Literally Every Single One Of These 20 Pictures Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Week

"Quick, how do I, a nearly 30-year-old American, become a student at an Italian school??"

1. CGI has come a long, long way:

CGI difference between Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 4 (2019) from interestingasfuck

2. This is what a thousand dollar bill looks like:

Customer brought in a 1934 thousand dollar bill. After ten years in banking finally got to see one in person. from interestingasfuck

That's Grover Cleveland on the bill.

3. Modern-day George Washington looks like he has a lot of thoughts on Saltine crackers:

George Aquilla Hardy @GeorgeAquilla

Not sure how to tell people I made the photorealistic George Washington picture so I’m awkwardly roaming the internet now. But... I made it.

09:32 PM - 02 May 2021

Twitter: @GeorgeAquilla

4. This is the violin Wallace Hartley, band leader on the Titanic, played as the ship sank:

Matt Cardy / Getty Images

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

Regular pasta vs premium pasta made on Italian brass die plates from mildlyinteresting

6. Italian students eat better than I ever have:

What 2,50€ gets you in my Public Italian Scool from interestingasfuck

7. Veneers don't glow under blacklight:

I found out my veneers don’t glow in blacklight. from mildlyinteresting

8. This is what the 2002 Scholastic Book Club catalog looked like:

Winter/Spring 2002 - Scholastic Book Clubs Catalog Cover from mildlyinteresting

9. This is a picture of a sunset...on Mars:

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Texas A&M Univ.

Sheesh!

10. Voldemort's first design was absolutely terrifying:

marian @gayrauder

the first design of what voldemort was supposed to look like. thank god they didn’t chose this one... imagine the trauma. i had enough with the screaming book.

04:44 AM - 23 Feb 2020

Twitter: @gayrauder

11. This is what it looks like when a Ferris wheel is being constructed:

Ferris wheel being built from mildlyinteresting

12. The inside of a garbage truck looks really, really complicated:

Cab of a Modern Trash Truck from mildlyinteresting

13. Dentists train on one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen in my life:

This Dentist Training Tool from mildlyinteresting

14. This is what the scalp of the Statue of Liberty looks like from the torch:

Fox Photos / Getty Images

15. As of 2018 there were still three people in the United States living most of their life inside an iron lung because they contracted polio as children:

Kansas City Star / Tribune News Service via Getty Images

16. Aspirin from the 1930s looks like something out of the Harold Potter book series:

i found some 1930's aspirin inside of an abandoned home, original pills too from mildlyinteresting

17. This is what a Coca-Cola bottle from 1975 looked like:

Coke Bottle that hasn’t been opened in near 40 years from interestingasfuck

18. In 1986 the city of Cleveland released 1.5 million balloons at once to set a Guinness World Record:

Bettmann / Bettmann Archive

Not only was it terrible for the environment, but it indirectly led to the death of two people and a whole bunch of animals.

19. This is what a bag of white blood cells looks like:

Here are my removed & genetically modified white blood cells, about to be put back in to hopefully cure my cancer! This is t-cell immunotherapy! from interestingasfuck

And in case you're wondering, OP said last month that they have been cancer free for two years.

20. And, finally, sharks are natural artists:

Jeff Barnaby @tripgore

A shark fitted with a GPS tracker drew a shark in the Atlantic.

01:34 PM - 17 Sep 2022

Twitter: @tripgore

Ain't that neat.