1.This is what Mount St. Helens looked like before it erupted in 1980, becoming the deadliest volcanic eruption in US history…
2.And this is what Mount St. Helens looked like after the 1980 eruption:
Absolutely decimated.
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3.This is what the blowhole on a humpback whale looks like:
It’s like a big nose. IT’S A BIG NOSE!
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4.This is what the Space Shuttle Endeavour looked like as it left Earth and traveled to outer space:
It looks like a little toy.
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5.This is Charlotte and Majorie Collyer, a mother and daughter who survived the wreck of the Titanic in 1912:
Charlotte’s husband and Majorie’s dad Harvey Collyer died in the wreck. Also lost in the tragedy was the family’s life savings of £5,000 cash.
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6.This is what the battleship USS Independence looks like outside of water:
Looks like it should be flying in outer space.
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7.This is what a turtle’s skeleton looks like:
Not sure what I expected, but it wasn’t this.
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8.This is what the inside of a hedge looks like:
It’s… it’s… a little tree. Don’t know why I never considered that.
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9.This picture, taken in 1925, is the last known photo of a Barbary lion in the wild:
Once prevalent across Northern Africa, the lion went extinct because of, you guessed it, humans.
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10.This is what the Statue of Liberty looks like from the back:
In case you were wondering.
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11.This is what one college student’s dorm room looked like in the 1910s:
Some absolutely scandalous wall decorations.
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12.Traffic lights are absolutely enormous:
13.This is what the bottom of a lily pad looks like:
Not nearly as pleasant to look at as the top.
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14.Niagara Falls froze over in 1883:
So, naturally, people did whatever people in 1883 did on top of the frozen falls.
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15.Curved escalators are a thing that exist:
16.This is the “American Candy” section in a British gas station:
I believe that all candy is good candy, but I think they could’ve done a better job here. Lots of low-tier Halloween trick-or-treat ones here.
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17.Speaking of which, this is what a freeze-dried Skittle looks like:
Apparently, they have the “texture of a Cheeto puff, but taste like Skittles.” I’m in.
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18.This is what Gutzon Borglum’s original model for Mount Rushmore looked like:
There’s still time to remedy this. We need giant coats on our big giant rock presidents.
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19.And, finally, in 1961, auditions were held for the role of the black cat in the film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat.” Lots of black cats showed up:
152 cats in total came out to vie for the role they were born to play.
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