I'm An Incredibly Dumb Man, So My Mind Was Completely Blown After Seeing These 21 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week

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1.This is Conrad Veidt, the man whose performance in the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs inspired the look of the iconic villain the Joker:

A man with a huge grin, shiny lipstick, gleaming teeth, and slicked-back hair

Yeah...I can see it.

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2.This is what a 3-year-old Albert Einstein looked like:

A serious-looking child with ankle boots, a dress suit, and tie leans on a chair

I hate to break it to you, but chances are that 3-year-old was smarter then than you are today.

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3.This is the Pesse canoe, the oldest boat on Earth:

A weathered, long piece of wood

4.In 1990, the very first McDonald's opened up in the Soviet Union. This is how gigantic the line was:

A very long, winding line extending into a bigger crowd surrounds a McDonald's
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5.Following the invasion of Ukraine, McDonald's sold its entire Russian operation to a Russian businessperson, resulting in over 800 restaurants being rebranded as "Delicious. Full Stop":

The same store without the McDonald's logo and far fewer people outside

Here's a comparison between the two restaurants, 32 years apart.

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6.This is a billboard that was posted outside of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a town established as a manufacturing site as part of the Manhattan Project:

A billboard with an Uncle Sam–type figure above three monkeys (each covering their eyes, ears, or mouth) with the words, "What you see here what you do here what you hear here when you leave here let it stay here"

Very intense, minus the monkeys.

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7.This is the Ain Sakhri figurine, an 11,000-year-old sculpture that is the world's oldest depiction of sex:

A sculpture with two raised mounds on top and the outline of legs wrapped around another torso on the bottom

Sorry to get things steamy in here.

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8.The Titanic had a gym on board. This is what it looked like:

A room with wood paneling, some stationary bikes and what looks like a rowing machine
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9.And this is what one of the exercise bikes inside the Titanic gym looked like:

A woman wearing a long dress, coat, and ornate hat sits on an exercise bike next to a man also on a bike and looks at the camera

We should bring back exercising in 1912 garb.

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10.The tiny island of Zavikon is home to the world's shortest international bridge, spanning from the owner's house, located in Canada, to their backyard, located in New York:

Two small islands, one with a house on it, connected by a bridge

Man, and I don't even have a backyard.

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11.This is what it looked like in 1937 on the first day cars were allowed on the Golden Gate Bridge:

Six lanes packed with very old cars, most of them black, on the bridge

Looks like a fun and relaxing time.

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12.This is what the capstone on the top of an ancient Egyptian pyramid looked like:

A capstone with a few cracks, hieroglyphics, and some chunks of material missing

This would, of course, go on top of a pyramid.

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13.That capstone in particular belonged to the ruined black pyramid of Amenemhat III. Here's what the pyramid looks like today:

The pyramid looks like a mountain with its softened top

Folks, do we stan Amenemhat III, the greatest pharoah of Egypt's Middle Kingdom?

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14.This is Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls while inside a barrel:

A woman in a high-necked, long dress with long sleeves and ornate hat standing next to a "Queen of the Mist" barrel

15.There used to be cocaine in toothache drops:

An ad with illustrations of two children playing that says, "Cocaine toothache drops / Instantaneous Cure! / Price 15 cents / Prepared by the Lloyd Manufacturing Co 219 Hudson Ave, Albany NY / For sale by all Druggists"

And judging by the ad, it was given to children. Okay, then!

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16.This is a picture of the opening of the very first New York City subway back in 1904:

Men in top hats sitting in an open carriage and standing on the tracks and the platform

Would love to party with these guys.

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17.Fingers can grow back. FINGERS CAN GROW BACK:

Caption saying that they cut off their two fingertips with a hatchet seven years ago and they grew back because it was just above the nail matrix, with an image of two fingers, with a slight ridge around the nail bed

18.People used to move houses with a whole bunch of horses:

Columns of horses pulling a house, with lots of men on horseback

I'm talking a whole LOT of horses.

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19.This picture, taken in 1882, shows the Statue of Liberty in the early stages of its construction in France:

Men standing around the interior of an edifice with lots of debris around and the statue's arm visible on one side

Neat!

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20.This is William Hutchings, one of the last surviving American Revolutionary War veterans:

He's 100 in the portrait and looks very old, with some white, longish hair and wearing a suit, vest, and bow tie, with caption "William Hutchings, aged 100, one of the survivors of the revolution; entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864"

He was 100 in this picture. Shoutout Bill.

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21.And, finally, people were talking about climate change as long as 111 years ago:

Newspaper column dated Aug 14, 1912, with headline "Coal consumption affecting climate": "The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year," and the effects of the Earth warming "may be considerable in a few centuries"