My Tiny Little Peanut-Sized Brain Just Got Completely Blown After Seeing These 19 Absolutely Incredible Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week
1.This is Norma Smallwood, the winner of the 1926 Miss America pageant:
Try as he might, old Calvin Coolidge couldn't rig the contest for his wife, Grace.
2.This is what it looks like 16 stories beneath New York City:
Specifically, this is what it looked like in 2013 during construction of the East Side Access tunnel. The project was completed this year.
3.There's a bridge specifically for crabs in Christmas Island, Australia. A crab bridge. A cridge:
Millions of these crabs migrate every year, and this bridge keeps 'em safe.
4.This is what Leonardo da Vinci's “The Last Supper” looks like in person:
Not sure what I expected, but it's definitely smaller. More like "The Last Amuse-Bouche," am I right?
5.This 2,000-year-old Roman shoe looks like it could've been made today:
Air Cicero? Air Crassus? Air Caligula? Yeah, Air Caligula.
6.And this is what the bottom of that shoe just might look like:
EXTREME GRIP.
7.This is what the base of a wind turbine looks like before it's filled with concrete:
Big! Very big!
8.This picture, taken by Robert Cornelius in 1839, is generally accepted as the first "selfie":
Basically, he probably took the first self-portrait ever. Bob had to sit for 15 minutes to get this picture.
9.This is how big the Hubble Space Telescope is compared with a few human beings:
This was taken in 1989, when the telescope was being prepared to be shot into space. Smaller or bigger than you thought?
10.This, my friends, is what a perfectly spherical egg looks like:
Truly awe-inspiring.
11.The "American section" of a German grocery store contains a lot of popcorn, hot sauce, and mustard:
The food trifecta our nation was built upon.
12.This is what a knife looks like after being sharpened over and over again for 30 years:
13.This is Ahmet Ali Çelikten, a man who is generally considered to be one of the first Black pilots — and perhaps the very first:
He first flew for the Ottoman Empire in World War I. His contemporaries included Eugene Bullard, the first Black military pilot from the United States.
14.Horn sharks have very cool spiral egg cases:
I mean, I think they're cool. You may not. Let's just remember that I am the one with the peanut brain here.
15.This is what stem cells look like after they've been collected and are ready to be transplanted:
Apparently they "smell like creamed corn." Yum!
16.Some towns have specific areas designated for online marketplace meetups:
So when you try to unload your old crusty Ikea lamp, you're safe 'n' sound.
17.During World War II, the "Mona Lisa" was packed away and removed from the Louvre to ensure its safety:
Hundreds of thousands of works of art were stolen throughout the war, with many of them lost forever.
18.This is the note former president George H.W. Bush left for incoming president Bill Clinton in the White House after Clinton defeated him in the 1992 presidential election:
It reads:
"Dear Bill,
When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too.
I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents have described.
There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. I'm not a very good one to give advice; but just don't let the critics discourage you or push you off course.
You will be our President when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well.
Your success now is our country's success. I am rooting hard for you.
Good luck — George"
19.And, finally, this is a Javan rhino, an extremely endangered species of rhino of which there are only about 76 left on Earth:
In actual good news, 10 years ago, there were only 50 Javan rhinos. As you can tell by his smile, my man up there is doing work.
