Okay, These 25 Absolutely Fascinating And Mind-Blowing Pictures Just Completely Dismantled My Grasp On How The Entire World Works
The 1890s Coke holiday party probably went hard.
This was how big the cake for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip's wedding was:
It had four separate tiers and was over nine feet tall. I can neither confirm nor deny that it is an ice cream cake.
In 1962, three men escaped Alcatraz Island prison after fooling guards with papier-mâché decoy heads that looked like this:
Speaking of which, this is what the menu for Alcatraz prison looked like on March 13th, 1956:
Hot dogs... chili... banana pudding... not too shabby.
And, finally, here's what a typical Alcatraz cell looked like:
Actually very, very shabby.
This is one of the last pictures ever taken of President William McKinley, shot moments before he was assassinated in Buffalo, NY in 1901:
He was shot by Leon Czolgosz. RIP, Mac.
Two places on Earth had a 200-degree temperature difference last month:
Where would you rather be?
This is what the entrance exam to MIT looked like in 1869:
Please share your score in the comments.
This is a picture of the first Ferris Wheel ever, designed specifically for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair:
It was a big deal, folks.
Here's what the view looked like from it:
Lots of BEAMS.
This picture of a hairless chimpanzee really demonstrates just how absolutely yoked chimps are:
So if you were thinking of throwing hands with a chimp, think again.
Here's one more look at a jacked chimpanzee, because you deserve it:
That little fellah there is Charlie, one of the smallest horses to ever live:
Here's a closer look:
Thank you for everything, Charlie.
This is astronaut Dave Scott popping out of the command module for a brief spacewalk in 1969:
This is perhaps the first photo of people drinking beer ever taken, snapped in the 1840s:
Need to see the first ever picture of one dude hogging the jukebox, personally.
This photo from a Seattle lumberyard in 1919 show just how high stacks of lumber could go in those days:
It's as impressive as it is depressing.
In 2010, 30 intact champagne bottles were found inside a ship that had sunk in the Baltic Sea more than two centuries before, around 1780:
The champagne inside was still good and apparently "had a very sweet taste" and a "strong tobacco smell":
The other bottles of champagne were sold at auction for over $50,000. I think I'd have to pop about three to four antacids before I braved the 18th-century champagne.
This picture, taken in 1947 inside the "tube room" at a Chicago department store, shows the incredibly complicated and intricate series of tubes that would transport money and other papers between departments:
Would love to chill in the tube room.
This is what the "back" of the Hoover Dam looked like prior to being flooded with water:
And this is what that same side looks like today:
Wow...a lot more water. Who would've thought?
This shows the difference between two legs after an ankle break prevents weight-bearing on one:
Ouch.
Some people have visible rings around their eyes. They are apparently called contraction furrows, and are totally normal:
And very cool looking.
This is what a mobile home looked like in the 1930s:
Well, one mobile home. Looks like the opposite of comfy.
And, finally, during World War II, the US military handed out a guide for American soldiers serving in Britain. This is a small excerpt of what it said:
Some valuable advice there.
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