Yahoo Lifestyle My Jaw Is Actually Still Completely On The Floor After Seeing These 25 Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week
1.This is what a fish getting a CT scan looks like:
Specifically a French angelfish who had some buoyancy issues. The fish is all better now!
2.This is what a $100 bill looked like in 1977, 2003, and 2017:
Folks, do we stan the 2003 $100 bill?
3.Hedges can be absolutely massive:
I wish to stroke that hedge.
4.This is what the painting directly across from the "Mona Lisa" looks like:
It's "The Wedding at Cana" by Paolo Veronese. Which do you prefer?
5.Australia lets its citizens know exactly how their tax dollars are spent:
Neat!
6.Speaking of Australia, there's a whole lot of nothing:
Well, not nothing. Just not a lot of people.
7.Over 2,000 years ago, a child living in ancient Rome made this footprint in a clay tile while it was drying:
And I'm STILL mad at the kid.
8.This is what Bruce Lee's workout routine was in 1965:
Shoutout Bruce Lee.
9.This is what the start of a river looks like:
Otherwise known as a spring. This is the start of the Metolius River in Oregon.
10.This is what an x-ray of a six-fingered hand looks like:
11.This is what North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal, home to one of the world's last uncontacted peoples, looks like from above:
That means the people who live there have little to no contact with the rest of the world. If you want to read more about the Sentinelese, read all about 'em here.
12.This is what a tumbleweed looks like before, well, it tumbles:
Well, then.
13.This is what the "hand" of a manatee looks like:
Look at those little nails.
14.There are a whole bunch of trees on Earth that were planted with seeds that flew to the moon on Apollo 14:
They were brought to the moon by astronaut Stuart Roosa.
15.It cost just about $100 to give birth in 1956:
I think it costs $100,000 if you stub your toe today.
16.This glorious 1200 year old specimen is the biggest, best-preserved piece of human poop:
It's from a 9th-century Viking and apparently worth almost $40,000, too.
17.This is a hammer-headed bat, an absolutely enormous fruit bat with an average wingspan of over three feet:
Look, buddy, I love you...but you gotta stay away from me.
18.Speaking of gigantic animals, check out the size of this here lobster claw:
Say it with me, folks: That's a big claw.
19.This is what a condom from the 1700s looked like:
Not naming any names, but it reminds me of a certain Viking's poop.
20.This is the executioner robe and axe of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, the official executioner of the Papal States in the 1800s:
He executed over 500 people.
21.This is a display of ancient Egyptian furniture, from sometime around 1,500 BCE:
Who knew that humanity perfected furniture so long ago?
22.This is the Brewster armor suit, one of the first fully functional suits of body armor designed for World War I combat:
All I'll say is, you better not let Gru see you wearing that.
23.This exhibit shows what happens to marble over time if people are allowed to stick their grubby little paws all over it:
The untouched marble is on the left, and the touched marble on the right.
24.This is the check for $7.2 million, issued Aug. 1, 1868, that the US sent to Russia for the purchase of Alaska:
Would love to personally receive $7 million from the US government one day.
25.And, finally, bolts? Bolts can be absolutely gigantic:
Imagine how cool it would be to screw one of these bad boys in. Wow.
