My Dumb Little Brain Is Completely And Totally Blown After Seeing These 22 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The First Time Last Week

    These pictures just get better and better.

    1. Gorilla hands are much, much bigger than human hands:

    a person's hand next to gorilla hands

    2. This is a pair of one of the earliest discovered pairs of socks, made in Egypt in the 5th century:

    old Egyptian socks

    3. This is how big the Eremotherium Laurillardi, also known as the giant ground sloth, was compared to a modern day human:

    A man standing next to a model of a giant sloth

    4. Andrew Jackson was one of the first United States presidents to be photographed. Here he is in 1844:

    Andrew Jackson

    5. This is how big a nuclear cooling tower is compared to a person:

    a person standing next to a nuclear cooling tower

    6. Before the invention of radar, this is one way people used to listen to and detect enemy planes:

    a person using a device to listen to planes

    7. Termite hills can be absolutely gigantic:

    a woman next to a termite hill

    8. See those little specks there? Those are baby octopuses:

    a finger pointing at tiny baby octopuses

    9. If you look at a car seat's heating system with a thermal camera, it looks like this:

    thermal view of a car seat

    10. This pointy thing is what a nuclear bomb actually looks like:

    Soldiers around a nuclear bomb

    11. Screws...screws can be really, really big:

    a giant screw

    12. While we're talking about larger than normal things, check out this giant keyboard:

    a person's hands using a giant keyboard

    13. Space and time is absolutely nuts:

    Neil Armstrong on the moon

    14. Speaking of the moon, here's how big the African continent is compared to the Moon:

    Screenshot of a Reddit post about the moon

    15. This is what a 420-pound dumbbell looks like:

    A giant dumbbell

    16. There is a very real chance that Pablo Picasso listened to the song "Sweet Caroline":

    Screenshot of Pablo Picasso on a google search

    17. A pickle under ultraviolet light looks like something from a fantasy novel:

    a hand holding a pickle under ultraviolet light

    18. Lemons...lemons can be huge:

    a giant lemon

    19. This is how huge the entrance to the Roman Temple of Bacchus is:

    a woman standing at a temple entrance

    20. This is what a car cut in half looks like:

    a car cut in half

    21. This is a tarantula hawk, a wasp whose sting is known to be one of the most painful on planet Earth:

    A tarantula hawk in someone's hand

    22. And, finally, this is what Shaq looks like holding a piece of paper:

    Closeup of Shaq