Immerse yourself in a collection of 21 photographs that promise both captivation and amusement.
This is what an early design for an electric hair dryer looked like:
A medium-sized shirt in North America is an extra large in Japan:
This is the pistol Gavrilo Princip used to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand and set off World War I:
And this is the car Franz Ferdinand was driving in:
Wine vending machines are a thing in Austria:
Here’s another early hair dryer:
It was so cold in Calgary, Alberta, last week that the entire city was smoking:
This is what an Italian public school lunch looks like:
This is what Robert Wadlow, the tallest man who ever lived, looked like when he was 10 years old:
This is him standing tall at 6 feet 6 inches next to his father.
Here’s what he looked like on a plane:
And here’s Wadlow at his tallest, coming in at 8 feet 11 inches:
This is a list of every cause of death that occurred during a week in London in 1665:
This is what a coca plant looks like:
Chick-fil-A workers wear big, fluorescent pods when it’s raining:
You can buy banana-and-cinnamon pizza in Brazil:
Dentists practice on absolutely terrifying dummies:
Recognize these big ol’ rocks? This is Mount Rushmore before the presidential heads were carved into it:
This is the Speyer wine bottle, the oldest known bottle of wine on Earth:
It’s almost 1,700 years old and likely still drinkable!
Apparently back in the day, peanut sellers would, well, wear suits with a ton of peanuts sewn into them:
This is what a living sand dollar looks like compared with a dead one:
Alaska is big. REALLY big: