My Dumb Little Brain Is Completely Blown After Seeing These 21 Absolutely Incredible Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week
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1.This is Big Jake, the world's tallest horse:
Big Jake was 6 feet 11 inches and weighed 2,600 pounds. He died last year, sadly.
2.And this is the world's tallest statue, the Statue of Unity:
It's located in India and is 600 feet high.
3.This particular breed of sheep, known as hissar, is famous for its large, ample buttocks:
As you can plainly see.
4.In 2011, Peter Glazebrook grew the world's largest onion, which weighed in at 18 pounds:
Adorable.
5.And here's my man again in 2015 at the World's Heaviest Marrow competition with his 115-pound big boy:
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6.This is a close-up of some well-worn pebbles on the surface of Mars:
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7.This is Samantha Ramsdell, the woman with the world's largest mouth gape:
It measures 2.56 inches in width.
8.This is how big Greenland actually is compared with how big it appears on most maps:
Still kinda big, but not gigantic.
9.Before CGI, this is how MGM filmed its iconic movie intro:
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You know, this one:
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10.This right here is what one of the Titanic's lifeboats looked like before the passengers were rescued:
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11.This is how big Plymouth Rock is in real life:
Hmm. Hmm.
12.This is a picture from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Can you spot Abe?
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13.There's a movie theater in Switzerland that lets you rent out beds to watch a movie in:
Thoughts on this, folks?
14.In 1964, Randy Gardner, pictured here, set the world record for the longest time without sleeping after staying awake 264 hours:
Those items next to him are objects he would identify throughout the experiment to show he was still lucid.
15.This is what 1,500 Jenga pieces balancing on one single piece look like:
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16.This is what the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, looked like from the ground:
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17.This is what a 100-sided die looks like:
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18.In the early 1950s, the A.C. Gilbert Co. sold a children's toy called the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab. It contained actual radioactive material, encouraging children to create their own nuclear reactions. It was quickly taken off the shelves:
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19.This is the Barringer crater, an enormous crater created in Arizona by a meteor 50,000 years ago:
You see those tiny, tiny cars on the edge of the crater?
20.This year, the Pabst Brewing Co. sold an 1,844-can pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon to commemorate the beer's founding in 1844:
I will be drinking this when the USA wins the World Cup.
21.And, finally, there's an ancient Egyptian statue at the Field Museum in Chicago that looks just like Michael Jackson:
This is essential knowledge.