31 Truly Fascinating Photos For Your Consideration

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"Computer graphics in 1998 compared to Present day."

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This is what $1,600 in one dollar bills looks like:

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There's a golf course right next to the Great Pyramid of Giza:

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This, to scale, is how far apart the Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy are:FYI, the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across.

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This is how big Japan is compared to the east coast of the United States:

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In 1909, pigs finally flew. Icarus the pig (right) went on a short flight with John Moore-Brabazon and finally did the impossible:

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This is what the line to the summit of Mount Everest looks like:

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This is what the line to the summit of Mount Everest looks like:

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just took some brand new pictures of Uranus. Here's what one of the new photos looks like:

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45-foot-long phone chargers exist:

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This is what a first class seat on Singapore Airlines looks like:

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John Quincy Adams was the first US president ever photographed. Here he is in 1840, more than a decade after his presidency:

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This is the world's first skyscraper, the 10-story Home Insurance Building located in Chicago:The absolutely gargantuan skyscraper was built in 1885 and torn down in 1931.

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Fiat once had a car factory with a working test track on the roof:

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This is a gold watch that belonged to a passenger on the Titanic. It stopped as the ship sank:

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This is what the moon looks like in the northern hemisphere...0

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And this is what the moon looks like in the southern hemisphere. It's upside-down:

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And, finally, this is Buzz Aldrin taking humanity's first "space selfie" while on an EVA spacewalk in 1966:

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“The Joker is jump-starting a woman’s car.”

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“I fell asleep with my hand tucked between my knees.”

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“This guy riding a motorcycle has a shirt of him riding his motorcycle.”

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“Found a dandelion in the park today. She had no idea.”

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“Saw this cat fueling up off of the interstate. They’ve got the essentials, and are not looking back.”

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“My friend was watering and noticed something odd.”

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“Wild boar chilling with humans”

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“I saw this strange car today, also known as ‘ETV’ or ‘Extra-Terrestrial Vehicle’ (yes, seriously).”

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"Saudi Prince bought 80 seats on a plane for his 80 falcons."

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"Lab grown diamonds, before they are cut and polished"

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"An 11th century Viking well under a local shop in Dublin"

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"On November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was possible to see up to 100,000 meteors crossing the sky every hour. At the time, many thought it was the end of the world, so much so that it inspired this woodcut by Adolf Vollmy"

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"My barbershop still uses their original cash register from 1904."

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"The tomb of Qasr Al-Farid in a remote part of the Saudi Arabian desert dates from the 1st Century AD and was built by the Nabataean Kingdom, who also built Petra in Jordan. It remains largely unvisited"

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"Artists once turned stone into silk"

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"This oak tree was struck by lightning and split into three"

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"In India there is a tribe who learned to make living bridges out of ficus tree roots. They take 15-30 years to make, some are over 500 years old and 15-250 feet over rivers and gorges. Unlike normal bridges they grow stronger over time"

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"Saturn's moon, Mimas, looks identical to the Death Star. This is pure coincidence as Star Wars released in 1977, while the first high quality image of Mimas was taken in 1980."

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"The German Government recently announced its own Version of the US SPACE Force. This Picture is from the Opening Ceremony."

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This awesome wood carving of a German Shepherd.