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1.This is George Hackenschmidt, the man credited with the invention of the bench press:
Swole people around the world, light a candle for Georgy Boy.
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2.For a brief but miraculous moment in time, you could get potatoes from a vending machine:
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3.Whiskey too:
From here it went downhill.
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4.This is Chandra Bahadur, the shortest man in recorded history:
He was only 21.5 centimeters tall.
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5.And here’s Chandra Bahadur next to the world’s tallest man, Sultan Kosen:
Sultan stands 8 ft 3 in.
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6.This is what the end of the eastern section of the Great Wall of China looks like:
Quiet place to fend off foreign invaders, sure.
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7.This is what a bunch of fossilized dinosaur eggs look like:
I need to get a mad scientist into that living room to bring it back to life.
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8.There is a deserted island off the coast of Nagasaki in Japan:
It’s called Hashima Island and it used to be home to more than 5,000 people. It was abandoned in the 1970s.
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9.This is Selma Burke, the woman who designed the portrait of Franklin Roosevelt that still appears on the pennies to this day:
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10.There is a horse breed known as a Bashkir Curly with, well, curly hair:
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11.I just need to stroke:
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12.This is the Swiss mini pistol, the smallest working pistol in the world:
It is five inches long and completely illegal in the United States.
13.This is what an ultraviolet photo of the sun looks like:
In this particular image, the red parts are cooler, while the green and blue parts are much hotter.
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14.This is the Peel P50, the smallest car ever produced:
It measured “54 inches long, 41 inches wide, and 47 inches tall.”
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15.This is what the back of the Price is right wheel looks like this:
This may be the most stunning thing I’ve ever seen.
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16.This is the Murchison meteorite, a meteorite found in Australia that has formed over 7 billion years past:
That makes it more than two billion years older than our solar system.
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17.And while we’re at it, here’s what a super-small meteorite looks like next to a quarter:
18.This is what a professional cyclist’s leg looks like after a race:
19.Some blood drives let you know exactly when and where your blood will be used to help save a patient:
20.This is a typewriter built specifically for writing music notation:
21.This is what the view from the top of Mount Rushmore looks like:
Standing on the literal shoulders of giants.
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22.And, finally, one of the more ridiculous inventions of the 19th century was this, a “mass shaving machine” designed to shave a bunch of men in one go:
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