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My Microscopic Little Pea Brain Is Totally Blown After Seeing These 22 Absolutely Incredible Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week

All I can say is wow.

1. This is George Hackenschmidt, the man credited with inventing the bench press:

2. For a brief but wondrous moment in time, you could get potatoes from a vending machine:

woman at a vending machine

3. Whiskey, too:

ice cold whiskey

4. This is Chandra Bahadur, the shortest man in recorded history:

him next to a stack of books

5. And here is Chandra Bahadur next to the world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen:

6. This is what the end of the eastern portion of the Great Wall of China looks like:

wall going into the ocean

7. This is what a bunch of fossilized dinosaur eggs look like:

8. There's an abandoned island sitting off the coast of Nagasaki in Japan:

tiny island with abandoned buildings

9. This is Selma Burke, the woman who designed the portrait of Franklin Roosevelt that's still on the dime to this day:

selma next to her design

10. There's a breed of horse known as a Bashkir Curly that has, well, curly hair:

11. I simply must pet:

12. This is the Swiss mini-gun, the smallest working pistol in the world:

13. This is what an ultraviolet picture of the sun looks like:

14. This is the Peel P50, the smallest car ever produced:

woman hanging out the window

15. This is what the back of the Price Is Right wheel looks like:

16. This is the Murchison meteorite, a meteorite found in Australia that formed over seven billion years ago:

17. And, while we're at it, this is what a super tiny meteorite looks like next to a quarter:

about the size of the quarter

18. This is what a professional cyclist's leg looks like after a race:

all muscles bulging

19. Some blood drives will let you know exactly when and where your blood is used to help save a patient:

20. This is a typewriter built specifically for writing musical notation:

21. This is what the view from the top of Mount Rushmore looks like:

22. And, finally, one of the more ridiculous inventions of the 19th century was this, a "mass shaving machine" designed to shave a bunch of men all at once:

men seated in a row to get shaved