Okay, Literally Every Single One Of These 19 Things I Just Found Out Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Week

My brain is blown.

1. Gorillas are built like TANKS compared to humans:

Human skeleton and gorilla skeleton side by side from interestingasfuck

2. The McDonald's in Montrose, Colorado only has one arch:

This McDonald’s restaurant in the town where I’m staying only has 1 arch. from mildlyinteresting

3. This is what a piece of the moon and a piece of Mars looks like:

Holding pieces of the Moon and Mars at the same time from interestingasfuck

Read and see more here.

4. This is Ruth Malcolmson, the woman who won the 1924 Miss America pageant:

George Rinhart / Corbis via Getty Images

5. If you don't move your finger for a long time you, can lose the crease:

Starting to lose the first joint crease on my ring finger after being splinted for 7 weeks from mildlyinteresting

6. In Texas, you can get ammunition for the price of a gum ball:

Ammunition gum-ball machine in Texas. from Damnthatsinteresting

7. Toilet paper from the early 20th century looked very, very uncomfortable:

Early 1900’s toilet paper from interestingasfuck

It fact, it would often give your rear-end SPLINTERS.

8. Purple peppers proudly present periodically:

These purple hot peppers from mildlyinteresting

9. Medicine in the 1800s was absolutely wild:

Medicine ingredients from the 1880’s from Damnthatsinteresting

Chloroform and cannabis. Mama mia!

10. Big lighters are just small lighters in disguise:

Opened up a lighter and there was just another lighter inside from mildlyinteresting

11. Some planes have put a no electronics sign in place of their no smoking signs:

They replaced the no smoking sign with a no electronics sign. from mildlyinteresting

12. Jupiter looks absolutely bonkers:

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSImage processing by Prateek Sarpal, © CC NC SA

13. The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:

'Recently introduced words' from an English dictionary published in 1900 from Damnthatsinteresting

Some big ones in there.

14. Waterproof casts exist and look pretty sweet:

I got a waterproof cast on my ankle today. from mildlyinteresting

15. This is what Antarctica looks like from space:

Antarctica from space from Damnthatsinteresting

Read more about how this image was made here.

16. Squash? Well, squash can be huge:

This squash I grew in my garden. from interestingasfuck

17. It was almost impossible NOT to look bad on a report card from the 1920s:

Report card from my great-grandfather in 1926 from mildlyinteresting

18. There's still a whole bunch of Y2K stickers floatin' around out there:

I've been holding onto a stack of "Y2K Compliant" stickers since 1999. from mildlyinteresting

19. And, finally, sometimes rocks can look like a delicious potato:

This rock that looks like a baked potato. from mildlyinteresting

Mmmmm...forbidden potato.