40 Extremely Random Things I Just Found Out That Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Month Posted by Dave Stopera Last Updated: April 2, 2024 40 Extremely Random Things I Just Found Out That Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Month 1. This is Ruth Malcolmson, the woman who won the 1924 Miss America pageant: 2. There’s a bird that looks JUST like Danny DeVito: 3. This is what a 4,500-pound block of cheese looks like: 4. The world’s verified oldest woman just had a birthday last month: 5. This bad boy is Zach T. Wilcox, owner of the world’s longest beard, in 1922: 6. This is what a piece of the moon and a piece of Mars look like: 7. Slang may just have peaked in the Victorian era: 8. This painting by Leonardo da Vinci is the most expensive painting ever sold: 9. This boat, known as Boomin’ Beaver, is apparently the smallest ship in the US Navy: 10. This is what a Twix that hasn’t been dipped in chocolate looks like: 11. This is what a stairwell that doesn’t loop around and only goes in one direction looks like: 12. This right here is a baby platypus, known as a “puggle”: 13. The most points you can get for a word in Scrabble, specifically for the word “oxyphenbutazone,” is 1,778: 14. This is how condoms were tested in the 1930s: 15. You can tell the difference between cheap pasta and expensive pasta by looking at them: 16. This is the Hoba meteorite, the largest meteorite on Earth: 17. Hammerhead sharks look absolutely terrifying in X-ray form: 18. This is what the inside of a wind turbine blade looks like: 19. Some children’s doctor’s offices put doorknobs up super high on doors so children can’t “escape”: 20. This is what a license plate from Antarctica looks like: 21. And, finally, this proposed design for a “female urinal” looks…not…great: 22. This is what a turtle getting an X-ray looks like: 23. This is the view from the toilet on the 155th floor of the United Arab Emirates’ Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world: 24. Hail can be really, really, really big: 25. Entire houses can be moved on the back of a truck: 26. This is what a smoker’s window looks like compared with a nonsmoker’s window: 27. This is what the inside of a walnut tree looks like: 28. The picture, from 1930, shows what the Empire State Building looked like while it was under construction: 29. This 65-foot-tall behemoth is the world’s largest sandcastle, built in Denmark in 2021: 30. Maple leaves…maple leaves can be very, very tiny: 31. This is how big Plymouth Rock is in real life: 32. This is one of the world’s largest offshore gas platforms, the Troll A platform, located in Norway: 33. This particular breed of sheep, known as Hissar or Gissar, is famous for its large, ample buttocks: 34. This is what a completely empty CVS store looks like: 35. See that little hole there? This is what Mount Vesuvius looks like from space: 36. This is what a counterfeit $50 bill (on top) looks like compared with a real one: 37. These are the real-life outfits doctors would wear to treat plague patients in the 1600s: 38. This is what a pineapple that has flowered looks like: 39. This isn’t a big ol’ grape. It’s the world’s largest single-celled organism: 40. And finally, every single letter in the alphabet appears in at least one US state…except for the letter “Q”: Source link
1. This is Ruth Malcolmson, the woman who won the 1924 Miss America pageant: 2. There’s a bird that looks JUST like Danny DeVito: 3. This is what a 4,500-pound block of cheese looks like: 4. The world’s verified oldest woman just had a birthday last month: 5. This bad boy is Zach T. Wilcox, owner of the world’s longest beard, in 1922: 6. This is what a piece of the moon and a piece of Mars look like: 7. Slang may just have peaked in the Victorian era: 8. This painting by Leonardo da Vinci is the most expensive painting ever sold: 9. This boat, known as Boomin’ Beaver, is apparently the smallest ship in the US Navy: 10. This is what a Twix that hasn’t been dipped in chocolate looks like: 11. This is what a stairwell that doesn’t loop around and only goes in one direction looks like: 12. This right here is a baby platypus, known as a “puggle”: 13. The most points you can get for a word in Scrabble, specifically for the word “oxyphenbutazone,” is 1,778: 14. This is how condoms were tested in the 1930s: 15. You can tell the difference between cheap pasta and expensive pasta by looking at them: 16. This is the Hoba meteorite, the largest meteorite on Earth: 17. Hammerhead sharks look absolutely terrifying in X-ray form: 18. This is what the inside of a wind turbine blade looks like: 19. Some children’s doctor’s offices put doorknobs up super high on doors so children can’t “escape”: 20. This is what a license plate from Antarctica looks like: 21. And, finally, this proposed design for a “female urinal” looks…not…great: 22. This is what a turtle getting an X-ray looks like: 23. This is the view from the toilet on the 155th floor of the United Arab Emirates’ Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world: 24. Hail can be really, really, really big: 25. Entire houses can be moved on the back of a truck: 26. This is what a smoker’s window looks like compared with a nonsmoker’s window: 27. This is what the inside of a walnut tree looks like: 28. The picture, from 1930, shows what the Empire State Building looked like while it was under construction: 29. This 65-foot-tall behemoth is the world’s largest sandcastle, built in Denmark in 2021: 30. Maple leaves…maple leaves can be very, very tiny: 31. This is how big Plymouth Rock is in real life: 32. This is one of the world’s largest offshore gas platforms, the Troll A platform, located in Norway: 33. This particular breed of sheep, known as Hissar or Gissar, is famous for its large, ample buttocks: 34. This is what a completely empty CVS store looks like: 35. See that little hole there? This is what Mount Vesuvius looks like from space: 36. This is what a counterfeit $50 bill (on top) looks like compared with a real one: 37. These are the real-life outfits doctors would wear to treat plague patients in the 1600s: 38. This is what a pineapple that has flowered looks like: 39. This isn’t a big ol’ grape. It’s the world’s largest single-celled organism: 40. And finally, every single letter in the alphabet appears in at least one US state…except for the letter “Q”:
