1.This is a model of a Gigantopithecus, the largest ape to ever live:
And while we're talking apes, this is what a chimpanzee's hand looks like up close:
2.This is what New York City's Central Park looked like during the Great Depression:
3.This is what the McDonald's menu looked like in the 1960s:
4.This painting, "First Communion," was made by Pablo Picasso when he was only 15 years old:
5.This is what a 3-year-old Albert Einstein looked like:
6.Playgrounds were extremely dangerous in the early 1900s:
7.This is how many wildfires there are burning in the United States and Canada right now:
8.This is what a solar eclipse looks like from space:
9.This is the last picture ever taken of President Ulysses S. Grant, snapped days before his death at his home:
10.The Titanic had a gym on board. This is what it looked like:
And this is what one of the exercise bikes inside the Titanic gym looked like:
11.This is Wendy Thomas, the daughter of Wendy's founder Dave Thomas and the namesake of the restaurant:
12.Held in 1903, this is what the first ever Tour de France looked like:
13.This is what's underneath a fire hydrant:
14.This is Conrad Veidt, the man whose performance in the 1928 film The Man Who Laughsinspired the look of the iconic villain the Joker:
15.This is the Pesse canoe, the oldest boat on Earth:
16.In 1990, the very first McDonald's opened up in the Soviet Union. This is how gigantic the line was:
Following the invasion of Ukraine, McDonald's sold its entire Russian operation to a Russian businessperson, resulting in over 800 restaurants being rebranded as "Delicious. Full Stop":
17.This is what the passenger cabin on a Pan Am flight in the 1940s looked like:
18.Some of the Titanic's deck chairs were salvaged from the wreck. Here's what one of them looks like:
19.In 1908, huge crowds gathered in Boston to watch Harry Houdini jump off a bridge while tied up in chains:
20.This is what Times Square looked like in 1921:
21.This is Baldwin Street, the steepest street in the world:
22.In the 1930s, this face cone was proposed as a protective shield against rain and snow:
23.Speaking of other things that didn't catch on, this was a proposed firefighting suit designed to drench the wearer in water:
24.This is what Antarctica looks like from space:
25.This is what the world's first domestic vacuum cleaner looked like in 1906:
26.The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:
27.This is how big Earth is compared to Saturn:
28.This is the Ain Sakhri figurine, an 11,000-year-old sculpture that is the world's oldest depiction of sex:
29.This is what the inside of an elephant's foot looks like...
And this is what the inside of a human foot looks like:
30.This is Emma Lilian Todd, the first woman to design an airplane:
31.This is what a French beach looked like in 1925:
32.This is what the capstone on the top of an ancient Egyptian pyramid looked like:
That capstone in particular belonged to the ruined black pyramid of Amenemhat III. Here's what the pyramid looks like today:
33.Emu eggs look like something out of Game of Thrones:
34.In 1918, a suffragette offered the following advice “to young ladies” on marriage:
35.This is a picture of the first-ever international tennis match at Wimbledon in 1883:
36.The world's oldest diving suit is absolutely terrifying:
37.This is Venus the bulldog, the official mascot of the HMS Vansittart, a World War II destroyer in the Royal Navy:
38.This is what an X-ray of a pregnant dog looks like:
39.This is what the inside of a bungee cord looks like:
40.This is the USS Langley, the first United States aircraft carrier:
41.This is a billboard that was posted outside of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a town established as a manufacturing site as part of the Manhattan Project:
42.This is a picture of the opening of the very first New York City subway back in 1904:
43.The tiny island of Zavikon is home to the world's shortest international bridge, spanning from the owner's house, located in Canada, to their backyard, located in New York:
44.This is what it looked like in 1937 on the first day cars were allowed on the Golden Gate Bridge:
45.This is Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls while inside a barrel:
46.There used to be cocaine in toothache drops:
47.This picture, taken in 1882, shows the Statue of Liberty in the early stages of its construction in France:
48.This is William Hutchings, one of the last surviving American Revolutionary War veterans:
49.This is John Smith, a Chippewa man who was reported to be 137 years old at the time of his death:
50.Koalas have fingerprints that are extremely similar to human fingerprints:
51.This is what the Taco Bell menu looked like in 1973:
52.This silicon sphere is the roundest object in the world:
53.This is the scene inside a Chicago bar on Dec. 5, 1933, the day Prohibition was repealed:
54.This is what a turtle's skeleton looks like:
55.This is what a college dorm room looked like in the 1890s:
And here are two roommates palling around in a dorm room circa 1910:
56.This is how big a human hand is compared with a polar bear's footprint:
57.This is what the Panama Canal looked like while it was under construction:
58.This is what a mobile home looked like in the 1930s:
59.This is how many barrels of wine the French army supplied for its troops for the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I:
60.And, finally, this is what a 4,000-pound block of beautiful, delicious cheddar cheese looks like:
