Each and every one is better than the last .
1.This is what Chile looks like compared with Europe:
And this is how big Japan is compared with the East Coast of the United States:
2.This is what Netflix’s homepage looked like in 1999, one year after it launched:
3.This is what it looks like 16 stories beneath New York City:
4.This is the Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest plane in the world:
5.This picture, taken by Robert Cornelius in 1839, is generally accepted as the first “selfie”:
6.Speaking of which, Buzz Aldrin took humanity’s first “space selfie” while on a spacewalk in 1966:
7.This is Norma Smallwood, the winner of the 1926 Miss America pageant:
8.In 1972, astronaut Charles Duke left behind a picture of his family on the moon’s surface. It’s been there ever since:
9.This is how big a moose is compared with a van:
10.Mars is home to the tallest mountain in the solar system, the 72,000-foot-tall Olympus Mons:
Here’s a computer illustration of what Olympus Mons looks like from space:
11.There’s a golf course right next to the Great Pyramid of Giza:
12.This is what $1,600 in $1 bills looks like:
13.The “American section” of a German grocery store contains a lot of popcorn, hot sauce, and mustard:
14.This is what salt looks like under an electron microscope:
15.This is what a gym looked like two centuries ago in 1831:
16.This is the iconic log cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809:
17.This is how big the Hubble Space Telescope is compared with a few human beings:
18.Easter Bunny costumes were absolutely horrifying in the 1950s:
19.In the ’60s, you could buy a mail-order squirrel monkey for $18.95:
20.This is what a slice of meteorite looks like:
21.This is what the end of a rainbow looks like:
22.NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just took some brand-new pictures of Uranus. Here’s what one of the new photos looks like:
23.While we’re at it, here’s another new picture from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this time of Neptune:
24.There’s a bridge specifically for crabs in Christmas Island, Australia. A crab bridge. A cridge:
25.This is what Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” looks like in person:
26.This is what a medieval toilet looked like on the inside of a castle…
…and this is what it looked like on the outside:
27.This is what a soda bottle looks like before it’s inflated and filled with liquid:
28.This is a picture of a lifeboat filled withTitanicsurvivors being rescued and brought aboard theCarpathiafollowing the sinking of the ship:
29.Kiwi eggs are absolutely huge:
30.In 1909, pigs finally flew. Icarus the pig (right) went on a short flight with John Moore-Brabazon and finally did the impossible:
31.This is what a first-class seat on Singapore Airlines looks like:
32.John Quincy Adams was the first US president ever photographed. Here he is in 1840, more than a decade after his presidency:
33.This, my friends, is what a perfectly spherical egg looks like:
34.Speaking of eggs, horn sharks have very cool spiral egg cases:
35.This is the world’s first skyscraper, the 10-story Home Insurance Building, which was located in Chicago:
36.This is what a kidney stone looks like under an electron microscope:
37.This is Jack the baboon, a South African baboon who worked as a signalman at a railway station in the 1800s. During his almost decade of railway work, Jack never made a singlemistake:
38.This is what the moon looks like in the Northern Hemisphere…
…and this is what the moon looks like in the Southern Hemisphere. It’s upside down:
39.This, to scale, is how far apart the Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy are:
40.This is what the line to the summit of Mount Everest looks like:
41.This is Ahmet Ali Çelikten, a man who is generally considered to be one of the first Black pilots — and perhaps the veryfirst:
42.This 2,000-year-old Roman shoe looks like it could’ve been made today:
And this is what the bottom of that shoe just might look like:
43.Yes, 45-foot-long phone chargers exist:
44.Fiat once had a car factory with a working test track on the roof:
45.This is what stem cells look like after they’ve been collected and are ready to be transplanted:
46.The head of one of Portugal’s first and most notorious serial killers, Diogo Alves, was preserved in a jar after his death for “scientific study”:
47.Fingers with nerve damage won’t prune:
48.This is what the base of a wind turbine looks like before it’s filled with concrete:
49.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:
50.And, finally, this is a Javan rhino, an extremely endangered species of rhino of which there are only about 76 left on Earth:
