1.This is what Albert Einstein's desk looked like the day he died:
2.This is how incredibly small a hummingbird feather is:
3.This picture, taken in 1925, shows the passengers on an Imperial Airways flight watching one of the first in-flight movies ever:
4.This is Stephen Taylor, the man with the world's longest tongue:
5.On Feb. 7, 1984, Bruce McCandless II performed the first-ever untethered space walk, and folks, it looks absolutely terrifying:
6.Before you could just put everything into the Notes app on your iPhone, some people used metal grocery lists to do their shopping:
7.Some chickens lay eggs with white yolks:
8.This is what a $1,000 bill looks like:
9.This is the safety net that was installed under the Golden Gate Bridge during its construction in the 1930s. The net saved 19 people through the duration of the work:
10.In 1731, King Frederick I of Sweden was gifted with a lion that, after its death, he sent to be stuffed and preserved. The only issue was that the people doing the taxidermy had never actually seen a lion. This, the Lion of Gripsholm Castle, is the finished product:
11.Speaking of terrible taxidermy and fossil reconstruction, this is the Magdeburg Unicorn, quite possibly the worst fossil reconstruction ever:
12.This is what a baby pigeon looks like:
13.This is the pistol Gavrilo Princip used to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand and set off World War I:
14.This colorized picture of Ramses II's Great Temple at Abu Simbel in Egypt, taken circa 1865, shows just how enormous the colossal statues in front of the entrance are:
15.Here's another angle:
16.While we're on the subject of incredible Egyptian art, this is a 3,000-year-old ancient Egyptian painter's palette, complete with six different colors:
17.This X-ray, taken by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, is the first X-ray ever:
18.This is Steven Spielberg on top of Bruce, the animatronic shark that, well, played Jaws in Jaws:
19.This is Emma Morano, the last living person to have been born in the 1800s:
20.This is what Chicago's Eureka Building looked like after a winter fire was put out by the Fire Department:
21.And, finally, cars in Canada's Northwest Territories have polar bear license plates:
