The Golden Gate Bridge, 50th anniversary, 1987. Estimated crowd size was over 800,000 people which caused the bridge to sag 7ft.

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How peircing is done

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The relation of Abe Lincoln with cats

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Arizona firmen putting out a Mexican fire.

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Sweden Blood Donors get notified via text message when their blood helps someone

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Last picture of FDNY Firefighter Gary Box on his way to the WTC on foot on September 11 2001 after their truck got stuck in traffic in the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. He died later that day his remains were never recovered.

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In 2020 a photo album was discovered in a Belgian thrift shop, contained therein were over 60 photographs of some of the most well-known Hollywood stars, all happily smiling having their photo taken with the same woman. More info in comments.

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Penguin eggs whites stay clear when boiled

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The first time a former president in American history is seen under arrest

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5 high school students skipped class in 1964 to go see the beatles. Ringo Starr pulled up beside them and snapped a photo of them. 50 years later they reenacted the shot with him for his new book.

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The last image of Keith Spasford, a 14 year old australian boy who wanted to explore the world, so he snuck to a plane wheel well, it opened in mid-air and the boy fell out. the photographer was just testing his new lenses and was shocked after developing those images

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Scientists have managed to revive a plant from the Pleistocene in their vials! This guy is 32,000 years old.

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Rebar straightening machine

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An anti-metric system poster from 1917 United States of America.

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The skeletal remains of the Lovers of Modena. Researchers have determined both figures are male

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Abandoned luxury housing development, Shenyang, China

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The water quality in Warsaw, the capital city of Poland, is monitored by clams. If the water gets too toxic, they close, and the triggers shut off the city’s water supply automatically

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Map of Earth if you were a fish or ocean dwelling creature

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This shows the power of a phenomenon known as a microburst which can snap full grown trees in half

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In 1960, David Latimer planted a garden inside of a bottle and sealed it shut. He opened the bottle and watered the plant in 1972 and sealed it for good. It has been a self sustaining ecosystem for 60 years.

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Tameshigiri Master demonstrates how useless a katana could be without the proper skills and experience

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3D Virtual Candle

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This was The Worlds Fattest Man circa 1900. His name was Chauncey Morlan (1869-1906). 474 lbs at the age of 17. He was a huge attraction at the Barnum and Bailey circus and drew crowds from far distances.

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The third man syndrome

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Public Hospitals in Norway

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'World's oldest woman' celebrates 123rd birthday but Guinness World Records doubt her. Source in comments.

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This bizarre creature was discovered in Arizona, after closer examination it was revealed to be a 3 year old tadpole that never developed into a frog because of a genetic hormonal imbalance.

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In 2002, an intern who stole moon rocks from NASA, spread the rocks on his bed and had sex on them, resulting in the contamination making the rocks virtually useless to the scientific community. He was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison.

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Marriage advice for young ladies from a suffragette, 1918.

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This is a Harpy Eagle, One of the largest eagles in the world!

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Volkswagen Beetle side fenders converted into motorcycles

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365 puzzles for the price of one

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Record 14’ 800 pound gator taken in Mississippi last weekend

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Horses on airplane.

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I converted a van into a home and now work remotely and travel full-time.

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Nikola Tesla’a foot X-ray taken by himself on a machine he designed (1896)

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Moose fixes broken headlight!

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The Best Selling Female Artists of All-Time

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Delhi painter gets hands back as organ donation meets surgical excellence.

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This is the oldest surviving aerial photograph, taken 43 years before the invention of the airplane, 163 years ago

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Genetics is so cool, my parents always told me I looked like my dad's mom but I never got to meet her before she passed away. On the right is my grandmother holding my dad and left is me holding my son, taken exactly 63 years apart!

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A comparison of light temperatures

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On April 6, 1893 Andy Bowen and Jack Burke fought the longest boxing match in history, lasting 110 rounds over seven hours and 19 minutes. The bout ending with a decision of no contest after both fighters became too tired and dazed to leave their chairs.

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Charity Weeden is sworn in at NASA. Look closely at the book she's swearing in on.

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Someone mailed a box full of $50 and $100 bills, totaling $180,000 to the physics department at City College of New York. An enclosed note says to use the cash to fund scholarships for needy students.

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2000 year old Roman mosaics found near the Euphrates

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4 hours of planes landing at San Diego airport in 23 seconds

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Blackest black

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User of LG washing machine spotted that it spent 11Gb of traffic (mostly upload)

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A guy decided to build his house over a hill, time later it was discovered that the hill was indeed a mayan pyramid

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The hero who helped create the video game industry as we know it

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The Netherlands has created an underwater livestream, asking people to watch and ring an online bell if they see a large number of fish, so that they can open the dam and allow fish to migrate.

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Christmas lights

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Natures way to say fuck you

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The real life Rapunzel. Alla Perkova with her 65-inch long hair that hasn't been cut in over 30 years

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Massive wind storm buried this house in tumbleweeds today.

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Boeing B-17 ''5 grand'', the 5,000th B-17 built at the Seattle factory since Pearl Harbor and was signed by every employee working at the plant. Due to the weight and drag of the signatures the pilots said it flew 7mph slower than a standard B-17.

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The United States and Canada at the same latitudes as Europe

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Dinosaur footprints on an eroded beach.

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Jackal food is a parasitic plant native to southern Africa. It doesn’t photosynthesize—instead, it attaches to the roots of other plants. Its flowers surface after heavy rainfall. The flower gives off a carrion-like stench to attract insects.

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Are You Smarter Than a Plant?

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Tagging and blood tests for bison. Just to give you an idea of how big they are, this male weighs around 3000lbs.

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Lake Mead 1983 vs 2021

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This Italian restaurant gave us an “ecofriendly” straw... it’s a pasta noodle

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Case Closed

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Fan got a 1 year ban from the stadium so decides to rent a crane to watch the game.

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High school in 1985.

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In China, the final scene of Fight Club right before Edward Norton Jr. and Helena Bonham Carter watch the explosions go off... you instead get a black screen which fades into these captions explaining how the story ended.

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How have I never heard this story?

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This Sashimi Roll

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Farmer streaming his job with a drone

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So that's where he gets his cool from...

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A Peruvian elongated skull with metal surgically implanted after returning from battle, estimated to be from about 2000 years ago. The broken bone surrounding the repair is tightly fused together indicating it was a successful surgery.

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William James Sidis was a mathematical genius. With an IQ of 250 to 300. He read the New York Times at 18 months, wrote French poetry at 5 years old, spoke 8 languages at 6 years old, and enrolled at Harvard at 11.

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Soldiers saved by bacteria.

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Joe Medicine Crow!

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Everyone hates getting wet

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Henry VIII of England, who reigned from 1509-1547, had people who were called Grooms of Stool whose job it was to wipe his ass. He had 4 such people during his reign, all of whom were knighted. He may have hated most of his wives, but he took care of his ass wipers.

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Almost 5,000 people queued for hours in the rain at a swabbing event in Worcester, to see if they matched a 5yo boy fighting a rare cancer after parents asked for help.

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No filters. Australia is red from wildfires.

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Sometimes it's good to just play it cool

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Two engineers share a hug atop a burning wind turbine in the Netherlands (2013)

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UPPERCASE lowercase

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Trophy stand for a robot combat tournament.

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Willem Dafoe’s penis was so large that after the filming of the 2009 psychological thriller “ Antichrist” the director had to cut the scene Dafoe’s actual penis and reshoot it with a body double because it was “ So large that everyone in the room was confused.”

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Little lady next to a giant dog

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Runaway slave Gordon, exposing his severely whipped back. Gordon had received a severe whipping for undisclosed reasons in the fall of 1862. Gordon escaped in March 1863 from the 3,000 acre plantation of John & Bridget Lyons, who held him and 40 other people in slavery at the time of the 1860 census

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This painting from the 1600s shows what watermelons looked like at the time

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Magic carpets: the art of Faig Ahmed's melted and pixellated rugs, where pieces sell for upwards of $15,000 (£11,870). Typically, they begin as a classic pattern that encounters an obstacle or glitch, a sort of technical meltdown.

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USSR's lead rocket scientist, Sergei Koroley, planted newspaper articles falsely suggesting approval for a Soviet space program. President Eisenhower responded by approving an American space program. This forced the Communist Party to approve the space program they previously denied.

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Back in 2010, Pigeons in South Africa were faster than the Internet.

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Constructed from old farm equipment ...

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This is the closest photo of Saturn ever taken

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Emma Schols saved All Of Her 6 Kids From Their Burning Home, Running Room To Room, Floor To Floor. Even Tho She Was Bleeding And Losing Skin, Hair Burnt Like Coal, She Kept Going. Emma Got 93% Burn Injuries, Yet Still Survived. Super Mom, Indeed!

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The future is here.

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Last photo taken of Grizzly Man Timothy Treadwell, and of his girlfriend Amie Huguenard. Timothy and Amy were victims of a fatal bear attack at their campsite in Katmai National Park and Reserve in October of 2003.

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I don’t know what this is but I call it the Stars train

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Close of of Spy Balloon, Source in comments

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Firefighters driving to a call

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Speechless.

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In honor of the 100th anniversary of Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license, American Airlines operated a flight out of Dallas with an all-Black, all-female crew - from the pilots and flight attendants to cargo team members and aviation maintenance technicians.

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The Arctic 103 years ago compared to today.

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Population density of USA

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my lastest sand castle

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This weird chemical reaction that spawns Satan

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When a 6.8 earthquake hit Olympia, Washington in 2001, a shop owner found that a sand-tracing pendulum recorded the vibrations.

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good guy Einstein

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In Finland, speeding tickets are calculated based on your income - causing some Finnish millionaires to pay fines of over $100,000. The more you earn the bigger the fine.

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My friend an i found this on a college trip

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'The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.'

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Everybody who has lived and died by National Geographic

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Mad Honey: used for medicinal, recreational purposes. Low dose causes euphoria, high dose causes hallucinations.

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Barcelona

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Despite their bulky and heavy appearance, hippos' subcutaneous fat layers are quite thin. The 2,000-kg giant is mostly made up of muscles, and 6-cm thick skin. This anatomical model by Jun Huang visualizes its muscular structure

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Soviet Superman

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Horses on a Plane

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This interesting artwork on this wall

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D-Day veterans 'sitting across' from their younger selves in the same plane which dropped them into Normandy in 1944.

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Troll-A - Over 1500 Feet Tall Being Taken Out To Sea Before It’s Legs Are Sunk Down To The Ocean Floor

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Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein watching President Nixon resign

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Jonathan Lee Riches has sued over 4,000 companies and individuals, and holds the world record for the largest amount of lawsuits filed, including suits against Bill Gates and Pope Benedict XVI. When he found out that he held the record, he sued Guinness. (More in the Comments)

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If you see these on your plants please don’t kill them. They are butterfly eggs. 🖤🦋

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This 1883 photograph shows the aftermath of the eruption of Krakatoa. The explosive force of a 200-megatonne bomb killed 36,000 people and cooled the entire Earth by an average of 0.6°C. The ensuing tsunami waves reached as high as 150 ft, rocking ships as far away as South Africa.

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1000 Elevator Buttons

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Sputnik Monroe was a 60's Memphis wrestler. As part of his villainous act, he fought against segregation and frequented black neighbourhoods. He succeeded in ending segregation in wrestling arenas and became one of the biggest draws in wrestling history

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A croc with a mutation

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I'm not sure why exactly we moved away from glass but we did.

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An 11-year old girl with Down Syndrome was bullied at at school in North Macedonia, after parents of other students complained about her being in the same class. This week, the President walked her to school himself.

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“The Bin” in Los Angeles. A facility with 1500 secure storage units that allows homeless people a secure place to store their precious belongings

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First ever Disneyland ticket

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My 2-year art improvement

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Take a look inside a makeshift koala rescue centre that's been set up in a north-eastern Adelaide primary school gym

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Found this metal detecting off the treasure coast of Florida.

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NASA has now confirmed the existence of 5,470 exoplanets in 4,069 different planetary systems.

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In 1971, Nike hired a student to create a logo. She was paid $35 for her design.

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