My Tiny Little Peanut Brain Is Completely Blown After Seeing These 20 Incredibly Interesting Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week
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1.This is the last photograph ever taken of the Titanic:
It sunk three days later.
2.This is what a shark's brain looks like compared to a dolphin's brain:
u/fatallygreasy / Via reddit.com
3.This is María Branyas, a 115-year-old woman who just became the oldest living person on Earth as of January 17, 2023:
You can even follow her on Twitter.
4.If you take all the cookie dough out of your cookie dough ice cream and bake it, this is what it'll look like:
Honestly, looks great to me.
5.Texas makes Europe look super small:
Imagine if instead of the Texas Triangle, it was just the entire country of Austria, though. Somethin' to think about.
6.And, for a little perspective, this is what the entire United States looks like compare to just a small part of the planet Saturn's north pole:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill
7.This is what the Statue of Liberty looked like while it was under construction in France:
Alamy Stock Photo
8.This is what Albert Einstein's desk looked like on the day he died:
This was at Princeton University. And, no, I don't want any "netverk has gone kaputt" jokes in the comments.
9.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:
These are from the 1200s, folks! They were made on bark and found next to his homework.
10.Before production began on Bambi, live deer were brought into the studio to teach Disney artists how to properly draw them:
/ AP
11.This is one of the only pictures of President Andrew Jackson, taken shortly before his death in 1845:
/ Alamy Stock Photo
12.This is what the surface of Mars looked like on December 16, 2022:
It was taken by NASA's Perseverance rover.
13.The two people depicted in Grant Wood's American Gothic actually exist. This is what they looked like:
And, actually, they're not a couple. It's the artist's sister and his dentist.
14.This is what a completely empty CVS looks like:
u/bcjh / Via reddit.com
15.This is one of the first pictures of the Chernobyl power plant, taken hours after the initial disaster:
Igor Kostin / ASSOCIATED PRESS
16.Blue stop signs exist:
They're found on private property, generally.
17.This is what the first Walmart, located in Arkansas, looked like:
It's now a museum. A Walmart museum.
18.Sand does not stick to scars:
This is because scars don't sweat.
19.In the 1920s, some people used to wear face-covering swim masks, ostensibly to protect their skin from the sun's rays and not terrify the children during adult swim:
20.And, finally, the iPod is now in a museum:
This is a picture from the Smithsonian. Enjoy your day!