34 Fascinating Photos Of Our Incredible World

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This is what New York City's Central Park looked like during the Great Depression: This picture, captured in 1933, showcases a range of "Hoovervilles," makeshift settlements created by the unemployed and named after President Herbert Hoover.

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This is what's underneath a fire hydrant:

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Emu eggs look like something out of Game of Thrones:

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In 1918, a suffragette offered the following advice “to young ladies” on marriage:

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This is a picture of the first-ever international tennis match at Wimbledon in 1883:

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A pair of giant panda twins were born last week in South Korea:

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Here's a closer look at them:

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This is what Antarctica looks like from space:

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The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:"Aeroplane," "taxi," and "loganberry." Some big ones in there.

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The world's oldest diving suit is absolutely terrifying:

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This is what the world's first domestic vacuum cleaner looked like in 1906:

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This is Venus the bulldog, the official mascot of the HMS Vansittart, a World War II destroyer in the Royal Navy:

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This is what the inside of a bungee cord looks like:

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This is Joseph C. Gayetty, the man who invented commercial toilet paper:

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It's worth noting that toilet paper from that era looked very, very uncomfortable:

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This is what cinnamon looks like fresh off the tree:

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This is what years and years of layers of graffiti looks like:

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There are avocados out there that just might be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen:

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This is Conrad Veidt, the man whose performance in the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs inspired the look of the iconic villain the Joker:

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This is what a 3-year-old Albert Einstein looked like:

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This is the Pesse canoe, the oldest boat on Earth:The boat is over 10,000 years old.

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This is a billboard that was posted outside of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a town established as a manufacturing site as part of the Manhattan Project:

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The Titanic had a gym on board. This is what it looked like:

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And this is what one of the exercise bikes inside the Titanic gym looked like:

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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:

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This is what it looked like in 1937 on the first day cars were allowed on the Golden Gate Bridge:

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This is what the capstone on the top of an ancient Egyptian pyramid looked like:

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That capstone in particular belonged to the ruined black pyramid of Amenemhat III. Here's what the pyramid looks like today:

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This is Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls while inside a barrel:She was 62 years old at the time. People going over waterfalls in a barrel fell off real hard. We should bring it back.

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This is a picture of the opening of the very first New York City subway back in 1904:

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Fingers can grow back. FINGERS CAN GROW BACK:

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People used to move houses with a whole bunch of horses:

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This picture, taken in 1882, shows the Statue of Liberty in the early stages of its construction in France:

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This is William Hutchings, one of the last surviving American Revolutionary War veterans:He was 100 in this picture.

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People were talking about climate change as long as 111 years ago: