Unearth a treasure trove of intriguing discoveries with our post on interesting finds! From rare antiques to quirky artifacts, we highlight the most captivating and unexpected items that will pique your curiosity. Join us on a journey through the extraordinary and delightfully unusual!
This is what a lighthouse lens from the 1700s looks like:
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This is the last photograph ever taken of the Titanic:
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This is what a report card from 1926 looks like:
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This camouflage, known as "dazzle camouflage," was extremely popular during World War I:
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You're probably familiar with the front of King Tut's iconic death mask:
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Well, this is what the back looks like:
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Blue lobsters exist:
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And grasshoppers? Well, some grasshoppers can be pink:
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But back to lobsters: This is what a whole bunch of three week old lobsters look like:
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Somewhere out in the world there's a Red Cross van donated by Britney Spears:
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For some reason unbeknownst to me, in 1920 a policeman did this off a building in New York:
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This is 455 pound Piet van der Zwaard AKA the "fattest man in Europe" in 1955:
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This is one of the earliest designs for roller skates. They didn't catch on for some reason:
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This is what a traffic light looked like in New York City in 1929:
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In the early 1900s, one way to transport tons of materials and train parts was to suspend it hundreds of feet in the air and tow it across a canyon:
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Some people have abnormally huge veins:
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It was so hot in Arizona last week that WINDOW BLINDS were melting:
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This is what the face of a sawfish looks like:
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This is what the inside of an air mattress looks like:
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This is what first class looked like on a plane in the 1950s:
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This is Lemuel Cook, maybe the oldest living veteran of the American Revolutionary War, photographed in the mid-1800s:
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The 2024 Paris Olympics are about to start very, very soon, so TV networks will probably show this exact view about a hundred times a day: