1.Emu eggs look like something straight out of Game of Thrones:
2.This is what Abraham Lincoln looked like when he became president in 1861...
...and this is what he looked like four short years later, in 1865:
3.This is Pauline Musters, the shortest woman ever to live:
4.In 1933, A.L. Kahn caught a 5,000-pound manta ray off the coast of Florida:
5.Hotels used to have to put up signs explaining that electricity is safe and not to be feared:
6.In 1955 it cost $4.75 to go on 10 rides at Disneyland:
7.In the 1930s, this couple won an Atlantic City dance marathon after dancing for 1,473 hours:
8.And, yes, people did fall asleep standing up while dancing at these marathons:
9.Someone had to hand-carve all of the presidents' eyes on Mount Rushmore:
10.This extremely complicated thing is what the steering wheel of a Formula 1 race car looks like:
11.This is the message then-president Jimmy Carter sent aboard the Voyager spacecraft to any aliens the ship might encounter:
12.California once had a place called the California Alligator Farm where children were encouraged to get up close and personal with alligators and even take them for rides:
13.This terrifying picture is a close-up of a man with Bruce, the mechanical shark created for the movie Jaws:
14.This is what a toucan's skeleton looks like:
15.This is a real 19th-century advertisement for cough medicine with a very special ingredient — heroin:
16.In Las Vegas in 1955, you could purchase a hotel plot for $3 million:
17.In 1926, two students were able to fully dissect an entire intact nervous system from a human body:
18.In 1876, Virgil A. Gates patented the "Moustache Guard," an absolutely brilliant invention for "holding the moustache out of the way of food or liquid while eating or drinking":
19.This is what a 100-year-old marriage certificate looks like:
20.And, finally, most importantly, bananas float in rum but sink in cognac:
