My Dumb Little Brain Is Completely Blown After Seeing These Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The First Time Last Week

1.This is what a bird getting an x-ray looks like:

Bird resting on a table with wings spread, surrounded by strips of tape forming a square

Stay strong, little one.

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2.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

Folks, do we stan the 2003 $100 bill?

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3.This is what the inside of a commercial airplane looked like in 1926:

Vintage train car interior with a uniformed porter standing in the aisle. Rows of neatly arranged seats and overhead luggage racks are visible

Looks a bit tight.

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4.Here's another cabin of an airplane from around the same time period:

Vintage airplane cabin with passengers in suits and floral upholstered seats, enjoying a relaxing flight atmosphere

Would love to read a newspaper with comically small font in one of these seats.

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5.If you ever look at your airplane window and see this, it means a pilot is dumping fuel:

View of an airplane wing from a window in flight with clear skies and distant landscape below

6.This is what a snowflake looks like under an electron microscope:

Close-up of a microscopic snowflake structure resembling an intricate, geometric pattern

If I gave you one hundred guesses do you think you could have deduced that was a snowflake?

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7.This is what the inside of a water tower looks like:

Industrial storage tank interior with metal railing and ladder, viewed from the bottom. Smooth walls curve upward to a small opening at the top

Would love to chop it up with the boys inside there.

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8.This is what it looked like while Abraham Lincoln's face was under construction during the making of Mount Rushmore:

Workers scale a large unfinished sculpture of a face on a rock cliff, using ropes and ladders for access and safety

Check out the honker on Abe.

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9.There's a highway built on top of apartment buildings in Guiyang City, China:

A road bridge runs through the top floors of a residential building in an urban area. Vehicles are visible on the road

And you thought your neighbors were bad.

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10.This is what the inside of a grenade looks like:

Half a grenade has been removed to reveal what it looks like inside, which features a spring, pin, and a powder at the bottom

Never thought about this.

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11.After World War I, a bunch of officers got together to pay tribute to the fallen horses lost in battle:

Hundreds of soldiers arranged in the shape of a horse's head on a field

What part of the human horse head would you prefer? I'd like to be the nose.

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12.Uranium glass glows under UV light:

A hand holds a glowing green square object in a dimly lit room

13.This is the first digital picture ever created, a close-up of engineer Russell Kirsch's son Walden from 1957:

A low-resolution, grayscale image showing a baby’s face with vertical lines obscuring parts of the image

The picture that launched a billion GIFs.

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14.This is what a six foot block of cheese looks like:

Large cheese wheel on display in a market setting beside counters with various products

Mine eyes have seen the glory.

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15.This is what an ostrich without feathers looks like:

An ostrich with no feathers stands on a path near a white fence, surrounded by greenery and a thatched structure in the background

Spooky.

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16.After 12 years on Mars, the Curiosity rover has a big hole in one of its wheels:

Close-up of a Mars rover's wheel with a large tear, showing damage on a sandy Martian surface

Shout out to Curiosity, forever satiating our... curiosity.

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17.The different ways to say something like "It's the bee's knees" in various languages are incredible:

The other versions include "dog's bollocks" from England, "duck's nuts" from Australia, "cow's vagina" from China, and "baby Jesus in velvet underpants" from France

I gotta give it up to the French here.

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18.This is what happens to a fly that falls in a cup of bleach:

Tiny insect with bubble-like structures, floating in liquid

19.Cashews grow on trees like this:

Person holds a raw cashew fruit and nut in their hand outside on a stone patio

Not sure what I expected.

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20.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

21.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