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This is what Mount St. Helens looked like before it erupted in 1980, becoming the deadliest volcanic eruption in US history…
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And this is what Mount St. Helens looked like after the 1980 eruption:
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This is what the blowhole on a humpback whale looks like:
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This is what the Space Shuttle Endeavour looked like as it left Earth and traveled to outer space:
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This is Charlotte and Majorie Collyer, a mother and daughter who survived the wreck of the Titanic in 1912:
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This is what the battleship USS Independence looks like outside of water:
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This is what a turtle’s skeleton looks like:
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This is what the inside of a hedge looks like:
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This picture, taken in 1925, is the last known photo of a Barbary lion in the wild:
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This is what the Statue of Liberty looks like from the back:
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This is what one college student’s dorm room looked like the 1910s:
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Traffic lights are absolutely enormous:
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This is what the bottom of a lily pad looks like:
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Niagara Falls froze over in 1883:
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Curved escalators are a thing that exist:
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This is the “American Candy” section in a British gas station:
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Speaking of which, this is what a freeze-dried Skittle looks like:
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This is what Gutzon Borglum’s original model for Mount Rushmore looked like:
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And,finally, in 1961, auditions were held for the role of the black cat in the film adaption of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat.” Lots of black cats showed up: