36 Fascinating Photos To Pique Your Interest

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"This man, Gay Jewel, was declared the "world's heaviest man" in 1899:"

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"This is what the end of 13,000 miles of the Great Wall of China looks like:"

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"This adorable little thing is a hummingbird's feather:"

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"This is what an elephant's tail looks like close up:"

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"And this is what one of those tail hairs looks like up close:"

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"Pilots get special cups on airplanes:"

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"This is what a completely empty CVS store looks like:"

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"This is what the Mayan temple at Chichen Itza looked like before it was restored:"

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"And this is what it looks like today:"

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"Have you ever looked closely at the backs of a cat's legs? There are whiskers there called carpal whiskers:"

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"A fire alarm is...just a switch!"

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"Black paper towels exist:"

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"This is what a 30-year-old cat looks like:"

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"Lemons float, limes sink. LEMONS FLOAT, LIMES SINK!"

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"See that little hole there? This is what Mount Vesuvius looks like from space:"

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"This enormous disk is what 10 MB of data looked like in the 1960s:"

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"This is a piece of uranium glassware, a special kind of glass that glows under a blacklight because of the uranium added when the glass was being made:"

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"A normal-size piece of paper looks incredibly tiny when held by Shaq:"

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"Just last week the world population surpassed 8 billion humans. 8 BILLION!"

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"This, wicker chairs and all, is what the interior of a plane looked like in 1925:"

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"This absolute unit is the largest bird to have ever existed, Argentavis magnificens:" "It had a 22-foot wingspan and weighed over 150 pounds."

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"And, just for good measure, this is the world's smallest bird, the bee hummingbird:"

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"This is Margaret Gorman, the woman who won the very first Miss America competition in 1921:Closeup of Margaret Gorman"

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"They sell red solo cups as "American party cups" in New Zealand:"

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"UPS drivers have special UPS socks as part of their uniform:"

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"This is the world's oldest surviving photograph, taken by Nicéphore Niépce in 1827:" "It's called "View from the Window at Le Gras." It's, well, a view from a window."

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"Here's what the original, un-enhanced world's oldest picture looks like today:"

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"Every single letter in the alphabet appears in a least one US state...except for the letter Q:"

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"Baby zebras are born with brown stripes before they eventually turn black:"

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"This is a screenshot of the Silk Road, the infamous black market on the dark web, before it was taken down:"

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"This is what the Eiffel Tower looked like as it was being built:"

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"This is a picture from Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration in 1865. Can you spot him?"

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"Speaking of Lincoln, this man, Valentine Tapley, vowed in 1860 to never cut his beard again if Abraham Lincoln was elected president. Here's him in 1896:" "He won 5th place at a World's Longest Beard competition that year."

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"And, again, just for good measure, here's Hans N. Langseth, winner of the world's longest beard competition in 1922:"

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"And, lastly, uh, apparently, some people can do this:"