ASML's latest chipmaking machine, weighs as much as two Airbus A320s and costs $380 million

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This is why your wear a helmet

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Christina Koch and Victor Glover are set to become the first woman and black man to go on a Moon mission.

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Aleksander Doba. He has kayaked solo across the Atlantic 3 times, most recently in 2017 at the age of 70.

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Grandpa still got moves

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The day of Einstein’s death, while all other photographers and journalists rushed to the hospital to report on his death, only one photographer, Ralph Morse, went to Einstein’s office. He was allowed to go into the office to take the now iconic picture of Einstein’s desk as he had left it

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The legendary Soviet Georgian water polo player Pyotr Mshvenieradze with his grandson, 1990s

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Paths of 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over

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Some very interesting Victorian era slangs

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Taiwan shows massive balls by sending Ukraine 27 tons of medical supplies

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Suicide Rate per 100,000 population in 2019

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This clever billboard

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Coming or going this dumper gets the job done.

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Biracial twin sisters born to a white father and a half-Jamaican mother

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Vilnius has put up a statue that offers a “portal” to the Polish city of Lublin, allowing people to see each other in real time

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A van contained protest material has been confiscated at King’s coronation.

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This bar decorated its bar top with the confiscated fake IDs of college students.

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I present to you Temar Boggs

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Ella Harper, aka Camel Girl, was born with a rare condition that caused her knees to bend backward. Because of this condition, she had to walk on all fours, earning her the nickname “Camel Girl.” Though it was difficult at first, she made a fortune out of it. She earned a weekly wage of $200 in 1886

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A German general and a young Soviet boy who took him prisoner.

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The Super Giga Chad

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The Great Eared Nightjar is pretty much a dragon bird.

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The migration patterns of Native Americans

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The many layers of Donald Duck...

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What it could be?

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Marianne Bachmeier avenged her 7-year-old daughter’s rape-murder when she opened fire in a crowded courtroom trial, killing the murderer 1981

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Saigon in 10 ish years

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Flooding outside (and in) NYC apartment, 9/29

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New Photo of the Alaska Boeing 737 after depressurization. The Airplane in question was very newly delivered from Boeing

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Dropping fish from the sky: aerial restocking of remote mountain lakes in Utah

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Abbye ‘Pudgy’ Stockton (physical culture promotor, writer, bodybuilder, strongwoman and athlete) 1917-2006. Lifting 135 at pounds at 115-20 herself, on Muscle beach california. possible 1940s. Pudgy was a nickname from childhoo. and yes the photo is signed by her.

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Couple Will Live On Cruise Ship For The Rest Of Their Lives As It Is Cheaper Than Paying Their Mortgage

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Best Buy is removing all physical media from their stores as of today.

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In 1977, Bill Gates was arrested for a traffic violation. The outline of his mugshot would go on to be used as the default profile pic for Outlook 2010.

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A female Nazi guard laughing at the Stutthof trials and later executed , a camp responsible for 85,000 deaths. 72 Nazi were punished , and trials are still happening today. Ex-guards were tried in 2018, 2019, and 2021.

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In honor of the Queen Victoria photobombing post, here’s a dress she wore in 1892.

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When the euro banknotes were 1st designed in 2002, they featured fictional bridges, so as not to cause a row amongst EU member countries. Ten years later an architect for the Dutch town of Spijkenisse claimed them all for the Netherlands by building them ALL on a single waterway

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True Gentleman!

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Screenshot I took of the Silk Road site over 10 years ago. It was insane.

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Reconstruction of the Pharoah Tutankhamun from a BBC documentary.

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Which of the following animals, if any, do you think you could beat in a fight if you were unarmed?

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Sydney Opera House Design Candidates

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Stuart Townsend (27) was in his second day of filming The Lord of the Rings when director Peter Jackson replaced him with Viggo Mortensen (41).

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Mr. Noble Prize winner ( the mad man)

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Where do 8 billion people live?

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A man sued Pepsico after the company refused to redeem his 7,000,000 Pepsi Points for a AV-8 Harrier jump jet as advertised in their commercial

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A group of psychiatrists watched 400 different movies to see which had the most accurate portrayal of a psychopath. Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men was number 1. Hannibal Lecter and Patrick Bateman were both described as unrealistic

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Japan's system of self-sufficiency

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The longest living person was born in 1875 and lived until 1997. This means she watched as cars went from picture #1 to picture #2.

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Steve Jobs wasn’t super honest

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To give you an idea of just how large Saturn’s “hexagon” storm is

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A mother once called into PBS, asking if Mr. Rogers could send an autograph to her daughter. She was suffering from seizures and set to have brain surgery. When Mr Rogers heard about it, he flew to see her in the hospital. He even brought his puppets along.

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Chuck Feeney is the billionaire who gave it all away. After spending his life working tirelessly to accumulate a fortune of $8 billion, his net worth dropped down to $2 million in 2020 after donating 99% of his wealth to charitable causes.

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Flowery landscapes of Hokkaido, Japan

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Mike Tyson once offered a zookeeper $10,000 to open the gate so he could go in the pen and fight the gorilla who has bullying the other primates. Tyson’s offer was turned down.

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Artist Robin Eley makes paintings that look like they’re wrapped in plastic. This is 100% paint, no plastic is present.

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70 years ago today, the United States learned about Stalin’s death for the first time when a 21 year old Air Force Staff Sergeant intercepted a coded message from Russia. That sergeant was none other than legendary signer/songwriter - Johnny Cash.

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This guy is wearing a 4 kilo pure gold shirt worth $211,000

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San Francisco votes to approve robots to use deadly force

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Dewey the cat died in 1910 and meant enough to his owner to be honored with a gravestone that stands today over a 113 years later

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Cell in San Quentin state prison, California

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It's that simple

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Family in 1892 posing with an old sequoia tree nicknamed Mark Twain - A team of two men spent 13 days sawing away at it in the Pacific Northwest - It once stood at 331 feet tall with a diameter of 52 feet - The tree was 1,341 years old

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Never knew the value of PPI (pixels per inch) till I saw this comparison of a tablet and a laptop

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The reason Beluga's Melons are so squishy is cause it's all just soft lipids for sonar.

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A 2000-year-old Roman silver dagger, that was discovered by an archeology intern in 2019 in Germany, before and after nine months of careful restoration work

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Deaf Grandmother teaching 9 weeks old deaf baby sign language

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Damn that's Efficient

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Ben L. Salomon, a U.S. Army dentist during WW2. During the Battle of Saipan, when the Japanese started overrunning his hospital, he stood a rear-guard action, allowing the safe evacuation of the wounded, he killed 98 enemy troops before being killed himself. In 2002, he was given the Medal of Honor.

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Okay, we never believed superpowers were real, but this is awsome!

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Tribal rep George Gillette crying as 154,000 acres of land is signed away for a new dam in North Dakota in 1948

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New Zealand's Department of Conservation spend 8 months and $500,000 (around 300,000USD) to track down kill this single stoat.

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Design for cross country road trips

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When you reach 100 years old in Barbados, you get a stamp in your honour.

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Amazing!

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A watch found in the Hiroshima rubble is stopped at 8:15 AM, the exact time of the 1945 atomic bomb detonation.

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Alexander the Great was likely buried alive. His body didn’t decompose until six days after his declared “death.” It’s theorized he suffered from Gillian-Barre Syndrome (GBS), leaving one completely paralyzed but yet of sound mind and consciousness.

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Soldiers paying tribute to the 8 million Horses, Donkeys, and Mules that lost their lives during World War I, 1918

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Cool hidden Easter egg in Futurama.(explaintion in comments)

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Not all heroes wear capes

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Everyone hates getting wet

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Amir Tataloo, Iranian singer's transformation in 6 years

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South African mine workers being x-rayed by radiologists at the end of each shift before leaving the De Beers diamond mines in Kimberley, South Africa, 1954. This was done to prevent even the smallest of diamonds from being smuggled out of the mine via the stomach.

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All the countries mentioned in the Polish anthem 🇵🇱

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Diver encounters ‘ghostly fish’ that is almost fully transparent

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Juliane Koepcke - 17 years old Survived after thrown out of plane in amazon for 10 days

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Usain Bolt racing in reduced gravity

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My mom sent me this totally normal photo of my dad holding me right after I was born...

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Vertical staircase in Brazil

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A Texas dad sold off his business to build a theme park nonprofit

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CT scan of Apple AirPods vs two counterfeits

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Secretary birds are famous for its snake-stomping legs; a single kick delivered some 195 Newtons of force. They are also famous for their long eyelashes.

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A quote from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Jefferson being the American founding father that physically wrote down the founding documents.

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The inside of the Leaning Tower Of Pisa...

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This diver dude just found an 11thC crusader sword in the sea near Israel

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For the first time in history, Australia will soon have decimal coins in circulation bearing the face of a monarch other than Queen Elizabeth II. This is because Elizabeth II has been Queen for the entire time Australia has had decimal currency.

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Nutmeg, the world's oldest cat, celebrating his 31st birthday. (141 in human years)

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A scientists takes a sample of water from a mine deep underground in Ontario, Canada. The water turned out to be 2.6 billion years old, the oldest known water on Earth

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Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is often described as the world's youngest political prisoner. In 1995, he was chosen to be the Panchen Lama, Tibetan Buddhism's 2nd highest authority and selector of the next Dalai Lama. The 6-year-old was then kidnapped by the Chinese government and hasn't been seen since.

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Massive bluefin tuna weighing more than 500 pounds reels in almost $800,000 at Tokyo auction

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In 1962, an Italian magazine published a story previewing what the world could look like in 2022

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Lego tensegrity

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This is Sealand, the smallest country in the world! (according to their gov website) The have their own flag, money,government and you need a passport to go there.

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Sofia Posmysz's mugshot after being arrested for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. She was sent to Auschwitz but survived 2 concentration camps and today is 98 .

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Laurence Tureaud named himself professionally as Mr. T because he hated how his father, uncle, and brother who returned from Vietnam, were disrespectfully called boy by whites. He wanted the first word from everybody's mouth to be Mister when speaking to him.

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A Hesco armor plate that managed to stop a 7.62x54r round, saving this Ukrainian soldiers life. After this, Hesco offered to donate a replacement to him.

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Rosa Parks Connection to Little Caesars Pizza

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Open roof living room in a traditional villa in Saudi Arabia

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A family stands before a 1,341-year-old Sequoia tree known as “Mark Twain,” which was cut down in 1892 in the Pacific Northwest. The tree, towering at 331 feet (100 meters) in height, was brought down by a pair of men who worked for 13 days to saw it.

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This E-Bike is Lit.

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Cyclists at the Tour de France in the 1920s smoking cigarettes. It was thought that cigarette smoking expanded the lungs, and helped with endurance

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Jensen Huang, CEO and founder of Nvidia and Lisa su, President and CEO of AMD are cousins.

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10,000 Muslim soldiers from Chechnya are on their way to Kiev to help Russia. Not something people would have guessed.

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John Hume - South African Rhinobreeder

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Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graudation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships.

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The way this BF-109s camouflage blends it into the African desert. (North Africa, WW2)

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This door inside Chernobyl still gives me the creeps [OC]

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Pokemon Halloween Costume

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This kid was born with natural white frontal hairs, blue eyes and a lightning-like mark across his face.

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Only took me 20 years to realize

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Daniel Kordan Accidentally Photographed A Meteor While Capturing An Erupting Volcano.

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How they prevent people from urinating in public in the Czech Republic

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Al Capone's surprise guest

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Some birds make nests like this. Don't show this to the snakes!

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Japans first private rocket explodes seconds after lift off

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Albert Einstein and Marie Curie talking by a lake circa 1929.

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Putin likes to arrive late to meetings with world leaders as a power move, making them wait for hours to show he's in charge. Interestingly, Biden insisted on arriving later than Putin when they met in Geneva. Putin arrived before Biden.

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Roselle the best guide dog.

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Josef Mencik, the last knight. He lived in Czechoslovakia until 1945 like a real knight, in a castle, without electricity or cars. He even attacked german tanks on his horse in full armor during WWII.

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This is what the surface of an asteroid looks like. The Japanese Hayabusa 2 space craft managed to land on the surface of the Ryugu asteroid in July 2019 and transmit a photo to Earth.

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There is a monument to honor the almost 1 million (often forgotten) allied horses who died during the first world war. Of one million drafted horses, only 62k returned in 1918.

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Ukraine Handed Russia All Their Nuclear Weapons In 1996 In Exchange For A Guarantee They’d Never Be Invaded

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Today it was announced that Kane Tanaka passed away on April 19th , 2022 at the age of 119 years and 107 days. She was the oldest living person until her death, the oldest Japanese person ever and the second oldest person of all time.

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The beauty of Andalusian horses.

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Found a 5 leaf clover next to a couple of 4 leaf clovers on a walk today, these are 1 in a million

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My mosquito bite turned into the shape of a key.

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Map showing all the sunken Japanese ships of WW2.

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2x4 Grandfather and Grandson

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