My Mind Is Completely Blown After Seeing These 21 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The First Time

Consider me stupefied.

1. Joe Biden was born closer to the Civil War than today:

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Biden was born almost 80 years ago in 1942, and the Civil War ended in 1865, 77 years before Joe was born.

2. Speaking of which, America hasn't really been around for very long at all:

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3. Neptune looks like it can grant you mystical powers should you ever visit it:

Clearest view we have of Neptune from the James Webb telescope from Damnthatsinteresting

Photo via NASA/ESA/CSA/STS.

4. This is what one of the world's oldest pair of Levi jeans looks like:

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It's from between 1886 and 1902.

5. Tokyo is HUGE:

This is what Tokyo, the largest city on Earth, looks like from a plane. from Damnthatsinteresting

6. Helmets, my boy, helmets do a whoooole lot:

This is why your wear a helmet from Damnthatsinteresting

7. The longest road in the world sure looks exhausting:

The longest road in the world that a person can walk on from Damnthatsinteresting

To be more specific, as redditor TheRIAA put it, this is "the shortest road in the world between the two furthest-apart land/pedestrian-walkable-bridge connected locations."

8. There's a whole lot of garbage in your local dump you don't see:

'Core sample' of a garbage dump showing how deep the trash is piled up from interestingasfuck

9. Picasso just might have listened to the song "Sweet Caroline" when he was alive:

Picasso was alive when Sweet Caroline was released and hopefully jammed out to it at least once. from BarbaraWalters4Scale

10. Wooly mammoth tusks — well, they were really, really big:

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11. North Korean bills get bigger and bigger as they get more valuable:

North Korean money gets bigger the higher the denomination from mildlyinteresting

12. Queen Elizabeth had to endure the world before one of its greatest inventions:

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13. Sometimes you can actually see yourself being shocked or shocking someone:

Captured a picture of me shocking my Gf... from mildlyinteresting

14. This is what an ancient Roman road looked like:

A perfectly preserved section of the Via Flaminia Roman road, discovered at a depth of 0.90m during planning of a new water pipeline in Riano. The Flaminian Way struck north from Rome, over the Apennines to the Adriatic coast. from interestingasfuck

15. Jelly Belly sells its "irregular" jelly beans as "Belly Flops":

Jelly Belly sells all of the rejected misshapen jelly beans as “Belly Flops”. from mildlyinteresting

They're still beautiful to me.

16. Pink lima beans are a thing that exists:

I grew some pink Lima Beans from mildlyinteresting

17. This is Daisuke Inoue, the inventor of one of the world's first karaoke machines:

Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP via Getty Images

Hard to imagine a world without your friends badly singing Britney Spears songs.

18. This is how koalas get weighed:

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19. Some libraries let you rent things other than books and movies:

My local library has a "library of things" for residents to borrow useful household items like toolkits and power washers from mildlyinteresting

20. The Sun isn't even old enough to drink:

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21. And, finally, grumpkins exist:

This grape that looks like a pumpkin from mildlyinteresting

Incredible.