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How weather in Slovenia changed in one day.

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Good for him for disobeying.

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Heat maps showing the distribution of the Mutual Pleasure Index for both touch and look modalities

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This is Dr. Donald Cline - A fertility doctor who illegally fathered 94 children - He discarded donated sperm & replaced it with his own - He served a one-year suspended sentence for his atrocities

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Cute kindness between nations. Turkey just sent Mexico a puppy. Because when Mexico sent its K9 search and rescue team during the earthquake, one of their dogs passed away. Turkey sent them a new puppy, as a way to honor the previous dog's legacy.

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The difference between how different colored T-shirts absorb heat.

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This is David Hampson AKA The Silent Man - A UK citizen who is repeatedly arrested for standing on a certain road to block traffic. He never speaks a word, not even to the court or his lawyer. Every time he is released he repeats the same crime and remains silent

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Black parents give birth to white baby

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A telephone box in the French Alps

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Motion-activated screen changer

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Meet Whang-od Oggay a 103 year old tattoo artist from the Philippines. She is the only remaining traditional Kalinga tattooist. You don’t take a tattoo choice to this woman. She first decides if you’re worthy and then she tattoos what she wants.

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Vince Coleman,a train dispatcher for Canada Railways, sacrificed his life to warn an incoming train of an imminent explosion.His telegraph said, ‘Hold up the train.Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for train 6 & will explode.Guess this will be my last message. Goodbye boys.’ He saved 300 lives.

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Since you guys liked my other post, here is a pretty typical prison contraband drop.

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Last sunset 9/10/2001 - Twin Towers

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Graves of 63 wives of Afzal Khan, general in Bijapur, India, 1659 CE. A astrologer predicted that he would not survive his next battle so he had all of them killed fearing that his wives would remarry

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I made a beaded sneklace

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A Human Brain On The Left, A Dolphin Brain On The Right

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This is how the world's tallest woman (7'0.7'') took her first flight. Turkish airlines replaced 6 seats from its economy section with a special stretcher for her to travel on the 13-hour flight to the United States.

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United States Map from 1800

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Russians against Putin are using a “new Russian flag”, pushing to remove the “blood” from the Russian flag. This is what a real threat to Putin looks like.

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The 1966 North Dakota blizzard

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Salvador Alvarenga, a 36-year-old fisherman, drifted more than 10,000 Km from Mexico was found washed up on the shore spending 438 at sea.

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This is what Tokyo, the largest city on Earth, looks like from a plane.

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Scientist holding a basketball covered with Vantablack, the world's blackest substance

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Al Capone is the reason we have expiration dates on milk bottles: After his niece became extremely ill from bad milk, the powerful Chicago gangster lobbied aggressively for expiration dates to be put on milk for the safety of children and pregnant women

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Little Gorilla has a rough and tumble with dad, his baby brother assumes he's in trouble and doesn't hesitate to rush to his aid

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Big Bird is an 8-foot 2-inch anthropomorphic canary that was operated by Carroll Spinney from 1969 to 2018. As Spinney got older, Big Bird appeared less , and when he did, his on-screen time got shorter and shorter because it was difficult for him to hold up his arms for long periods.

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Katie Stubblefield lost her face when she was 18 years old. When surgeons gave her a new one three years later in 2017, she became the 40th known face transplant in the world.

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The Homosexual anti-Nazi fighter

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Don't give up on your dreams...

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In Finland traffic fines are calculated on the basis of the offender's income

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Elizabeth Eckford walks to Little Rock Central High School as Hazel Bryan stands behind her screaming on the first day of racial integration on September 4, 1957

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Portugal's ingenious way of handling drug addiction

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Exit of Chinese Subway In The Middle of Nowhere.

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Wojtek the Bear, adopted by the 22nd Transport Company's Artillery Division in the Polish II Corps in 1942, after an Iranian boy traded the bear for food. He served alongside his human comrades during the Italian Campaign

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Aerial view of a tire scrap yard

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This Bleutech Park project in Las Vegas planned to erect 33 floors casino with rooftop fountain.

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Ben Franklin Saving Benjamin’s

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White-tailed deer mothers hide their babies every day while they forage for food. The baby will hold in its poop and pee while mom is gone. When mom returns, it relieves itself into moms mouth, and she consumes it all, to prevent the baby from producing scent.

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The Retractable Gym Floor Over a Pool in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is real. Beverly Hills High School.

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Chain Connector

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Solar-powered lasers are used in the Saudi desert to help guide anyone lost to water supplies - They act as real life waypoints

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Square donuts have 27% more donut per donut, and take up roughly the same space as a round one

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Never Forget: The Kentucky Meat Shower happened 148 years ago today.

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Today in New Zeland. No virus, no masks, no lockdowns. PM Jacinta Arden at a party on a national holiday

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Just a few of the ships mothballed after World War II in San Diego

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Workers building a mountain road in China

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In 2016, Victor Sheppard hit 1 million miles on his Toyota Tundra. It took 9 years, and once Toyota found out, they flew in multiple chief engineers to inspect the truck rolled out a red carpet, and hired a band to celebrate the moment. They bought the truck back and gave him a new one for free.

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Mount rushmore.

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Joy Andrew. From York, England.

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List of animals Theodore Roosevelt and his son killed on a safari in Africa

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That sounds very cool

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Common Sense at it's best

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This is what a Desert Oasis looks like, I've always heard of them but never seen a picture.

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AI facial reconstruction of King Henry the 8th of England.

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My lemon tree grew one huge mutant leaf to better absorb TV radiation.

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A Bar in New York City the Night Prohibition Ended, 1933

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The lucky iron fish: Used by people with low blood iron, you need only cook with it to increase your iron intake.

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A potato infected with blight, the disease that set off The Great Famine in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. During 1847, the single worst year of the famine, roughly 1 million people died and more than 1 million fled the country, causing the country's population to fall by 20–25%

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Throughout the USS Triton's secret mission to circumnavigate the world submerged, the only unauthorized individual to spot the submarine during those sixty days was a Filipino man on his canoe, who noticed its periscope. April 1, 1960.

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Born four years after his parents' deaths.

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Fruit extinct 2000 years ago is resurrected by scientists The Judean date palm, a tree mentioned in the Bible and the Koran, has completely disappeared from the world thousands of years ago, but some seeds recovered by archaeologists have finally been brought back to life.

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This is a picture of Abu Tahsin al-Salhi, an Iraqi veteran sniper who is credited with killing over 384 ISIS members during the Iraqi Civil War, receiving the nickname “Hawk Eye.” The leader of ISIS was so afraid of him, he put a bounty of $250,000 on the sniper.

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Nathan Nearest Green

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First drive from north to South Pole has been done

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Gas Station Skimmer. Always yank it before you put it in

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Rocketship Lamp

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These two took care of elderly residents after they were abandoned in a care home after it closed down. Respect.

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The Cosquer cave is a Palaeolithic decorated cave, located in France, that contains numerous cave drawings dating back as far as 27,000 years BP. The cave has more than 200 parietal figures and is also the only decorated cave whose entrance opens under the sea.

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This is what happens to aluminum when hit by a 1/2 oz (14g) piece of plastic going 15,000 mph (24,000 km/h) in space

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Tony Hawk and his father Frank Hawk, 1987

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Car colors by year

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In 2010, the US Air Force bought 1,760 PS3s for $400 each to build a supercomputer nicknamed the Condor Cluster, to process high-def satellite imagery. It was the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world at the time (500 TFLOPS) and cost 10% of the price of a conventional supercomputer.

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This ghostly sculpture at the Castle of Vezio, Italy

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'I'm Not Dying For Putin!' 800 people arrested as anti-war demonstrations explode in Moscow and St Petersburg

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Kazakhstan is photoshopping their leader’s photos without even trying to be subtle

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Franz Reichelt in 1912, shortly before testing his homemade flying suit by jumping off the Eiffel Tower. The jump wasn't entirely successful

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Trees on a Rope

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Muslims praying at the Holy Mosque in Mecca.

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Michael Tolotos lived for 82 years without ever knowing what a woman looks like. Link in comments

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Dashrath Manjhi carved a road through a mountain over 22yrs to shorten the distance from his village to the nearest hospital from 70km to 1km

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Admiral Zheng He's ship (Larger one) compared to the ship of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus

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AK-47 muzzle blast deflecting rain

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Before and after of a man who walked across China for a year.

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Researchers in Siberia found a perfectly-preserved 42,000-year-old baby horse buried under the permafrost. It was in such good condition that its blood was still in a liquid state, allowing scientists to extract it.

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The extinct turnspit dog was a small cooking canine bred to run in a wheel for open-fire roasting

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Imagine a person who doesn't know what apes are, and then they see this skeleton

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After a local school district closed, they parked their WiFi equipped school buses in areas where students lack internet, acting as free hotspots

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Albert Einstein, his secretary and daughter became US citizens to avoid returning to Nazi Germany in 1940.

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In Dubai, UAE they have a weather modification program to create more rainfall called “cloud seeding”

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Good guy Robert

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Upvote of the Mayan ruins of Uxmal

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Square waves are highly dangerous non parallel wave systems. A large percentage of ship accidents have been found to occur in this sea state. Vessels fare better against large waves when sailing directly perpendicular to oncoming surf, which is impossible with square waves.

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