Imagine a student saying they look just like their grandpa. Sounds cute. But what if they provided you with an old photograph where someone is so similar to them, you'd say it's their clone? Or what if a person, instead of saying they found a giant skull, sends you a pic where they're laying near the humongous thing?
Perspective is everything, as they say. Most of the time, you can only truly appreciate something by checking how that particular object fits within your existing knowledge. Comparing it with slightly altered parameters like location, age or time. And that's what we're about to do. Bored Panda has compiled a list of side-by-side comparison pictures that should put things into context for you. So get ready to broaden your own worldview and scroll down to check out the images!
#1 Same Tree, Different Seasons
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#2 This Is How Much Food You Can Get For The Cost Of A Pack Of Cigarettes In Australia
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#3 A Whale Skull With A Human For Scale
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#4 Summer Floof vs. Winter Floof
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#5 Me And My Grandpa In Medical School 70 Years Apart (Equally Sleep-Deprived)
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#6 The Largest Animal To Ever Exist, The Blue Whale Compared To A Diver
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#7 William Utermohlen Was Diagnosed With Alzheimer’s Disease. He Drew Self-Portraits Until He Could Barely Recognize His Own Face
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#8 Shirts Before And After Losing 400 Lbs
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#9 The Short-Nosed Bear's Height Compared To The Average Human Height
Scientists speculate these delayed human migrations into N. A. because they hunted us in the Bering Strait
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#10 My Painting Looks Way Different Sitting In Front Of A Window
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#11 The Canberra Transport Photo Was Taken To Illustrate The Road Space Required To Move 69 People Using Public Transport, Bicyles And Private Motor Vehicles
Image credits: We Ride Australia
#12 Two Tanks Were Set Up With Water From A Virginia Stream For 24 Hours. The One On The Right Had Mussels In It, The One On The Left Didn't
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#13 The Arm Of A Tyrannosaurus Rex Is Only About As Long As Mine
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#14 This Is How Marble Quarry Looks Like Outside And Inside
Image credits: Luca Locatelli
#15 A Grandmother And Her Granddaughter. 61-Years-Old vs. 12-Years-Old
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#16 Comparison Of The Tip Of A Hypodermic Needle, A Viper's Fang, A Spider's Fang And The Stinger Of A Scorpion
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#17 My Son At One Month Old And His 97-Year-Old Korean Great Grandmother
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#18 One Hundred Years Of American Innovation
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#19 Vials Of Heroin, Fentanyl, And Carfentanil Side By Side, Each Containing A Lethal Dose Of The Drug
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#20 Mountain St Helens Before And After Its 1980 Eruption
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#21 I Took A Photo Of Every Planet In Our Solar System And Adjusted Their Size To Show How Huge Our Sun Is
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#22 The Difference In Shoe Wear Between My Regular Foot And My Prosthetic Foot After A Year
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#23 My Favourite Stuffed Toy vs. Exactly The Same, But New One
In 1995, my great-aunt gave me a stuffed cat. It was my absolute favourite, and slept with me every night through my childhood. When she passed, we found out she had bought an identical cat and kept it in pristine condition for two decades. The years of love certainly left their mark.
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#24 I Got A New Purse Today. Top Is Without Flash, Bottom Is With Flash
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#25 Starfish With 6, 5 And 4 Arms
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#26 50 Seeds Each From Cultivated Sunflower (Left) And Wild Sunflower (Right). Both Are The Same Species
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#27 The Difference Between Modern Corn And Corn Before It Was Domesticated
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#28 Left: A Painting From 1892, Right: The Same Spot In 2020
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#29 Triceratops Femur (Left) vs. Elephant Femur
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#30 The Youth Have Been Cleaning The Mithi River (Mumbai, India) For Over A Year Now. Then vs. Now
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#31 Quetzalcoatlus Northropi Model Next To A 1.8m Man. The Largest Known Flying Animal Ever Exist
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#32 Australia On Fire. Pictures Taken From Charles Hamey Lookout Dunbogan / Camden Head Near Port Macquarie 1 Week Apart
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#33 In 1998, Fourfourtwo Magazine Predicted David Beckham Would Like Like This (Left) In 2020. This Is How He Actually Looks Like
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#34 Lion's Head Compared To Man's Head. Absolute Unit
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#35 15 Minute Difference In Seattle Weather
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#36 The Watermark Face On This Counterfeit Us $50 Bill
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#37 This Ridiculous, Nearly Five Pound Lobster Claw Compared To A Human Hand
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#38 Earth Healing Itself
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#39 500 Circulated $1 Bills Next To 500 Uncirculated $1 Bills
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#40 Tiny Baby Hummingbird Compared To A Size Of A Raspberry
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#41 Bison vs. Human. Just To Give You An Idea Of How Big They Are, This Bison Male Weighs Around 3000 Lbs
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#42 The Size Of A Tiger Paw Compared To A Man's Hand
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#43 Humans Compared To Majestic Sequoias In The Winter
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#44 The Different Colors Of The Honey I Harvested This Year: Spring, Summer And Fall
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#45 A Makeup Project To Illustrate What The Same Hand Looks Like With Different Tones Of Skin Color
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#46 Photos I Take Of My Boyfriend vs. Photos He Takes Of Me
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#47 What A 4 Megabyte Hard-Drive Looked Like In 1965. iPhone X For Scale
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#48 Home Telescope vs. The Hubble Space Telescope. This Is The Pillars Of Creation
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#49 Recreated My Great-Grandmother's 1918 Portrait
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#50 The Fog Lifting And Changing The View From My House Between 8am And 10am
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#51 Without And With A Flash Photo Comparison Of An Anti-Paparazzi Scarf
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#52 My Hairy Leg After And Before Shaving
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#53 6 5/8 Inch Megalodon Tooth, 3 1/8 Inch Fossil Great White And 1 1/2 Inch Modern Day Great White Tooth
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#54 Jaw Of A Great White Set Inside That Of A Megalodon
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#55 Gorilla Hands Compared To A Human Hand
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#56 Did You Guys Know How Big Cactus Can Get? That’s Me At The Bottom
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#57 What A Difference One Day Can Make. Meet Spokey
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#58 The Difference In My Lens Prescription As Seen In The Light
My right eye is substantially worse than my left eye. I didn't notice for a long time because my left eye was compensating
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#59 What A Difference A Few Months Make. Same Spot In Tuscany. I Took The Green One At The End Of May And The Other One In Early October
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#60 1 Exposure vs. 120 Exposures Stacked Together
I had never actually seen the Milky Way with my own eyes, living in central India all my life in a very light-polluted city of over 2 million people. So one night I took my camera out to the roof, clicked 120+ shots, and this was the result
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#61 My Daughter's Boyfriend And My Peruvian Guinea Pig Share A Similar Hairdo
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#62 Shaquille O'neal, At 7'1", Stands Next To A Wax Figure Of Robert Wadlow, Who Was The Tallest Man To Have Ever Lived At 8'11"
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#63 First Day Of School vs. Second Day Of School
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#64 Gymnast Flavia Saraiva And Nene, Basketball Pivot, The Shortest And The Tallest Athlete Of The Brazilian Delegation In Rio 2016
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#65 Human Compared To Bears
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#66 The Claw Of A Male Southern Cassowary Compared To A Human Hand
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#67 A Box Of Nerds From 1984 I Found Under My Floor Boards vs. A Box I Bought Yesterday
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#68 1000g Spheres Of Magnesium, Aluminum, Titanium, Copper, And Tungsten
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#69 Tried On My Old Clothes After Losing 220 Lbs (2018 vs. 2019 Comparison)
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#70 Took Dog To Groomer. Got A Different Dog Back
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#71 My Friend’s Dad Is Really Proud Of The Banana Tree He’s Been Growing. He’s 5’7 For Scale
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#72 Photograph Comparing Human And Gorilla Skeletons
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#73 4 Weeks vs. Full Grown, With His Favorite Toy
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#74 What My Apartment View Should Look Like vs. What It Has Looked Like The Past Few Weeks (Canberra, Australia)
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#75 Four Seasons Of Kurdistan, Iraq
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#76 This Pizza Place Tells You The Area Of All Their Pizza Sizes And How Large They Are Compared To Each Other
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#77 Withdrew 300 Dollars From The Bank And Got 100 From 3 Different Generations
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#78 My Great-Grandmother And Me In The Same Spot 89 Years Apart
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