Interesting Finds And Discoveries (22 pics)

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This is what Nicolas Cages' father, August Coppola, looked like:

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This is how big (or small) France is compared to the United States:

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This is what store bought strawberries look like compared to strawberries bought at a farmer's market:

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This is what the control panel of the Spirit of Saint Louis, the plane Charles Lindbergh used on his historic flight across the Atlantic Ocean, looked like:

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And this is the chair Charles Lindbergh sat on for his entire 33 hour flight:

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While we're at it, here's a diagram of his entire plane, for reference:

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Elephant seals are really, really, really, really big:

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There are four miles of tunnels 72 feet underneath Tokyo designed to prevent the city from flooding. The whole system is absolutely huge:

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This is what a Fanta from Europe looks like compared to one from the United States:

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This is one very, very, very safe example of what a baby's car seat used to look like in the 1950s and 60s:

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Here it is in action:

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This is the world's oldest surviving photograph, taken by Nicéphore Niépce in 1827:

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Here's what the original, un-enhanced world's oldest picture looks like today:

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This was the scene aboard the ship The Queen Elizabeth as it brought soldiers back home to New York after World War II ended:

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This is the first prize winning can of string beans from September 1945:

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Eleven days in October had to be skipped after the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1582:

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This smiling fellow is a lab technician hired to observe couples kissing in order to gauge the durability of lipstick:

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This is what a egg that's missing a yolk looks like:

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This picture straight out of Harold Potter is of the former Cincinnati Public Library, built in 1874 and demolished in 1955:

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"Sapphire tower plant blooms for first and last time in 20 years."