Okay, My Literal Pea-Sized Brain Is Completely Blown After Seeing These 60 Incredibly Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time Last Month

1.This is what a store-bought egg looks like compared with an egg bought at a farmers market:

The farmers market egg yolk is more orange

2.American Froot Loops and Canadian Froot Loops are totally different colors:

Canadian Froot Loops alongside American Froot Loops; Canadian variety is duller in color

3.This is what Michelangelo's statue "David" looks like from behind:

The rear view of David, with bare back and buttocks

4.This is what a jail cell in Sweden's biggest prison looks like:

A room with a window, large bookcase, twin bed, small desk and chair, small rug, TV, and sink

Specifically a cell in Kumla Prison. Would love to commit a crime in Sweden.

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5.This, from 1896, is what one of Pablo Picasso's first-ever self-portraits looks like:

Pablo Picasso self-portrait, with facial features
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And this, from 1972, is what one of Picasso's last self-portraits looks like:

Pablo Picasso self-portrait cubist-style line drawing, with no lifelike facial features
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6.This is what a mass of DNA looks like:

Clear liquid with a small clump in the center in a test tube

7.This is how big a wolf's paw print is compared with a human hand:

Human hand whose fingers extend above the paw print of similar width next to it

8.This is what the set of Seinfeld looked like:

Seinfeld set with several rooms sectioned off in a studio

And this is what the set of I Love Lucy looks like in full color:

The I Love Lucy set with blue couch and seats

It feels so...wrong.

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9.Australia is really, really big:

Outline of Australia superimposed over Europe on a map

10.This is what a stack of $1,000 worth of uncirculated $1 bills looks like next to a stack of $1,000 worth of used $1 bills:

The stack of used bills is much higher than the uncirculated stack

11.This is what the "American Candy" section looks like in a UK store:

Candy section featuring Gobstoppers, Nerds, Mike and Ikes, Milk Duds, and Sweet Tarts

12.And this is what the American section in a German sporting goods store looks like:

Mainly footballs and baseball caps and bats

13.In a deck of cards, every king except for the king of hearts has a mustache:

King cards

14.You're probably familiar with the "Face on Mars," an image of a formation on Mars from the 1970s that launched a million conspiracy theories...

An apparent face on the surface of Mars
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...well, this is what a much less blurry, much more recent photograph of that same "face" looks like:

A craggly, raised surface that looks nothing like a face

I still want to believe.

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15.This is what the inside of a water tower looks like:

Inside of a water tower with a ladder on the side leading down to the blue water

16.This is what the late 7-foot-7-inch NBA legend Manute Bol looked like while swimming in a typical swimming pool:

Manute Bol swimming in a pool, with his legs looking especially long

17.This is what the back of the "Mona Lisa" looks like:

A nondescript back of a wooden canvas with "H" and "29" written on it

18.This is what a husky looks like compared with a wolf:

The wolf is almost twice the size of the husky

19.America is still very, very young:

Social media post using the lifetimes of people who lived about 100 years each to illustrate the point that the US is only three adult lifetimes old

20.This is what a human skeleton looks like compared with a gorilla skeleton:

The gorilla rib cage and pelvic bone are much wider

The gorilla skeleton would make a fantastic offensive lineman, I think.

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21.This is what a $500 bill looks like:

A $500 bill

22.Curved escalators exist:

A curved escalator in a mall

23.This right here is a photo from President Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration in 1861:

A large crowd outside the US Capitol

Can you spot Honest Abe?

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24.This is what the world's tallest man, Sultan K?sen, looks like next to his wife:

Sultan, with a can, holds hands with his wife, who is about half his height

Originally from Turkey, K?sen stands 8 feet 3 inches tall.

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And this is what his hand looks like holding a can of Pepsi:

A giant hand holding a can of Pepsi

25.This is what a cross-section of wood from the 1950s looks like compared with a cross-section of wood from today:

1950s wood has more striations/growth rings

26.Now, you're obviously familiar with the front side of a peacock. It's majestic. Glorious, even! But have you ever seen a peacock's back side? Now you have:

A peacock's rear with the feathers in the back raised and the plumage in full effect

27.Cooling towers have an open bottom:

The base of a cooling tower with glass windows

28.You can tell the difference between cheap pasta and expensive pasta by looking at them:

The cheap pasta is smoother

29.Screwdrivers...well, screwdrivers can be really, really big:

A person holding a screwdriver that extends up a wall

30.This photo is one of only two photos in existence of the US Supreme Court in session:

The court in session, with me sitting in high-back chairs

31.Highway signs are way bigger than your tiny little brain thought they were:

Highway signs traveling down a highway on a truck

32.This flag, from 1850, is one of two original and authentic Jolly Rogers in existence today:

A Jolly Rogers flag

33.The small island in the middle of this picture is where Princess Diana is buried:

A tiny round piece of land with bushes in the middle of a pond, surrounded by a large garden

34.This is what the Jeopardy host's podium looks like during a show:

A Jeopardy podium showing a screen with questions and Post-it Notes around it and smaller screens

35.Hospitals have machines that allow doctors and nurses to see exactly where your veins are:

A person's open palm with the veins showing up in a lit, squared-off area

36.This is what the Rosetta stone looks like from the front...

The stone's inscription of hieroglyphics and other characters
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...and this is what the back of the Rosetta stone looks like:

The huge stone's uneven, broken surface, behind glass, with people standing next to it

37.In the hours after he died, a bronze death mask was made of Napoleon Bonaparte's face:

A bust of Napoleon Bonaparte with eyes closed and no hair

Also not what I was expecting.

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38.This is what the biggest leaf ever found in the Amazon Rainforest looks like compared with an adult man:

Man standing next to a framed giant leaf up against a wall and taller than he is

39.During World War II, the statue of "David" by Michelangelo was completely encased in bricks to prevent damage from bombs:

David encased in bricks in the shape of a dome

40.This, in all its glory, is what the inside of the Wienermobile looks like:

Brightly colored (red and yellow) seats with a yellow mustard zigzag on the floor and hot dogs illustrations on the backs of the seats

41.Elephants have "humanlike" breasts:

Arrow pointing to an elephant's two hanging udders

I know this and now you do too.

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42.This is the top hat Abraham Lincoln wore the night he was assassinated:

A well-worn top hat

Wild.

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43.A toucan's skull looks very, very tiny next to its beak:

A small toucan skull attached to the huge beak
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44.This is what a "fresh cup" of banana juice looks like:

Light yellow liquid in a glass measuring cup

45.This is what's behind a movie screen:

Speakers on the back of the screen, scaffolding, and a ladder

46.This is what a map of the world's oceans and only the world's oceans looks like:

The oceans' connected outlines around the continents, from the Arctic to the Atlantic and Indian oceans and the Pacific

47.The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:

An old dictionary open to a page labeled "Words recently introduced," including Eugenics, Telewriter, Wireless, and Linotype

48.This is what's under a pool table:

Hinges and connecting wooden bars

49.This is what a newborn baby hippo looks like:

A cute little hippo with many skin folds

This lil' fella here is only a few weeks old.

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50.Some elevators have buttons you can press with your FEET:

A numbered panel just above the floor

51.In the mid-1800s, any of these things could get you admitted to a "lunatic asylum":

A long list of "Reasons for Admission 1864 to 1889," including female disease, feebleness of intellect, sexual derangement, self-abuse, desertion by husband, asthma, bad whiskey, grief, gunshot wound, snuff eating for 2 years, and fell from horse in war

52.This right here is a giant earthworm that was found in Queensland, Australia:

Big old worm hanging from a large, rectangular digging tool

53.This is the oldest picture of the White House ever taken:

The White House

It was taken in 1846.

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54.In 1939, Mahatma Gandhi wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler pleading with him not to go to war:

In a 7/23/39 letter signed "Your sincere friend," Gandhi asks "Herr Hitler," "the one person in the world who can prevent a war," "Will you listen to the appeal of one who has [d]eliberately shunned the method of war not without considerable success?"

55.This is what the Hindenburg looked like while it was under construction:

Construction of the Hindenburg showing the skeleton of the zeppelin airship

It was absolutely enormous.

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And this is what the dining hall looked like on board the finished zeppelin:

The Hindenburg's dining hall showing two long tables with simple chairs and place settingsg
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56.This is the size of a flag flown on a Spanish ship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1905:

A frayed flag open and lying flat

Absolutely massive!

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57.This is what a real, authentic plague mask from the 1500s looked like:

A velvety-looking mask that goes over the head and covers the shoulders, with a conelike beak nose and plastic holes for the eyes

Not terrifying at all.

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58.Social Security cards used to not be a flimsy little piece of paper:

A firm-looking Social Security card

59.This is Herman the Cat, a cat who was given the title of expert mouser aboard a US Coast Guard ship during World War II:

An ID card, issued 1/12/43, for Herman the Cat, born in Baltimore, with a photo of the cat — described as 8 months old, 15 inches high, weighing 11 pounds, with green eyes and gray hair — and a paw print

Herman, in addition to other cats aboard ships, was there to catch pests. It was a thing. Folks, do we stan Herman the Cat?

Sherman Grinberg Library

60.And finally, this is the statement President Jimmy Carter wrote and put aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft, intended for any aliens the probe might encounter:

A statement from Carter dated June 16, 1977, describing the US as "a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion people who inhabit the planet Earth" and describes it as "a present from a small, distant world"