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I Have A Brain The Size Of A Literal Peanut, So My Mind Was Totally Blown After Seeing These 35 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time Last Month

Check these out — you won't regret it.

1. This is Daniel Lambert, a British man who was known as the world's heaviest person in the 18th century:

Portrait of Daniel Lambert

2. This is the first ever ticket sold for Disneyland:

Disneyland ticket

3. This is a loaf of sourdough bread that was miraculously preserved after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE:

Black bread

4. Once upon a time, beer vending machines were a thing:

A woman using a beer vending machine

Whiskey vending machines, too:

A whiskey vending machine

Not to mention gin and tonic vending machines:

A gin and tonic vending machine

And, saints preserve us, potato vending machines:

A potato vending machine

5. This is a picture of Pluto and its moons taken in 2006...

Pluto

And this is a much, much clearer picture of Pluto taken only a decade later, in 2015:

Pluto

6. Speaking of which, this is one of the first photographs ever taken of the Earth from space...

The earth

And this is a picture of Earth that was taken 20 minutes before this article was published:

The earth

7. Over 2,000 years ago, a child living in ancient Rome made this footprint in a clay tile while it was drying:

A baby footprint

8. This is what a fish getting a CT scan looks like:

A fish getting a CT scan

9. This is what Bruce Lee's workout routine was in 1965:

10. This is Apo Whang-Od, a 106-year-old woman who is quite possibly the oldest tattoo artist on the planet:

Apo Whang-Od

11. This is a hammer-headed bat, an absolutely enormous fruit bat with an average wingspan of over three feet:

A giant bat

12. Speaking of gigantic animals, check out the size of this here lobster claw:

A hand next to a big lobster claw

13. And dandelions, my friend...dandelions can be huge:

A hand holding a dandelion

14. Squids have hard, sharp beaks:

Closeup of a squid

And this is what a giant squid's beak looks like:

A giant squid's beak

15. This is what one part of the border between Belgium and the Netherlands looks like:

The borderline between Belgium and the Netherlands

16. This is how big an average-sized comet is compared to Paris:

Comparison of a comet to Paris

17. This is the executioner robe and axe of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, the official executioner of the Papal States in the 1800s:

Executioner garb

18. One of the largest, if not the largest, commercially available bed is the Alaska king, an absolute BEHEMOTH:

Mattress dimensions and bed sizes

This is what it looks like in person:

An alaskan king bed

19. According to astronomers, this is the average color of the universe:

"cosmic latte"

20. This is Stephan Bibrowski, otherwise known as Lionel the Lion-faced Man. Stephan had a condition known as hypertrichosis that caused hair to grow up to eight inches long all over his body including, obviously, his face:

Stephan Bibrowski

21. The Nebraska women's volleyball team just set a world record for the most attended women's sporting event of all time, a match against Omaha that was attended by over 92,000 people:

Aerial view of people at a volleyball match

22. This is what a cross-section of a Boeing 747 looks like:

A model of a 747

23. Because they don't allow artificial coloring, American Froot Loops and European Froot Loops are totally different:

Comparison of Hungarian and American Froot Loops

24. Speaking of which, this is what Fanta orange looks like in Europe:

Fanta in Europe

25. This is what a cow molar looks like compared to a human molar:

Comparison of a cow tooth vs. a human tooth

26. This is the top hat Abraham Lincoln was wearing the night he was assassinated:

Abe Lincoln's top hat

27. This is what the cockpit of the now retired supersonic passenger airliner the Concorde looked like:

Concorde cockpit

28. This is the 1955 Mercedes 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe, the most expensive car ever sold:

1955 Mercedes 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe

29. There's a place called Ooh Aah Point at the Grand Canyon:

"Ooh Aah Point"

30. This is what a banana looks like after a year of being left out:

Rotted bananas

31. Watermelons...watermelons can be very, very tiny:

A hand holding a tiny watermelon

32. This is what the start of a river looks like:

the start of a river

33. This is what a python's skeleton looks like:

A snake skeleton

34. This is a display of ancient Egyptian furniture, from sometime around 1,500 BCE:

Ancient furniture

35. And, finally, America is very, very young:

"This is deeply disturbing for me I don't know why"