Unusual Discoveries And Finds (20 pics)

1

"To scale, this is how big a strand of human hair is compared to an egg cell"

2

"They sell red Solo cups as "American party cups" in New Zealand"

3

"This is what some of the first New York City tour buses looked like in 1904"

4

"This just might set the world record for smallest hand-carved wooden spoon"

5

"Here's another shot of a redwood tree absolutely towering over a car"

6

"This is the Queensland Stinger, one of the world's most dangerous plants"

7

"This is how big the Democratic Republic of the Congo is compared to the east coast of the United States"

8

"This is the Murchison meteorite, a meteorite found in Australia that formed over seven billion years ago"

9

"This is what the big ol' noggin of the Statue Of Liberty looks like from the torch"

10

"This is the Thanksgiving menu that was served at the Plaza Hotel in 1899"

11

"This is what an elephant's tail looks like close up"

12

"And this is what one of those tail hairs looks like up close"

13

"This is apparently a set of "instructions for new mothers" given to new moms in the 1940s"

14

"These are the shoes (well, shoe) Marie Antoinette wore to her execution during the French Revolution"

15

"Speaking of 18th and 19th century French history, Napoleon's hat recently sold at auction for 2.1 million dollars"

16

"Chickens can occasionally lay soft, smooshy eggs with no shell"

17

"Moths can be REALLY, REALLY big"

18

"Here's a list of every named generation going back to the 1400s"

19

"This is what a receipt for a Model T car looked like in 1919"