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This is Ruth Malcolmson, the woman who won the 1924 Miss America pageant:
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There's a bird that looks JUST like Danny DeVito:
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This is what a 4,500-pound block of cheese looks like:
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The world's verified oldest woman just had a birthday last month:
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This bad boy is Zach T. Wilcox, owner of the world's longest beard, in 1922:
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This is what a piece of the moon and a piece of Mars look like:
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Slang may just have peaked in the Victorian era:
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This painting by Leonardo da Vinci is the most expensive painting ever sold:
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This boat, known as Boomin' Beaver, is apparently the smallest ship in the US Navy:
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This is what a Twix that hasn't been dipped in chocolate looks like:
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This is what a stairwell that doesn't loop around and only goes in one direction looks like:
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This right here is a baby platypus, known as a "puggle":
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The most points you can get for a word in Scrabble, specifically for the word "oxyphenbutazone," is 1,778:
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This is how condoms were tested in the 1930s:
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You can tell the difference between cheap pasta and expensive pasta by looking at them:
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This is the Hoba meteorite, the largest meteorite on Earth:
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Hammerhead sharks look absolutely terrifying in X-ray form:
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This is what the inside of a wind turbine blade looks like:
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Some children's doctor's offices put doorknobs up super high on doors so children can't "escape":
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This is what a license plate from Antarctica looks like:
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And, finally, this proposed design for a "female urinal" looks...not...great:
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This is what a turtle getting an X-ray looks like:
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This is the view from the toilet on the 155th floor of the United Arab Emirates' Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world:
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Hail can be really, really, really big:
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Entire houses can be moved on the back of a truck:
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This is what a smoker's window looks like compared with a nonsmoker's window:
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This is what the inside of a walnut tree looks like:
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The picture, from 1930, shows what the Empire State Building looked like while it was under construction:
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This 65-foot-tall behemoth is the world's largest sandcastle, built in Denmark in 2021:
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Maple leaves...maple leaves can be very, very tiny:
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This is how big Plymouth Rock is in real life:
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This is one of the world's largest offshore gas platforms, the Troll A platform, located in Norway:
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This particular breed of sheep, known as Hissar or Gissar, is famous for its large, ample buttocks:
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This is what a completely empty CVS store looks like:
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See that little hole there? This is what Mount Vesuvius looks like from space:
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This is what a counterfeit $50 bill (on top) looks like compared with a real one:
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These are the real-life outfits doctors would wear to treat plague patients in the 1600s:
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This is what a pineapple that has flowered looks like:
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This isn't a big ol' grape. It's the world's largest single-celled organism:
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And finally, every single letter in the alphabet appears in at least one US state...except for the letter "Q":
