Folks, do we stan Methuselah, the ancient tree?
19.This is what the back of a bowling alley lane looks like:
Life's greatest mystery: revealed.
20.This is Ham, the first chimpanzee in space, enjoying a celebratory apple after successfully making it 160 miles above Earth:
Thank you for your service, Ham. Read more about our nation's hero here.
21.And, finally, stop signs can be very, very, very, very, very tiny:
It's a very polite sign.
