I'm Pretty Sure My Dumb Little Brain Just Completely Short-Circuited After Seeing These 25 Absolutely Mind-Blowing Photos This Week
Imagine swallowing that. Would feel great.
Michelangelo's David is VERY, VERY big:
Very big, indeed.
This awe-inspiring sight is a potato storage facility. That's a five-foot shovel, for reference:
Nature is so beautiful.
This is Robert Wadlow, the tallest man who ever lived, towering above everyone else at 8'11'':
Can you tell which one is him?
This assortment of nails, buttons, safety pins, and more is the stomach content of a patient with pica, a disorder that causes a strong urge to eat nonfood items:
They were all found inside a patient post-autopsy.
This is Dr. James Naismith, the man who invented basketball at the age of 32:
He was a graduate student at Springfield College, tasked with getting young men to be active. Let this be a lesson to you: if you don't invent a sports by the age of 32, you are BLOWING IT.
And here's what is apparently the first EVER basketball team:
Dr. Naismith is there in the suit. Surrounding him is John G. Thompson, Eugene S. Libby, Edwin P. Ruggles, William R. Chase, T. Duncan Patton, Frank Mahan, Finlay G. MacDonald, William H. Davis and Lyman W. Archibald. Now THOSE are some old-timey names. I think the Raptors would hang 1200 on them.
And this picture, from the early 1900s, shows an early basketball game, kneepads and all:
Josh Hart would make that man CRY.
This, in all its glory, is a meeting of the US Board of Tea Experts. They're, well, testing teas for sale in the USA:
Oh, to be a fly on the wall at the old-dudes-tasting-tea party.
This is a detailed map showing just how far the Mars Opportunity Rover traveled in its 15 years on the planet:
While we're on the subject, this is the first picture Opportunity took on the surface of Mars...
And this is the last:
Well, one of the final few. Goodnight, sweet prince.
This is how some scientists tested the effectiveness football helmets in the 1950s — by banging themselves in the head with a heavy object:
I'd imagine it's always a long, long day at the heavy-object-head-banging factory.
This is what an elephant's tail looks like up-close:
Would love to floss my teeth with one of those strands. Right folks?
This is Diane Stopky, winner of International Posture Queen in 1957, posing with her award-winning spine:
Diane — congrats on the spine.
Some ladybugs are born without spots:
Not so lucky now, are ya?
In 1918, over 30,000 soldiers came together to make a giant human-shield:
This is what life before the Nintendo Switch was like.
Before exposure times were significantly reduced, people sitting for photographs sometimes used a small device to support their head and ease neck strain:
Need to bring these back.
This is what happens if you put a highlighter in the microwave:
In case you were wondering.
This is what a frozen egg looks like without its shell:
Incredible.
Some grasshoppers are pink! This is due to erythrism, a condition where an animal's coloring is especially red due to excess red pigmentation:
Neat!
This is what 1000 shirts stacked on top of each other looks like:
This is the eight-year-old bodybuilder Patricia O'Keefe, carrying a 200-pound man on her back:
For reference: she's 64 pounds, he's 200.
High voltage lines are, well, really high voltage. They can even melt concrete if they hit the ground:
That would probably hurt. Probably.
And I'd be remiss if I didn't add a picture of a very, very tiny frog to one of these lists. Look how tiny this little guy is:
Toodle-oo!
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