Chris
You ever fall into an internet rabbit hole and come out the other side feeling like your brain just got a software update? You’re about to.
We’re talking photos that stop you mid-scroll—wild nature stuff, bizarre human creations, and moments that make you go, “Wait, what?” No clickbait, just actual cool things you somehow haven’t seen until now. Get ready to look smart in the group chat for once.
1. This is the first digital picture ever created, a close-up of engineer Russell Kirsch’s son Walden from 1957:
2. This is how a lion gets a CT scan.
3. This is what a snowflake looks like under an electron microscope:
4. This is what the inside of a grenade looks like:
5. After 12 years on Mars, the Curiosity rover has a big hole in one of its wheels:
6. This is what an ostrich without feathers looks like:
7. Uranium glass glows under UV light:
8. The different ways to say something like “It’s the bee’s knees” in various languages are incredible:
9. If you ever look at your airplane window and see this, it means a pilot is dumping fuel:
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:
