Fascinating Finds From Around The World (26 pics)

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This is Wendy Thomas, the daughter of Wendy's founder Dave Thomas and the namesake of the restaurant:

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This is what the passenger cabin on a Pan Am flight in the 1940s looked like:

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Some of the Titanic's deck chairs were salvaged from the wreck. Here's what one of them looks like:

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In 1908, huge crowds gathered in Boston to watch Harry Houdini jump off a bridge while tied up in chains:

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This is John Smith, a Chippewa man who was reported to be 137 years old at the time of his death:

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Koalas have fingerprints that are extremely similar to human fingerprints:

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Playgrounds were extremely dangerous in the early 1900s:

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This silicon sphere is the roundest object in the world:

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It was created to "redefine the kilogram in terms of the Planck constant." In addition, if this sphere was enlarged to be the same size as Earth, the highest point and the deepest point would be just 10 feet apart.

This is what the McDonald's menu looked like in the 1960s:

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This is what a college dorm room looked like in the 1890s:

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And here are two roommates palling around in a dorm room circa 1910:

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This is how big a human hand is compared with a polar bear's footprint:

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This is what the Panama Canal looked like while it was under construction:

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This is what a mobile home looked like in the 1930s:

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Pocketknifes can be really, really, really, really, really tiny:

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This is how many barrels of wine the French army supplied for its troops for the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I:

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This right here, ladies and gentlemen, is the world's oldest cat door:

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There are libraries that tell you exactly how much you're saving by checking books out:

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One of Queen Elizabeth's childhood corgis was named Jane, and the other was named...Dookie:

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This isn't photoshop — it's the Sendai Daikannon, the fifth-tallest statue in the world:

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Speaking of big, giant things, this is the Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying creature to have ever existed:

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This picture of a hairless chimpanzee really demonstrates just how absolutely yoked chimps are:

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Here's one more look at a jacked chimpanzee, because you deserve it:

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Speaking of which, this is Harrison Schmitt, one of four living men to have set foot on the moon's surface, and the one who did it most recently:

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Here's another picture of Schmitt walking on the moon: