Yahoo Lifestyle Alright, Literally Every Single One Of These Things I Just Found Out Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Week
1.This is the world's tallest statue, the Statue of Unity:
It's located in India and is 600 feet high.
2.And here's how big the TOES of the statue are:
Somebody get me Mr. Tarantino.
3.Before it became that iconic sign all us sign-heads know and love, the Hollywood sign read "Hollywoodland":
Bring back the "LAND" 2024.
4.This is what a pair of George Washington's dentures looked like:
They contained cow, human, and horse teeth. Stunt on 'em, George.
5.This is Pauline Musters, the shortest woman ever to live:
She was 24 inches tall when she died at the age of 19.
6.This is how large the statue of David's, uh, rear-end is:
My goodness.
7.This is how big everyone's favorite telescope, the Hubble Telescope, is:
KRGEAC The Hubble Space Telescope at the Lockheed assembly plant 8913987
8.This is how big the largest shark that ever lived, the Megalodon, was compared to a human:
I probably would win that fight, but I'm built different.
9.And here's how big the jaws of the Megalodon were compared to a human:
Again, I could take it.
10.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.
11.This is what the inside of a gas stove looks like:
Fire!
12.Emu eggs look like something straight out of Game of Thrones:
Finish Winds, George... and go Giants.
13.Lots of US presidents have spoken multiple languages — here's a list of every purportedly multilingual president:
Shoutout to the Little Magician and his Dutch prowess.
14.Hotels used to have to put up signs explaining that electricity is safe and not to be feared:
"The use of electricity for lightning is in no way harmful to health, nor does it affect the soundness of sleep."
15.In 1933, A.L. Kahn caught a 5,000-pound manta ray off the coast of Florida:
And then he brought it to New Jersey, naturally.
16.Those orange pylons in football end zones have so much technology in them that they require fans to operate:
I can't even make a joke about NFL officiating. The Giants have killed my spirit.
17.This is what an anaconda looks like in the wild:
I'd only ever seen one in that documentary with J.Lo and Jon Voight. They can be upward of 30 feet long.
18.If you get a perfect score on the ACT, you receive this letter:
And if you get everything wrong, they throw you in a dumpster.
19.Gallstones can get really, really big:
I don't enjoy the way this picture makes me feel so I thought I'd share.
20.This little old thing of unimaginable horrors is a tapeworm under a microscope:
I think I'd call him Kevin.
21.This is what a toucan's skeleton looks like:
Not sure what I was expecting.
22.And, finally, if you wear your Crocs out in the sun for too long you'll get a wonderful little Croc tan:
Nature is amazing.
