This collection of jaw-dropping photos captures the extraordinary in the ordinary, turning everyday scenes into visual masterpieces.
This is what a report card from 1926 looks like:
This camouflage, known as “dazzle camouflage,” was extremely popular during World War I:
This is what a lighthouse lens from the 1700s looks like:
You’re probably familiar with the front of King Tut’s iconic death mask:
Well, this is what the back looks like:
Blue lobsters exist:
And grasshoppers? Well, some grasshoppers can be pink:
But back to lobsters: This is what a whole bunch of three week old lobsters look like:
Somewhere out in the world there’s a Red Cross van donated by Britney Spears:
For some reason unbeknownst to me, in 1920 a policeman did this off a building in New York:
This is 455 pound Piet van der Zwaard AKA the “fattest man in Europe” in 1955:
This is one of the earliest designs for roller skates. They didn’t catch on for some reason:
This is what a traffic light looked like in New York City in 1929:
In the early 1900s, one way to transport tons of materials and train parts was to suspend it hundreds of feet in the air and tow it across a canyon:
Some people have abnormally huge veins:
It was so hot in Arizona last week that WINDOW BLINDS were melting:
This is what the face of a sawfish looks like:
This is what the inside of an air mattress looks like:
This is what first class looked like on a plane in the 1950s:
This is Lemuel Cook, maybe the oldest living veteran of the American Revolutionary War, photographed in the mid-1800s:
The 2024 Paris Olympics are about to start very, very soon, so TV networks will probably show this exact view about a hundred times a day:
This is what those Olympic rings look like from behind:
And this is how big they are compared to a person:
This poster from the late 1800s advertises a fight between “the world’s thinnest man” and “the world’s fattest man”:
This is what the wheel of the Mars Curiosity Rover looks like after over a decade on the Red Planet:
You can buy a signed Babe Ruth baseball from Costco:
Some funeral homes sell cardboard box coffins:
This is what an MRI of a kiwi, a peach, and an avocado looks like:
This is what a size 74 belt looks like:
This is one of the few known photos of Vincent van Gogh, shown here at age 20:
This is what a modern-day “bulb” inside a lighthouse looks like:
This is a picture of the ice mountains of Pluto as seen from the New Horizons space probe:
Some movie theaters let you know straight from the jump if you need to sit through the credits:
Oranges float and limes sink:
Redwood trees are really, really, really, really big:
In some lines of work, you cannot carry a cellphone with a camera. This is what an iPhone with no camera looks like:
This is what a hummingbird egg looks like compared to an ostrich egg:
This is what the Statue of Liberty looks like from the back:
This, in all its 1912 glory, is what a first-class suite looked like on the ship:
Some libraries tell you just how much using them has saved you. Spoiler alert, my friend — it’s a lot:
In some places you can buy BAGS of cooking oil:
This is a sunfish…
Source: www.buzzfeed.com