1.This painting by Leonardo da Vinci is the most expensive painting ever sold:
2.This is what a license plate from Antarctica looks like:
3.This is Rumeysa Gelgi, the world's tallest woman:
4.Kids used to play on playgrounds that were unfathomably dangerous:
5.This is Ham the chimpanzee, the first ape launched into space:
6.This is Maurice Tillet, a wrestler who some say the beloved character Shrek was based on:
7.This is a wax sculpture of Thomas Wedders, the man whose 7-and-a-half-inch nose was apparently the largest nose in history:
8.Here's a list of every named generation going back to the 1400s:
9.Astronauts aboard the International Space Station can and do vote, and they even have a little voting booth aboard they go into:
10.Human touch really does a doozy on any and every kind of surface:
11.This is how much every act performing at Woodstock in 1969 was paid:
12.Before he was James Bond, Sean Connery competed in the Mr. Universe pageant in 1953:
13.This is how big the engines on the Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon were compared to engineer Wernher von Braun:
14.This rock formation, located in Finland, is known as Kummakivi. It's apparently been balancing like this for 12,000 years:
15.During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, some churches handed out little self-serve communion kits:
16.This is just a small sample of what researchers found in King Tut's tomb after discovering it in 1922:
17.This picture straight out of Harold Potter is of the former Cincinnati Public Library, built in 1874 and demolished in 1955:
18.This is what the head of an ant looks like super, super close up:
19.This thing here is a sculpture of a cucumber from the Egyptian Middle Kingdom:
20.This is the letter former Duke basketball coach, Coach K, sent Michael Jordan upon learning he was going to the University of North Carolina:
21.Before alarm clocks, people known as Knocker-Ups would get paid to go around in the early hours of the morning and bang on windows to wake people up:
