Literally Each And Every One Of These Pictures Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Week

1.This is Ralph Lincoln, the 11th generation cousin of Abraham Lincoln:

Closeup of Ralph Lincoln

Specifically, his third cousin many, many, many times removed.

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2.This is the Speyer wine bottle, the oldest known bottle of wine on Earth:

Speyer wine bottle

3.This pointy thing is what a nuclear bomb actually looks like:

Soldiers around a nuclear bomb

4. The geographic center of the United States is here in South Dakota:

Belle Fourche, to be exact.

5. Bees in a specific part of North Carolina produce purple honey:

It's apparently due to elderberries.

6.This is what Queen Elizabeth II looked like when she was 18:

Young Queen Elizabeth II
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7.This isn't photoshop — it's Vantablack, one of the darkest substances on Earth:

8.This is what an empty Boeing 787 looks like:

An empty Boeing 787
Boeing

9. The meal on ANA Airlines is nicer than anything I have ever eaten:

10.Recognize these big ol' rocks? This is Mount Rushmore before the Presidential heads were carved into it:

Closeup of Mt. Rushmore
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11.This is what the surface of an ASTEROID looks like:

12. It's possible to be born without finger printers. This is what that looks like:

13. Those little corn holders are just loose nails:

14. This is what a ticket to the 2000 Olympics looks like:

15. Back in the 1970s, Big Macs looked like this:

What a beautiful fossil.

16. This is what the difference between a homegrown and a store-bought zucchini is:

17. After Queen Elizabeth's death, all new mailboxes in the UK will have CR on them instead of VR:

VR stands for Victoria Regina and CR, aka Charles Rex.

18. American gummy worms and Australian gummy worms are super different:

19. And, finally, sometimes miracles happen: