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They sell red Solo cups as “American party cups” in New Zealand:
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This is what some of the first New York City tour buses looked like in 1904:
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Champagne vending machines exist:
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This just might be the world record smallest hand-carved wooden spoon:
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Redwood trees are absolutely gigantic:
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Here’s another shot of a redwood tree absolutely towering over a car:
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This is the Queensland Stinger, one of the world’s most dangerous plants:
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This is how big the Democratic Republic of the Congo is compared to the east coast of the United States:
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This is the Murchison meteorite, a meteorite found in Australia that formed over seven billion years ago:
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This is what the big ol’ noggin of the Statue Of Liberty looks like from the torch:
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This is the Thanksgiving menu that was served at the Plaza Hotel in 1899:
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This is what an elephant’s tail looks like close up:
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And this is what one of those tail hairs looks like up close:
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This is apparently a set of “instructions for new mothers” given to new moms in the 1940s:
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These are the shoes (well, shoe) Marie Antionette wore to her execution during the French Revolution:
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Speaking of 18th and 19th century French history, Napoleon’s hat recently sold at auction for 2.1 million dollars:
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Chickens can occasionally lay soft, smooshy eggs with no shell:
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Moths can be REALLY, REALLY big:
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Here’s a list of every named generation going back to the 1400s:
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This is what a receipt for a Model T car looked like in 1919:
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This enormous disk is what 10 MB of data looked like in the 1960s:
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And corn, my friends, corn can grow very strangely:
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