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This is what a stairwell that doesn’t loop around and only goes in one direction looks like:
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This is what economy class on a commercial plane looked like in the 1960s:
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Car seats for children were incredibly dangerous in the 1940s:
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This house, located in Alexandria, Virginia, is the thinnest house in the United States:
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This is what $700 worth of platinum looks like:
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This is a rafflesia, the biggest flower in the world:
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This is how an offshore oil platform is transported to the location where it will be installed:
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This is what the inside of a Coca Cola Freestyle machine looks like:
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The last McDonald’s in Iceland closed in 2009. Feast your eyes on the final cheeseburger sold in the country, which has been preserved and lying in state for the past decade:
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Panda caretakers in China wear disguises to avoid spooking the cubs and to help acclimate them to their new lives outside of captivity:
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Here’s another picture of that, for good measure:
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This is what olive oil looks like when it’s freshly squeezed:
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In 1969, Niagara Falls was “drained” in order to remove a large number of boulders that had accumulated at the foot of the falls:
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Speaking of which, this is what a canal in Venice, Italy looks like fully drained:
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This is what the first-class bathroom aboard Emirates Airlines looks like:
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Cheez Whiz becomes a demonic entity after being expired for ten years:
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This postcard was sent to households across the country in order to introduce them to the Zip Code system, first implemented in 1963:
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This 12 foot tall behemoth is an Octobass, the largest string instrument in existence:
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This is what EPCOT in Disney World looked like while it was under construction:
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This is an elephant beetle, a species of beetle found in Central and South America that can grow to be up to five inches long:
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The very first iteration of Ronald McDonald was created by Willard Scott in 1963:
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And, finally, a whooooole lot of people needed to do their thing for you to exist: