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I Have A Brain The Size Of A Peanut, So My Mind Was Totally Blown After Seeing These 23 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week

These pictures are fantastic.

1. This is what one part of the border between Belgium and the Netherlands looks like:

The borderline between Belgium and the Netherlands

2. This is how big an average-sized comet is compared to Paris:

Comparison of a comet to Paris

3. This is Kipekee, a one-of-a-kind spotless giraffe that was born in a Tennessee zoo last month:

Here's another picture of the fabulous Kipekee:

Closeup of a spotless giraffe

4. One of the largest, if not the largest, commercially available bed is the Alaska king, an absolute BEHEMOTH:

Mattress dimensions and bed sizes

5. This is what it looks like in person:

An alaskan king bed

6. According to astronomers, this is the average color of the universe:

"cosmic latte"

7. This is Stephan Bibrowski, otherwise known as Lionel the Lion-faced Man. Stephan had a condition known as hypertrichosis that caused hair to grow up to eight inches long all over his body including, obviously, his face:

Stephan Bibrowski

8. The Nebraska women's volleyball team just set a world record for the most attended women's sporting event of all time, a match against Omaha that was attended by over 92,000 people:

Aerial view of people at a volleyball match

9. This is what a cross-section of a Boeing 747 looks like:

A model of a 747

10. Because they don't allow artificial coloring, American Froot Loops and European Froot Loops are totally different:

Comparison of Hungarian and American Froot Loops

11. Speaking of which, this is what Fanta orange looks like in Europe:

Fanta in Europe

12. This is what a cow molar looks like compared to a human molar:

Comparison of a cow tooth vs. a human tooth

13. This is the top hat Abraham Lincoln was wearing the night he was assassinated:

Abe Lincoln's top hat

14. This is what the cockpit of the now retired supersonic passenger airliner the Concorde looked like:

Concorde cockpit

15. This is the 1955 Mercedes 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe, the most expensive car ever sold:

1955 Mercedes 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe

16. There's a place called Ooh Aah Point at the Grand Canyon:

"Ooh Aah Point"

17. This is what a banana looks like after a year of being left out:

Rotted bananas

18. Watermelons...watermelons can be very, very tiny:

A hand holding a tiny watermelon

19. This is what the start of a river looks like:

the start of a river

20. This is what a python's skeleton looks like:

A snake skeleton

21. This is a map of every hurricane since 1851. Hurricanes do not cross the equator:

Updated map of hurricanes and other tropical cyclones around the world since 1851.

The distribution and intensity of these strong storms varies greatly across the various ocean basins. pic.twitter.com/uWLpaCmWqU

— Dr. Robert Rohde (@RARohde) June 26, 2018
Twitter: @RARohde
Why? Well, because the Coriolis force is not strong enough there for hurricanes to form.

22. This is a display of ancient Egyptian furniture, from sometime around 1,500 BCE:

Ancient furniture

23. And, finally, America is very, very young: