Alex Buscemi
Sometimes, a single photo can make you stop and rethink what you thought you knew.
This collection of fascinating photos is full of curious moments and odd pictures from history that you won’t believe actually happened.
Each interesting photo offers a little moment of surprise or wonder, making you look twice and question what’s going on.
So, if you’re in the mood for having your mind blown — these fascinating pictures might just change the way you see the world.
1. This is how tiny a hummingbird’s feather is compared to a penny:
2. This is what a chimpanzee’s hand looks like up close:
3. NASA gave some spiders a bunch of different drugs and recorded how it changed the way they made webs:
4. NASA gave some spiders a bunch of different drugs and recorded how it changed the way they made webs:
5. This is what Antarctica would look like if all its ice melted:
6. Baby owls sleep facedown, on their stomachs:
7. These are some of several disguises that US Intelligence thought Adolph Hitler would use if he managed to go into hiding after World War II
8. You’re definitely familiar with King Tutankhamun’s gold funerary mask, but did you know that the masks of other pharaohs have been found? This is the mask of the pharaoh Amenemope, circa 1000 BC:
9. NASA recently captured one of the clearest pictures of Jupiter yet:
10. This painting, “First Communion,” was made by Pablo Picasso when he was only 15 years old:
11. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in Ancient Rome, the explosion carbonized several loaves of ancient Roman bread:
12. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in Ancient Rome, the explosion carbonized several loaves of ancient Roman bread:
13. Some parking garages have lights to let you know which spots are available and which are occupied:
14. This is the last picture ever taken of President Ulysses S. Grant, snapped days before his death at his home:
15. Sometimes tadpoles can either not mature into adult frogs or get very, very huge:
16. This is Emma Lilian Todd, the first woman to design an airplane:
17. This is a Chinese Water Deer, a deer that evolved to have tusks instead of antlers:
18. Horseshoe crabs have blue blood that’s harvested for medical testing:
19. This is what Mount Everest looks like from the window of a plane:
20. Some bees are blue
21. This is the world’s tallest statue, the Statue of Unity: It’s located in India and is 600 feet high.
22. And here’s how big the TOES of the statue are:
23. Before it became that iconic sign all us sign-heads know and love, the Hollywood sign read “Hollywoodland”:
24. This is Pauline Musters, the shortest woman ever to live: She was 24 inches tall when she died at the age of 19.
25. This is how big everyone’s favorite telescope, the Hubble Telescope, is:
26. This is how big the largest shark that ever lived, the Megalodon, was compared to a human:
27. This is how big the largest shark that ever lived, the Megalodon, was compared to a human:
28. One of the biggest fads of the 1950s was “phonebooth stuffing,” where-in a bunch of people would, well, stuff themselves into a phonebooth: The world record at the time was 25 people stuffed into a phone booth. Truly an example of the triumph of the human spirit.
29. This is what the inside of a gas stove looks like:
30. Emu eggs look like something straight out of Game of Thrones:
31. Hotels used to have to put up signs explaining that electricity is safe and not to be feared:
32. In 1933, A.L. Kahn caught a 5,000-pound manta ray off the coast of Florida:
33. If you get a perfect score on the ACT, you receive this letter:
34. Gallstones can get really, really big:
35. This little old thing of unimaginable horrors is a tapeworm under a microscope:
36. And, finally, if you wear your Crocs out in the sun for too long you’ll get a wonderful little Croc tan:
H/T eBaum’s World
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