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This is what a human skeleton looks like compared to a gorilla skeleton:
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This is what a store bought egg looks like compared to an egg bought at a farmer’s market:
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This is what a husky looks like compared to a wolf:
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This is the top hat Abraham Lincoln wore the night he was assassinated:
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The small island in the middle of this picture is where Princess Diana is buried:
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The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:
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This is what a “fresh cup” of banana juice looks like:
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This is the size of a flag flown on a Spanish ship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1905:
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This is what a newborn baby hippo looks like:
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America is still very, very young:
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This is the heaviest building in the world, the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania:
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In the mid-1800s any of these things could get you admitted to a “lunatic asylum”:
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This is what a real, authentic plague mask from the 1500s looked like:
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Social Security cards used to not be a flimsy little piece of paper:
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This is what a pistachio looks like before it’s harvested and becomes the delicious nut we know and love:
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Hospitals have machines that allow doctors and nurses to see exactly where your veins are:
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Woolly mammoth tusks are absolutely enormous:
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Cooling towers have an open bottom:
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The Mars Curiosity rover is drilling a ton of holes on Mars. Here’s what 36 of them look like:
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And, finally, this is what a mass of DNA looks like:
