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The United States once had a $10,000 bill, the largest denomination of US currency ever produced for public use:
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This is what Bob Ross looked like before he had his iconic hair-do:
And here’s what Bob looked like as a young kid, just for good measure:
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This is a picture of the ice mountains of Pluto as seen from the New Horizons space probe:
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Also, while we’re at it, this is how big Pluto is compared to North America:
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These bad boys are the oldest pair of pants ever discovered, dating back to over 3000 years ago:
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A school bus looks like a tiny little baby next to a haul truck:
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Here’s a haul truck next to a normal sized human:
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There’s a beer bottle at 35,000 feet down into the deepest point on Earth, the Challenger Deep:
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You’re probably familiar with the front of King Tut’s iconic death mask:
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Well, this is what the back looks like:
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You’re probably familiar with a blob fish, that lovable kinda-human-looking fish with the super weird face:
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Well, this is what a blob fish looks like in its natural environment, before its been subjected to immense changes in pressure:
And, again, we all know Mount Rushmore:
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But have you seen the back? This is what Mount Rushmore looks like from behind:
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This isn’t a distant sun or a far-away galaxy — it’s a photo of a single atom’s incredibly tiny shadow:
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You can spell BILLIE EILISH on a calculator:
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This is what Buenos Aires looked like after Argentina won the 2022 World Cup last year:
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This totally safe device was known as a baby cage, a wire cage suspended out of an apartment window meant to give babies born in cities extra light and air:
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Tourists used to be able to freely climb up the Great Pyramid of Egypt to sunbathe and have tea parties:
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Really tiny single person benches exist:
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This is what the inside of the White House looked like when it was under construction in the late 1940s:
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This fellah here is a Japanese Spider crab (who, hand to God, is named Big Daddy), a species of crab that can grow to be 12 feet across:
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And, finally, a billion is really, really, really, really, big: