You instruct something new every day .

1.This is what a wild peanut growing out of the ground looks like:

2.So many people lose their hats at the Hoover Dam that there’s basically a hat graveyard at the bottom:

3.This is what Mount St. Helens looked like before it erupted in 1980, becoming thedeadliestvolcanic eruption in US history…

4.And this is what Mount St. Helens looked like after the 1980 eruption:

5.This is what economy class on a commercial plane looked like in the 1960s:

6.This is what the inside of a quarter looks like:

7.This is what the blowhole on a humpback whale looks like:

8.Redwood trees are really, really, really, really big:

9.In some lines of work, you cannot carry a cellphone with a camera. This is what an iPhone with no camera looks like:

10.This is what a hummingbird egg looks like compared to an ostrich egg:

11.This is what the Statue of Liberty looks like from the back:

12.This, in all its 1912 glory, is what a first-class suite looked like on the ship:

13.Some libraries tell you just how much using them has saved you. Spoiler alert, my friend — it’s a lot:

14.In some places you can buy BAGS of cooking oil:

15.Avocado pits… well, they can be very tiny:

16.This is a sunfish…

17.And this is what the skeleton of a sunfish looks like:

18.While we’re talking ‘tons, this is what a penguin’s skeleton looks like:

19.This is what a stairwell that doesn’t loop around and only goes in one direction looks like:

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

21.Helmets really, really work:

22.This is what the inside of a Coca-Cola Freestyle machine looks like:

23.In a French deck of playing cards, instead of seeing J, Q, and K, you’ll see V, D, and R:

24.Texas makes Europe look super small:

25.And, finally, there are vending machines at the top of Japan’s Mount Fuji:

Close-up of a small green plant sprouting from the ground, breaking through a seed shell with wood mulch surrounding it

A tall, beige-walled structure with a litter-strewn area and drainage grate at the base

A blurry photograph of a snow-capped mountain with forests at its base. No visible persons or text

Mount St. Helens after the eruption

A very wide plane interior with two aisles and rows of four comfy-looking seats in the center and two or three seats on the side

Inside of a quarter

A snorkeler floats in the ocean near a surfacing whale with barnacles on its head, close to a boat

A woman standing next to a redwood

A hand holding an ostrich egg and a hummingbird egg

The back of the Statue of Liberty

A modest room with a full-size bed, rug, and three not very comfy-looking chairs and a small table

Library receipt showing savings: Total items: 31. You've saved $820.69 using your library card. Annual savings $5,413.94, total savings $17,846.79

Bags of 1-liter cooking oil sitting on a grocery store shelf, priced at 256.00 of the local currency

Sliced avocado with a small pit and some chopped tomatoes on a green cutting board

A person in a Santa Claus costume SCUBA dives next to a large sunfish inside an aquarium, creating a festive underwater scene

A museum display featuring the preserved body of a fish and a skeletal structure of another aquatic creature, both suspended in glass cases

A penguin skeleton

A steep, seemingly endless series of steps leading upward

Haunted Mansion ride

A crushed helmet

A machine with lots of slots showing brands of various beverages

Face cards with different letters

Comparing the size of Texas to Europe

People sitting on benches, watching the sunset near a vending machine outdoor