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I'm Pretty Much The Dumbest Guy On Earth So These 22 Absolutely Incredible Pictures Put My Brain In A Blender Immediately After I Saw Them

I sincerely had no idea.

1. This is what Nicolas Cages' father, August Coppola, looked like:

Two men at an event, one in a gray suit with a tie and the other in a red blazer over a white shirt

2. This is how big (or small) France is compared to the United States:

Map highlighting the geographic boundaries of the Midwestern United States

3. This is what store bought strawberries look like compared to strawberries bought at a farmer's market:

Four strawberry halves arranged in a diamond shape on a cutting board

4. This is how big Pluto and its moon Charon are compared to the Earth:

Composite image showing Earth, the Moon, and a second smaller moon against a black space background

5. This is what the control panel of the Spirit of Saint Louis, the plane Charles Lindbergh used on his historic flight across the Atlantic Ocean, looked like:

Close-up of vintage machinery with numbered parts, possibly for maintenance or instructional purposes

6. And this is the chair Charles Lindbergh sat on for his entire 33 hour flight:

Worn-out wicker chair with a torn black seat, set in a rustic room with vintage objects

7. While we're at it, here's a diagram of his entire plane, for reference:

Diagram of the Ryan N-X-211 aircraft with labeled parts and specifications

8. Elephant seals are really, really, really, really big:

Person standing beside a large statue of a seal, which appears to be clapping

9. There are four miles of tunnels 72 feet underneath Tokyo designed to prevent the city from flooding. The whole system is absolutely huge:

Interior of massive underground cistern with towering pillars and people exploring

10. This is what a Fanta from Europe looks like compared to one from the United States:

Two bottles of Fanta, one labeled Taranja and the other Orange, side by side against a black backdrop

11. This is one very, very, very safe example of what a baby's car seat used to look like in the 1950s and 60s:

Folded metal chair lying on a car's back seat

12. Here it is in action:

Woman feeding a child in a vintage car's front seat with tray

13. This is the world's oldest surviving photograph, taken by Nicéphore Niépce in 1827:

"View from the Window at Le Gras" by Nicéphore Niépce

14. Here's what the original, un-enhanced world's oldest picture looks like today:

An old photo in a frame

15. This was the scene aboard the ship The Queen Elizabeth as it brought soldiers back home to New York after World War II ended:

A historical photo of a ship's deck crowded with passengers

16. This is the first prize winning can of string beans from September 1945:

Jar of yellow wax beans with a 'First Prize' ribbon from a 1945 canning fair on a wooden surface

17. Eleven days in October had to be skipped after the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1582:

Calendar app displaying the month of October with dates 24 to 31 visible

18. This smiling fellow is a lab technician hired to observe couples kissing in order to gauge the durability of lipstick:

Two individuals sharing a kiss with a smiling person looking on in the background

19. Tooth crowns don't shine under blacklight like normal teeth:

Close-up of a person's smiling mouth under blue light

20. This is what a egg that's missing a yolk looks like:

A person cracking an egg into a hot pan for cooking

21. This picture straight out of Harold Potter is of the former Cincinnati Public Library, built in 1874 and demolished in 1955:

The old Cincinnati Public Library

22. And, finally, a lot of things had to go exactly right for you to be here:

Image of a text presentation about ancestry, detailing the number of ancestors over generations and prompting reflection on their lives and challenges