This is what one gram of gold looks like. As of today, this little thing is worth over $109

Michelangelo’s David is VERY, VERY big

This awe-inspiring sight is a potato storage facility. That’s a five-foot shovel, for reference

This is Robert Wadlow, the tallest man who ever lived, towering above everyone else at 8’11”

This assortment of nails, buttons, safety pins, and more is the stomach content of a patient with pica, a disorder that causes a strong urge to eat nonfood items

They were all found inside a patient post-autopsy

This is Dr. James Naismith, the man who invented basketball at the age of 32

He was a graduate student at Springfield College, tasked with getting young men to be active. Let this be a lesson to you: if you don’t invent a sports by the age of 32, you are BLOWING IT

And here’s what is apparently the first EVER basketball team

Dr. Naismith is there in the suit. Surrounding him is John G. Thompson, Eugene S. Libby, Edwin P. Ruggles, William R. Chase, T. Duncan Patton, Frank Mahan, Finlay G. MacDonald, William H. Davis and Lyman W. Archibald. Now THOSE are some old-timey names. I think the Raptors would hang 1200 on them

And this picture, from the early 1900s, shows an early basketball game, kneepads and all

Josh Hart would make that man CRY

This, in all its glory, is a meeting of the US Board of Tea Experts. They’re, well, testing teas for sale in the USA

Oh, to be a fly on the wall at the old-dudes-tasting-tea party.

This is a detailed map showing just how far the Mars Opportunity Rover traveled in its 15 years on the planet

While we’re on the subject, this is the first picture Opportunity took on the surface of Mars…

And this is the last

This is how some scientists tested the effectiveness football helmets in the 1950s — by banging themselves in the head with a heavy object

I’d imagine it’s always a long, long day at the heavy-object-head-banging factory

This is what an elephant’s tail looks like up-close

Would love to floss my teeth with one of those strands. Right folks?

This is Diane Stopky, winner of International Posture Queen in 1957, posing with her award-winning spine

Some ladybugs are born without spots

In 1918, over 30,000 soldiers came together to make a giant human-shield

Before exposure times were significantly reduced, people sitting for photographs sometimes used a small device to support their head and ease neck strain

This is what happens if you put a highlighter in the microwave

This is what a frozen egg looks like without its shell

Some grasshoppers are pink! This is due to erythrism, a condition where an animal’s coloring is especially red due to excess red pigmentation

This is what 1000 shirts stacked on top of each other looks like

High voltage lines are, well, really high voltage. They can even melt concrete if they hit the ground

And I’d be remiss if I didn’t add a picture of a very, very tiny frog to one of these lists. Look how tiny this little guy is

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