Okay, I'll Be Honest: Literally Every Single One Of These Pictures Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Month

1.Just last month the world population surpassed 8 billion humans. 8 BILLION!

2.This is what the end of 13,000 miles of the Great Wall of China looks like:

3.This painting by Leonardo da Vinci is the most expensive painting ever sold:

4.This is what a license plate from Antarctica looks like:

5.This is how big a giant squid is compared with a human being:

6.This is the Queensland Stinger, one of the world's most dangerous plants:

7.Here's a closer look:

8.This, wicker chairs and all, is what the interior of a plane looked like in 1925:

9.This adorable little thing is a hummingbird's feather:

10.This is what an elephant's tail looks like close up:

11.And this is what one of those tail hairs looks like up close:

12.This is Rumeysa Gelgi, the world's tallest woman:

13.This is Maurice Tillet, a wrestler who some say the beloved character Shrek was based on:

14.This is a wax sculpture of Thomas Wedders, the man whose 7.5-inch nose was apparently the largest nose in history:

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

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

17.Baby zebras are born with brown stripes before they eventually turn black:

18.This boat, known as Boomin' Beaver, is apparently the smallest ship in the US Navy:

19.This is what the Eiffel Tower looked like as it was being built:

20.This is Big Jake, the world's tallest horse:

21.And this is the world's tallest statue, the Statue of Unity:

22.This is how big Plymouth Rock is in real life:

23.A normal-size piece of paper looks incredibly tiny when held by Shaq:

24.This is Margaret Gorman, the woman who won the very first Miss America competition in 1921:

25.UPS drivers have special UPS socks as part of their uniform:

26.This is what your sinuses look like:

27.In 2011, Peter Glazebrook grew the world's largest onion, which weighed in at 18 pounds:

28.And here's my man again in 2015 at the World's Heaviest Marrow competition with his 115-pound big boy:

29.This is a screenshot of the Silk Road, the infamous black market on the dark web, before it was taken down:

30.This is a close-up of some well-worn pebbles on the surface of Mars:

31.This particular breed of sheep, known as hissar, is famous for its large, ample buttocks:

32.This is Samantha Ramsdell, the woman with the world's largest mouth gape:

33.This is how big Greenland actually is compared with how big it appears on most maps:

34.They sell red Solo cups as "American party cups" in New Zealand:

35.This is what the Mayan temple at Chichen Itza looked like before it was restored:

36.And this is what it looks like today:

37.This man, Gay Jewel, was declared the "world's heaviest man" in 1899:

38.Pilots get special cups on airplanes:

39.This thing here is a sculpture of a cucumber from the Egyptian Middle Kingdom:

40.This is a record of everyone who died and how they died in London during one week in 1665:

41.Before he was James Bond, Sean Connery competed in the Mr. Universe pageant in 1953:

42.This is how much every act performing at Woodstock in 1969 was paid:

43.This is how big the engines on the Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon were compared to engineer Wernher von Braun:

44.This is what a completely empty CVS store looks like:

45.In 1966, a blizzard in North Dakota saw snow drifts reach up to 40 feet. This is what that looked like:

46.Lemons float, limes sink. LEMONS FLOAT, LIMES SINK!

47.See that little hole there? This is what Mount Vesuvius looks like from space:

48.This is what a 30-year-old cat looks like:

49.This is what the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, looked like from the ground:

50.This right here is what one of the Titanic's lifeboats looked like before the passengers were rescued:

51.Here's a list of every named generation going back to the 1400s:

52.This is just a small sample of what researchers found in King Tut's tomb after discovering it in 1922:

53.Human touch really does a doozy on any and every kind of surface:

54.A fire alarm is...just a switch!

55.Have you ever looked closely at the backs of a cat's legs? There are whiskers there called carpal whiskers:

56.Before alarm clocks, people known as Knocker-Ups would get paid to go around in the early hours of the morning and bang on windows to wake people up:

57.This enormous disk is what 10 MB of data looked like in the 1960s:

58.Black paper towels exist:

59.Every single letter in the alphabet appears in a least one US state...except for the letter Q:

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

61.This is Ham the chimpanzee, the first ape launched into space:

62.This is a picture from Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration in 1865. Can you spot him?

63.Some airports have bathrooms specifically for service animals. This is what they look like:

64.Speaking of Lincoln, this man, Valentine Tapley, vowed in 1860 to never cut his beard again if Abraham Lincoln was elected president. Here's him in 1896:

65.And, again, just for good measure, here's Hans N. Langseth, winner of the world's longest beard competition in 1922:

66.This is what the head of an ant looks like super, super close up:

67.And finally...

68.This is Maud Wagner, who is widely believed to be the first female professional tattoo artist in the US:

69.These are the real-life outfits doctors would wear to treat plague patients in the 1600s:

70.This is what a 100-sided die looks like:

71.Before CGI, this is how MGM filmed its iconic movie intro:

72.You know, this one:

73.There's a movie theater in Switzerland that lets you rent out beds to watch a movie in:

74.This year, the Pabst Brewing Co. sold an 1,844-can pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon to commemorate the beer's founding in 1844:

75.And, finally, there's an ancient Egyptian statue at the Field Museum in Chicago that looks just like Michael Jackson: