My Brain Is The Size Of A Literal Peanut, So My Mind Was Totally Blown After Seeing These 20 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week

    I had no idea.

    1. This is what Antarctica looks like from the window of a plane:

    Flat-looking, nonverdant scene from an airplane window

    2. This is how large the biggest seed on the planet, the double coconut seed, is compared with a person:

    Someone holding the seed — which looks a bit like the backs of two thighs and buttocks — in front of their face

    3. This is what a minimum security prison in Norway looks like:

    A person sitting in a large room with comfy chairs, sofa, TV, and wood cabinet, table, and seats, and floor

    4. This is what the fossilized skin imprint of a dinosaur looks like:

    A person holding up a gray, flat block with a raised surface with crevices

    5. This is what the Oval Office looks like completely empty:

    The Oval Office without any furniture or books, just the empty built-in bookcases and the wood floor with a zigzag pattern

    6. And here's what it looks like with all that stuff back in it:

    With flags, furniture, curtains, and rugs

    7. Baby owls sleep facedown, on their stomachs:

    Baby owl lying flat facedown on sand or dirt

    8. This is the death mask of Sir Isaac Newton:

    Eyes closed, eyebrows furrowed, and thin lips

    9. This is what a sunset looks like from space:

    A vertical reddish line among the clouds against the curvature of space

    10. This is roughly how many passenger trains there are in the USA compared with Europe:

    A map of the US with a few straight lines, with huge gaps, crisscrossing the country, and Western and Eastern Europe showing a very tangled, extremely dense network of lines, especially in England, France, Austria, and Germany

    11. Sour Skittles in Europe don't have the iconic sour dust on them:

    An open bag of Sour Skittles showing candy-coated Skittles looking like M&M's

    12. This is a tiny, pill-size camera that you swallow so that doctors can get a...well, a very intimate look at your digestive system:

    A hand holding a PillCam capsule

    13. This is how big a size 18 shoe is compared with a can of soda:

    The sneaker is at least three or four times higher than the can

    14. This is what a cabinet full of uranium glass looks like under UV light:

    The cabinet's contents look like glowing, neon-green figurines

    15. This is what the "hand" of a manatee looks like:

    Close-up of a manatee's flipper, showing what look like toes and small hairs on the rough surface

    16. This park has its benches on rails so you can always find shade:

    A backless bench on a thin, winding train track under trees

    17. These are the "Stairs of Death," an extremely steep staircase located in Peru's Huayna Picchu:

    Overhead view of people walking down extremely steep, narrow cobblestone stairs alongside a cobblestone edifice

    18. This is what a $100 bill looked like in 1977, 2003, and 2017:

    Back view of all three: 1977 has an ornate font for "100," 2003 has a simpler font, 2017 has a new illustration of Independence Hall and a redesigned, large vertical "100" in a different font

    19. This is what the inside of a 3 million–gallon water tank looks like:

    An enormous, cavernous empty room with a checkered floor, long poles, and spoked roof

    20. And finally, this is a map of where you can find Venus flytraps in the wild:

    An empty showing the outlines of the US, with only a small border area between North and South Carolina highlighted