60 Extremely Random Things I Just Found Out That Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Month

    I truly had no idea.

    1. This is how close Russia is to Alaska:

    Mountains of Russia visible across the water from the Alaska shore

    2. The Liberty Bell is a puny little bell:

    A man in a military uniform with King Charles III and Queen Camilla standing near the bell, which is on a pedestal and stands a bit higher than they are

    3. If you're flying in a plane above Bahrain, you can see the entire country:

    A series of flat land surfaces of various sizes separated by inlets, as seen from a plane window

    4. This is the Terex 33-19 Titan, an absolute behemoth of a truck that was the largest in the world for multiple decades:

    A person standing next to the truck — the person reaches about half the height of the wheel

    5. The inside of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is...underwhelming:

    The interior of a hollow tower with light coming in at the top

    6. This is the "American Super Bowl" section of a German grocery store:

    A store display with hamburger buns, ketchup, loaves of bread, pickles, hot dogs, and other condiments

    7. This is Henry Ford cruising around in the first car he designed, the quadricycle:

    A man with a top hat sitting in a car that looks more like a four-wheel bicycle/carriage

    8. If you boil 5 gallons of ocean water, this is roughly how much salt you'll be left with:

    Seven jars of salt crystals

    9. Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" is pretty dang big:

    A person standing underneath the mural painting

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

    Bald, eyes closed, sharp nose, hollow cheeks

    11. This is what 8 feet of snow looks like:

    A person making a path with mountains of snow towering above him on either side

    12. Last month, the world's tallest man, Sultan Kösen, met the world's smallest woman, Jyoti Amge, once more:

    Man in a suit holding a tiny, doll-like woman, both seated and gesturing

    Here's another picture of their meeting:

    Man in a suit sitting next to a smiling small person indoors

    13. Oranges can have green skin in certain climates. Yet for some reason, they are not called "greens":

    Whole and halved green oranges

    14. The first Super Bowl didn't sell out — you can see plenty of empty seats in pictures from that day:

    Players on the field and many empty seats behind them

    15. Circulated money gets worn out really quick:

    Stacks of $1,000 in new dollar bills and circulated bills, with the circulated ones much thicker and darker

    16. Deep scars don't sweat, so dirt doesn't stick to them:

    A dirty forearm with a clean line amid the dirt

    17. This is what a "modern" tomato looks like next to a tomato grown with 150-year-old seeds:

    The new tomato is much smaller, more red, and less "imperfections"

    18. This is how big a moose's tooth is:

    A hand holding a moose tooth, which is large

    19. This is what your blood without red blood cells looks like:

    Orangey fluid in a transparent bag

    20. This is what a dollar bill from 100 years ago looks like:

    A hand holding an old dollar bill, which says "silver dollar" below the image of George Washington

    21. This is what the inside of an ATM looks like:

    The back of the ATM has a keyboard, lots of cables, and other technical stuff

    22. Turtles have a deep, dark secret:

    Anatomical diagram showing turtle skeleton within its shell, sparking surprise online

    23. This is what the private movie theater inside the White House looks like:

    Red rug and rows of seats; the first row has footrests/ottoman tables and presidential seals on the top of the chair

    24. Not only is there a place that claims the longest hallway in America, but there's also a plaque commemorating it:

    A long hallway with a sign at the start of it saying "Longest Hallway in America / Measuring 907 feet"

    25. Should you ever get the urge to polish a coconut, this is what it will look like:

    A brown egg-shaped object

    26. Speaking of which, this is how enormous the mustard section in a German grocery store is:

    A store aisle filled with mustard and other condiments

    27. This is what a 30-year-old horse's tooth looks like:

    A very brown, large raggedy tooth in the palm of a hand

    28. Last month, this 500-pound tuna was sold for nearly $800,000 at an auction in Tokyo:

    A huge fish on its side with photographers surrounding it

    29. Pine cones, my friend...pine cones can be really, really big:

    A huge pine cone being held by a hand and soaring above it

    30. This is what the inside of an air mattress looks like:

    Many thin, billowy vertical strands of material

    31. When the sun is directly overhead, everyday objects won't cast a shadow:

    Various bottles on the ground with no shadows

    32. Windmill blades are absolutely gigantic:

    One blade being carried on a very long truck

    33. This ol' lumpy thing is the ball used in the 1930 World Cup final:

    A misshapen ball with interlocking fabric

    34. In 1936, you could give birth and stay in the hospital for 11 days and pay less than $62:

    Invoice dated May 26, 1936, from Amityville, New York's Brunswick General Hospital: Hospital fee was $4 a day for $44; delivery room was $10, baby care was $5.50, lab $1, special medicines $1.10, for a total of $61.60

    35. And feast your eyes upon this Roman sculpture of a dog licking itself, perhaps the most magnificent work of art ever commissioned:

    Sculpture of a dog with its leg raised and its head turned toward its torso

    36. Here's another "American Super Bowl" section found in a German grocery store:

    Lots of donuts, energy drinks, and popcorn

    37. This is what a nude Twix bar looks like:

    A Twix with the chocolate topping and one just with caramel

    38. This is what an ASL word search looks like:

    Government-themed words, like campaign, candidate, gerrymander, and incumbent, circled in an American Sign Language word search

    39. This is how big a giraffe's leg is:

    A foot, leg, and thigh bone extending above the height of an office door

    40. Artichokes can be beautiful if you let them bloom:

    Purple spiked thistles above artichoke leaves

    41. This is a preserved 3,500-year-old loaf of bread that was found in an ancient Egyptian tomb from the New Kingdom period:

    It looks very dry and misshapen

    42. This is the bust of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that was used as a model for the design on the dime:

    A large bust of FDR's head

    43. This is what it looks like when your entire bottle of glue dries before you can use it:

    A translucent tube of glue

    44. This is what the OTHER side of a ladybug looks like:

    You can see its little legs and eyes

    45. There are escalators that have tiny little plateaus halfway down:

    Escalator with yellow safety striping on steps; instead of a constant decline to the bottom, the escalator has a section in the middle that runs straight across

    46. Dandelions can be really, really big:

    Close-up of a hand holding a large dandelion seed head with a grassy field and trees in the background

    47. And safety pins can be huge:

    A person's hand holding a large metal safety pin against a home interior background

    48. Maple leaves? MAPLE LEAVES? Oh yeah, they can be very, very tiny:

    A tiny red leaf rests in the center of a person's open palm

    49. While we're talking about big things, here's a man with a giant tuna he caught off the coast of Nova Scotia:

    Man standing next to a huge hanging fish, with onlookers in the background. Vintage photo

    50. Somewhere out there are people with only one line on their hand:

    Open hand showing palm with one prominent line, with a black sleeve, indoors near a window with cars outside

    51. There's a bunch of trash left by humans on the moon. In fact, if you really want to know, there are 96 bags of human waste on that big pie in the sky:

    Apollo lunar module leg and astronaut's footprint on the moon's surface

    52. This is what a modern-day banana looks like next to a wild, predomesticated banana that used to be much more prevalent:

    A banana peeled open next to a much smaller, half-sliced banana displaying its unexpected blue-seed-filled interior

    53. In the '70s, Casio made a calculator that also had a lighter in it...a CALCULIGHTER:

    Person holds a vintage calculator with a lit lighter on top, juxtaposing old technology with traditional lighting

    54. This is what it looks like if you excavate and cook all the cookie dough in your ice cream:

    Homemade "pancake" that looks like a crispy, uneven cookie on a floral patterned plate

    55. In addition to the original (Nic Cage voice) Declaration of Independence, a bunch of copies were made and sent to other places. Here's what one of those copies looks like:

    Historical document, presumed to be the Declaration of Independence, displayed under glass

    56. The longest word in the English language is a doozy:

    Image of an open book displaying a long chemical name for a type of protein, noted as the longest word at 1,909 letters

    57. Quadruple-A batteries exist:

    Person's hand holding a small AAAA Energizer battery to show its size compared with fingers

    58. This is what it looks like when molten steel hits the floor:

    Open hand holding three magnetic metal shaving clusters with spiked patterns

    59. Some places have stoplights that let you know how much time is left before they turn green:

    Red traffic light with a timer showing 10 seconds, framed by greenery

    60. And finally, this is what a pack of 110-year-old crayons looks like:

    Vintage Crayola crayons box with six crayons, labeled for educational use