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My Tiny Little Brain Is Completely Blown After Seeing These 25 Incredibly Interesting Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week

I've said it before and I'll say it again: wow.

1. This, in all its 1912 glory, is what a first-class suite looked like on the Titanic:

A modest room with a full-size bed, rug, and three not very comfy-looking chairs and a small table

2. In a French deck of playing cards, instead of seeing J, Q, and K, you'll see V, D, and R:

Face cards with different letters

3. There are some German bars that have sinks designed specifically for puking in:

A small sink that looks more like a toilet

4. This is what cigarette smoke does to a wall:

A yellowed wall except for two white patches where pictures used to be

5. These were some of the job necessities for a TWA flight attendant in the 1940s:

Air Hostess Qualifications: Age, 21 to 26; height, 5'2" to 5'6"; weight, 100 to 130 lbs; education, 1 year of college or a registered nurse; must be single and have good vision

6. Cement trucks and other giant trucks can have student drivers:

"Please be patient, student driver" sign on the back of a huge truck

7. This is what Charlie Chaplin looked like as a young man:

Black-and-white close-up of a man with curly hair

8. For reference, here's how you're probably used to remembering Charlie Chaplin:

Charlie with a bowler hat and thin mustache

9. And just for good measure, here's what an eightysomething Charlie Chaplin looked like:

Close-up of Charlie in a tie

10. Michelangelo's "David" is gigantic:

A person standing on tall scaffolding and working on David's face

11. There's a device called a VeinViewer that shows doctors and nurses where your veins are located:

A person's hand veins highlighted in neon green

12. Cuttlefish have W-shaped pupils:

Squiggly pupils

13. This is the 2.7 mm Kolibri, the world's smallest pistol:

A pistol fitting in the palm of a hand

14. This is one of the few known photos of Vincent van Gogh, shown here at age 20:

A man in a suit and tie

15. Rainbows can happen at night. When they do, they're called "moonbows":

A rainbow behind clouds at night

16. Garlic can be just one giant clove:

A garlic bulb that's one big clove

17. This is what a close-up of a line drawn with a red crayon on a piece of paper looks like under a microscope:

A mesh-looking white surface with reddish sections

18. A PlayStation 5 controller has tiny little PlayStation buttons all over it:

Close-up of surface with a mass of symbols

19. The man on the left, Muggsy Bogues, played in the NBA almost twice as long as the man on the right, Yao Ming:

Muggsy, 5 feet 3, in a loose suit and Yao, 7 feet 6, in a suit jacket and loose jeans, standing together in front of a window showing a city skyline

20. This is what a 100-sided die looks like:

A round die with numbers up to 100

21. Wrenches, my boy...wrenches can be really, really big:

A giant wrench about twice as long as a person's arm next to it

22. You can buy at-home tests that test for both COVID-19 and the flu:

Lines for Flu A + B and COVID-19

23. People can have a uvula that's split right down the middle, creating a double, or bifid, uvula:

A uvula with two descending parts

24. This is what a ballpoint pen looks like under an electron microscope:

A surface with small dark dots on it

25. And finally, this is what a, uh, whale's you-know-what looks like:

A sperm whale penis behind glass in a museum that's taller than a woman standing nearby