The Insides of These Everyday Objects Are Totally Unexpected

Gun Barrel

This photo looks just like the inside of the famous James Bond opening sequence, but a little more open at the top. This is actually a look into the barrel of a WW11 royal ordnance tank gun. You definitely don't want to have this view in real life, especially if you're James Bond himself. Get out of the way!

Open Cargo Ship

Why someone would ever order for the halving of a giant cargo ship like this one, we'll never know, but it definitely speaks to how big this ship is! This is a whopping 7 stories tall, and typically each floor would be filled with precious overseas cargo. You wouldn't trust anything shipping like this though...

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The More You Know

  • In the late 1600s, London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout "Spanko!" before running away.
  • In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
  • In the 2011 census for the Czech Republic, over 15 thousand people listed their religion as Jedi.
  • Surfaces near the equator move much faster than those in other locations on Earth.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.