Chris
You know that feeling when you’re scrolling through the internet, fully prepared to waste some time, and then—BAM!—you stumble across something so mind-blowing it practically reboots your brain? Yeah, that’s what this post is all about. Trust me, you’re about to see the world in a way you never have before.
From crazy natural wonders to human ingenuity doing its thing, these images will leave you wondering how you’ve gone this long without seeing them. So buckle up for a virtual adventure that’ll make you the most interesting person in your group chat—because after this, you’ll have all the fun facts and visuals to blow everyone’s minds, not just your own!
1. This is what a bird getting an x-ray looks like:
2. This is what a snowflake looks like under an electron microscope:
3. After 12 years on Mars, the Curiosity rover has a big hole in one of its wheels:
4. This is what an ostrich without feathers looks like:
5. This is what the inside of a grenade looks like:
6. Uranium glass glows under UV light:
7. The different ways to say something like “It’s the bee’s knees” in various languages are incredible:
8. If you ever look at your airplane window and see this, it means a pilot is dumping fuel:
9. This is the first digital picture ever created, a close-up of engineer Russell Kirsch’s son Walden from 1957:
10. This is what the inside of a commercial airplane looked like in 1926:
11. Here’s another cabin of an airplane from around the same time period:
12. There’s a highway built on top of apartment buildings in Guiyang City, China:
13. This is what it looked like while Abraham Lincoln’s face was under construction during the making of Mount Rushmore:
14. After World War I, a bunch of officers got together to pay tribute to the fallen horses lost in battle:
15. These are the “Stairs of Death,” an extremely steep staircase located in Peru’s Huayna Picchu:
16. Cashews grow on trees like this:
17. This is what the inside of a water tower looks like:
18. This is a map of where you can find Venus flytraps in the wild:
19. This is what a six foot block of cheese looks like:
20. This is what a $100 bill looked like in 1977, 2003, and 2017:
