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My Microscopic Little Pea Brain Is Totally Blown After Seeing These 21 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week

I am straight up mesmerized.

1. This is what the view of downtown Manhattan looked like from the Empire State Building the year it opened in 1931...

2. And this is what that same view looks like today:

3. Speaking of New York City, this home used to sit on West 84th Street and Broadway in 1874. It's also where Edgar Allen Poe (probably) wrote The Raven:

4. This, my friends, is what the inside of a bag of microwave popcorn looks like:

5. This is how good Disney World is at hiding their rides, specifically the Haunted Mansion:

6. This is what a Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying animal ever recorded, looks like compared to a human:

7. Speaking of giant extinct animals, this is how big the largest shark that ever lived, the Megalodon, was compared to a human:

8. This is what the control room on a British submarine looked like in the 1960s:

9. This is a picture of 107-year-old Civil War veteran Bill Lundy posing with a fighter jet in 1955:

10. This is what a tumbleweed looks like before it...tumbles:

11. The inside of a fire alarm is just a tiny little switch:

12. Notre Dame cathedral used to have a parking lot out front:

13. This is the last picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever taken, snapped just one day before his death:

14. And, just for fun, this is a picture of FDR as a baby:

15. Here's a different perspective on Earth centered around Antarctica:

16. This is what a penguin's skeleton looks like:

17. This is Hannah Stilley Gorby, the oldest person to ever have been photographed:

18. This is Methuselah, the oldest tree in the world:

19. This is what the back of a bowling alley lane looks like:

20. This is Ham, the first chimpanzee in space, enjoying a celebratory apple after successfully making it 160 miles above Earth:

21. And, finally, stop signs can be very, very, very, very, very tiny: