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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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