My Dumb Little Brain Just Got Turned To Mush After Seeing These 23 Absolutely Mind Blowing Pictures For The First Time Last Week

    Well, that is very, very interesting.

    1. This is what a living sand dollar looks like compared with a dead one:

    A large, brown, flat circular sea urchin and a smaller, white one with small slits

    2. Alaska is big. REALLY big:

    3. This is what a peeled lemon looks like:

    4. This is what the skull of the largest ape to ever roam the Earth, the gigantopithecus, looks like compared to our tiny little human head:

    5. This is what the Roman empire at its greatest extent looks like compared to North America:

    6. This is what the inside of a Coca-Cola Freestyle machine looks like:

    A machine with lots of slots showing brands of various beverages

    7. American Froot Loops and Froot Loops from other countries are totally different colors:

    8. There are pants that shine INCREDIBLY bright when hit with light:

    9. The inside of a pine cone makes me somewhat uncomfortable:

    What look like hollow bones or even eyes inside the pine cone

    10. While we're at it, this is what the inside of a wasp's nest looks like:

    Inside of a wasp nest showing what looks like rows of honeycomb

    11. This is what the Eiffel Tower looked like while it was being built:

    12. It snowed a whole lot in Norway last week:

    13. This is the aftermath of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919, a deadly event that claimed the lives of 21 people in Boston after a container holding over two million gallons of molasses burst, sending a wave of molasses several feet high through the city streets:

    14. Some houses have little metal corners to make dusting easier:

    15. This man, Paul Karason, had his skin turn permanently blue after spending years ingesting colloidal silver:

    Closeup of Paul Karason

    16. A lot of exciting stuff happened in 1889:

    17. Bottles of soda look adorable before they get blown up with compressed air:

    Small tubes in the palm of a hand

    18. Marisa Tomei's name can do amazing things:

    "Marisa Tomei" as an anagram for "It's-a me, Mario"

    19. This is what a polar bear's paw print looks like compared with a human handprint:

    A polar bear paw print next to a much, much smaller handprint in the snow

    20. This is what a $1,000 bill looks like:

    21. South Korea and Ireland are almost the same size, although South Korea has 10 times Ireland's population:

    Side-by-side of South Korea and Ireland (with Northern Ireland)

    22. Some vegan chicken wings have little wooden "bones" in them:

    Someone holding a vegan chicken wing with the interior visible, showing a wooden bone

    23. And, finally, this is what a mustache shaved clean off looks like: