21 Extremely Rare Historical Pictures And Other Fascinating Photos That Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Week

1. This is how big an average polar bear is compared to a human:

2. And to make things even more terrifying, this is how big a polar bear's paw is compared to a human hand:

3. This is how big the Statue Of Liberty's face is compared to a person:

This is a full-sized replica. Tell me, would you give her a little smooch?

4. This picture, from Abraham Lincoln's funeral, has a special guest. In the second story window shown here is a young Teddy Roosevelt:

Neat!

5. This is what a completely empty airplane looks like:

This makes me more uncomfortable than actually flying on an airplane.

6. This is how big a bar of $26,000 worth of gold is:

Think of all the places you could shove it.

7. And this is what $700 worth of platinum looks like:

According to MoneyMetals.com, platinum is currently $34.79 per gram.

8. This is Mary Ann Bevan, a widow who was given the title of "World's Ugliest Woman" in 1920:

After the death of her husband and being diagnosed with a rare disease, Mary Ann joined circus sideshows to support her several children. You can read more about her incredible story here.

9. This picture was taken shortly after David Scott and Neil Armstrong's Gemini 8 space capsule landed in the Pacific Ocean:

Some cool-looking extra-terrestrial dudes.

10. This is what the inside of the Leaning Tower of Pisa looks like:

So empty.

11. This is what Harriet Tubman looked like in old age:

12. In 2020, an Austrian town with a very provocative name voted to change its name to a much more family friend version:

You can see the before and after here.

13. This is what the American snacks section in an Australian grocery store looks like:

Nerds... Bugles... Reeses... Takis... I respect it.

14. This is a room full of competitors at the 1980 Space Invaders video game world championships:

This is what true competition looks like.

15. This painting shows the devastating effects centuries of cigarette smoke has on art:

One half has been restored while the other has not.

16. This is the first picture of the Moon ever taken:

It's from 1840. Looks like cheese to me.

17. This is what the Golden Gate Bridge looked like while under construction:

It's from 1936 and looks quite peaceful.

18. This is a picture of a newly built telephone tower, complete with a ridiculous amount of wires, in Sweden, circa 1886:

You could've convinced me one of them Spider-Men got to it.

19. This is what the inside of a quarter looks like:

Not sure what I expected, but definitely not that it'd look like a car cigarette lighter.

20. This is what a handful of peanuts look like if you let them sprout:

Looks like something out of my deepest, darkest, peanutiest nightmares.

21. And, finally, is the entrance exam for MIT circa 1870:

Good news mom! I got into MIT. In 1870.