My Dumb Little Brain Is Completely Blown After Seeing These 21 Absolutely Incredible Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week
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.
Carrie Antlfinger / AP2. And this is the world's tallest statue, the Statue of Unity:
It's located in India and is 600 feet high.
Sam Panthaky / AFP via Getty Images3. This particular breed of sheep, known as hissar, is famous for its large, ample buttocks:
As you can plainly see.
Olga Seifutdinova / Getty Images/iStockphoto4. In 2011, Peter Glazebrook grew the world's largest onion, which weighed in at 18 pounds:
Adorable.
Christopher Furlong / Getty Images5. And here's my man again in 2015 at the World's Heaviest Marrow competition with his 115-pound big boy:
6. This is a close-up of some well-worn pebbles on the surface of Mars:
7. This is Samantha Ramsdell, the woman with the world's largest mouth gape:
It measures 2.56 inches in width.
RW / MediaPunch8. This is how big Greenland actually is compared with how big it appears on most maps:
Still kinda big, but not gigantic.
u/Basic_Sir5857 / thetruesize.com / Via reddit.com9. Before CGI, this is how MGM filmed its iconic movie intro:
You know, this one:
10. This right here is what one of the Titanic 's lifeboats looked like before the passengers were rescued:
11. This is how big Plymouth Rock is in real life:
Hmm. Hmm.
u/catbehindbars / Via reddit.com12. This is a picture from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Can you spot Abe?
13. There's a movie theater in Switzerland that lets you rent out beds to watch a movie in:
Thoughts on this, folks?
Pathe Schweiz / Facebook / Via Facebook: patheschweiz14. 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.
Don Cravens / Getty Images15. This is what 1,500 Jenga pieces balancing on one single piece look like:
16. This is what the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, looked like from the ground:
17. This is what a 100-sided die looks like:
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:
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?
Chris Saulit / Getty Images20. 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.
u/happyjacket3113 / Via reddit.com21. And, finally, there's an ancient Egyptian statue at the Field Museum in Chicago that looks just like Michael Jackson:
This is essential knowledge.
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