Confused by many a thing

Hedgehog-shaped jar, Neolithic period (3500-3000 BCE)

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

inspired by this image of a panic attack during a CT scan

Baotou (包頭) is the wrapping and styling of the hair and headwear for dan roles (旦角; female characters) in Chinese opera. The steps include putting on a hair net, binding the scalp to lift the brows, adding hairpieces to the sides of the face and the forehead, and adding hair extensions/wigs and head ornaments. Nowadays, tape and glue are used to help keep things in place so the head doesn't have to be bound as tightly as in the past, but even so, long periods of wear can cause dizziness or nausea. OP specifically does Henan opera (豫劇; yu4ju4).

Filippo Palizzi (Italian painter 1818–1899)

Excavations in Pompeii, 1870

Oil on Canvas

119.5 × 86 cm.

But it was buried by generations! Yes, it was buried in a volcanic eruption, but it was also figuratively buried. Over the centuries the location of Pompeii was lost, and it was found again by accident during construction projects. The ruins were not conclusively identified as the city of Pompeii until the 18th century (more than a millennia and a half after the eruption!) and it has been excavated ever since. People have been digging there since before the formation of the United States.