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My Microscopic Little Pea Brain Is Totally Blown After Seeing These 19 Absolutely Incredible Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week

Now, these you really need to see.

1. This is what Mount St. Helens looked like before it erupted in 1980, becoming the deadliest volcanic eruption in US history...

Mount St. Helens before it erupted

2. And this is what Mount St. Helens looked like after the 1980 eruption:

Mount St. Helens after the eruption

3. This is what the blowhole on a humpback whale looks like:

A whale's blowhole

4. This is what the Space Shuttle Endeavour looked like as it left Earth and traveled to outer space:

Space Shuttle Endeavour taking off

5. This is Charlotte and Majorie Collyer, a mother and daughter who survived the wreck of the Titanic in 1912:

Charlotte and Majorie Collyer

6. This is what the battleship USS Independence looks like outside of water:

USS Independence

7. This is what a turtle's skeleton looks like:

A turtle skeleton

8. This is what the inside of a hedge looks like:

Inside a hedge

9. This picture, taken in 1925, is the last known photo of a Barbary lion in the wild:

A Barbary lion in the wild

10. This is what the Statue of Liberty looks like from the back:

The back of the Statue of Liberty

11. This is what one college student's dorm room looked like in the 1910s:

A man in his dorm room

12. Traffic lights are absolutely enormous:

A traffic light

13. This is what the bottom of a lily pad looks like:

Bottom of a lily pad

14. Niagara Falls froze over in 1883:

Niagara Falls while it was frozen

15. Curved escalators are a thing that exist:

A curved escalator

16. This is the "American Candy" section in a British gas station:

An American candy section in a foreign store

17. Speaking of which, this is what a freeze-dried Skittle looks like:

Freeze-dried Skittles

18. This is what Gutzon Borglum's original model for Mount Rushmore looked like:

A model for Mount Rushmore

19. And, finally, in 1961, auditions were held for the role of the black cat in the film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat." Lots of black cats showed up:

Women standing with black cats on leashes