I'm An Incredibly Dumb Man So My Brain Was Completely Blown After Seeing These 23 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week

1.This is a BelAZ dump truck, the biggest dump truck in the world:

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Aleksei Podkholzin / Flickr Vision

2.And this is what a person looks like compared to the wheel of the BelAZ dump truck:

That right there is a T R U C K.

That right there is a T R U C K.

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3.Before the invention of RADAR, soldiers used big old Looney Toons-looking contraptions to listen for enemy planes:

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4.Here's another example:

Not sure how you can keep a straight face with those big honkin' ears on.

Not sure how you can keep a straight face with those big honkin' ears on.

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5.This is how big the engines of the Space Shuttle Discovery are compared to a person:

They're huge, folks!

6.This is how much dirtier the ceiling in a smoking area of an airport is compared to the rest of the airport:

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7.This is Mary Katherine Campbell, the winner of the 1923 Miss America contest:

100 years ago, folks!

100 years ago, folks!

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8.Last month shattered the record for simultaneous flights in the sky, with an astonishing 22,000 planes and five million passengers taking to the air. Here's what that looked like:

Notice the no-fly zones.

9.This is what an unfinished escalator looks like:

Neat!

10.This is what $17.5 million stashed away beneath a bed looks like:

Check your beds, people. You never know if there'll be a cool mil or 17 under there.

11.A beluga whale's head is mostly made of fatty tissue...

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Alazor / Getty Images/iStockphoto

12.Which means that the skull of a beluga whale looks like this:

Again, not what I was expecting at all.

Again, not what I was expecting at all.

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13.This, my friends, is what a pregnant guinea pig looks like:

Glorious.

14.This is what a cactus that's been cut in half looks like:

Not sure what I expected, but it wasn't this.

15.This is what the fuel tank that stores all the gasoline beneath the pumps at a gas station looks like:

That's a lot of gas.

16.A pair of sandals was found in the pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb. Here's what they looked like:

Come on, people. Let's make King Tut's sandals 2023's hottest summer fashion accessory.

Come on, people. Let's make King Tut's sandals 2023's hottest summer fashion accessory.

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17.Some salesmen used rocket skates to travel door to door faster in the 1950s:

I assume these didn't catch on for a very boring reason and not that mixing rockets and rollerskates is an absolutely ludicrous idea.

I assume these didn't catch on for a very boring reason and not that mixing rockets and rollerskates is an absolutely ludicrous idea.

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18.This is what a stingray's skeleton looks like:

Beautiful wings on my man there.

Beautiful wings on my man there.

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19.This is what a baby snapping turtle looks like:

It's so cute that you almost forget how much it wants to bite your pinky off.

It's so cute that you almost forget how much it wants to bite your pinky off.

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20.This is what a bottle of Pepto looked like in the 1950s:

You'd need some Pepto for sure after drinking that old Pepto.

21.Some people have small, alien-looking bumps underneath their tongues:

It's known as plica fimbriata and is completely harmless.

22.Finally, and most importantly, there are some breeds of horses that have mustaches:

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23.I'm not kidding:

GJK7AF Gypsy Vanner Horse mare sporting extreme mustache

GJK7AF Gypsy Vanner Horse mare sporting extreme mustache

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24.Incredible:

Life is so beautiful.

Life is so beautiful.

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