My Dumb Little Brain Is Totally Blown After Seeing These 20 Incredibly Fascinating Pictures For The First Time Last Week

1.Emu eggs look like something straight out of Game of Thrones:

2.This is what Abraham Lincoln looked like when he became president in 1861...

...and this is what he looked like four short years later, in 1865:

3.This is Pauline Musters, the shortest woman ever to live:

4.In 1933, A.L. Kahn caught a 5,000-pound manta ray off the coast of Florida:

5.Hotels used to have to put up signs explaining that electricity is safe and not to be feared:

6.In 1955 it cost $4.75 to go on 10 rides at Disneyland:

7.In the 1930s, this couple won an Atlantic City dance marathon after dancing for 1,473 hours:

8.And, yes, people did fall asleep standing up while dancing at these marathons:

9.Someone had to hand-carve all of the presidents' eyes on Mount Rushmore:

10.This extremely complicated thing is what the steering wheel of a Formula 1 race car looks like:

11.This is the message then-president Jimmy Carter sent aboard the Voyager spacecraft to any aliens the ship might encounter:

12.California once had a place called the California Alligator Farm where children were encouraged to get up close and personal with alligators and even take them for rides:

13.This terrifying picture is a close-up of a man with Bruce, the mechanical shark created for the movie Jaws:

14.This is what a toucan's skeleton looks like:

15.This is a real 19th-century advertisement for cough medicine with a very special ingredient — heroin:

16.In Las Vegas in 1955, you could purchase a hotel plot for $3 million:

17.In 1926, two students were able to fully dissect an entire intact nervous system from a human body:

18.In 1876, Virgil A. Gates patented the "Moustache Guard," an absolutely brilliant invention for "holding the moustache out of the way of food or liquid while eating or drinking":

19.This is what a 100-year-old marriage certificate looks like:

20.And, finally, most importantly, bananas float in rum but sink in cognac: