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Only 8 games ever have been scored a perfect 10 by IGN and a perfect 40 by Famitsu

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Lara Croft progression - 1996 to 2018

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Countries whose local names are extremely different from the names they're referred to in English

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At a zoo in Bakhchisaray, Crimea - a gibbon walks through a cluster of model vehicles

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Mariusz Pudzianowski, 5-times World's Strongest Man, describes his diet

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Floyd Mayweather Jr surrounded by his bodyguards

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Contestants of a beautiful legs pageant in the 1930s wearing scary bags on their heads, so that only their bodies will be judged

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Polar histograms of street networks in 100 major cities across all continents, ranked from most orderly to most disorderly (each histogram bar’s direction represents the compass bearings of the streets, and its length represents the relative frequency of streets with those bearings)

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Some of the proposals for the flag of South Africa from the 1910s-1920s. Which is your favourite?

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A fire fighter wearing a fire-repellent sprinkler helmet, Chicago 1922

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In 1949, French director Willy Rozier challenged a film critic to a duel over comments he had made about Rozier's film. Rozier won the duel (fought with rapiers, to first blood) in front of journalists and photographers. The film would go on to become a hit

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In 1896, a bubоnіc plаgue epіdеmic struck Bombay, and the government asked Waldemar Haffkine, developer of the first chоlera vаccіne, to help. After 3 months of persistent work (one assistant had a nervous breakdown and two others quit), a vаccіne was ready, with Haffkine tеsting it on himself first

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Visualising the average flag of the world and of continents - mean and mode, weighted by population and area (not OC)

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Countries and territories where English, French, or Spanish are official or co-official languages

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In France, civil registrars can refuse to register babies' names if they consider the name to be offensive, inappropriate, unfair to the newborn, or otherwise unsuitable. These are the 20 most commonly refused names in 2021

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Comparing apples and oranges

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Mariusz Pudzianowski, 5-times World's Strongest Man, describes his diet

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People gathered around molten lava at the base of the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland, September 2021

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The organisers of the IIHF World Championship forced Czech fans to take down a Ukrainian flag they displayed... so they found a loophole

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Comparing all the world's military personnel

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The best of the MCU, as voted by Redditors

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Flags of Armenia. Which is your favourite?

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Fine for the MCG streaker is an extremely specific $9,913.20

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Countries where at least one incumbent head of state/head of government has been assassinated

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Flag emojis in order of popularity, as per official Unicode statistics

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Flags of the United States

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Inside Out (2015)

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Morena Baccarin

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Glamorgan's Sam Northeast has scored 410* vs Leicestershire, the highest first-class score since 1994, and the 9th-highest of all time. His 6th-wicket partnership with Chris Cooke (191*) amassed 461 runs off 71.3 overs, with 232 runs scored off this morning's 31-over first session

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Nuristanis, natives of northeastern Afghanistan, and the Kalasha, natives of a neighbouring district in northwestern Pakistan. Uniquely among South Asians, they have a prevalence of light skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes, with some claiming that they are descendants of Alexander the Great's soldiers

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Price of Starfield (for PC) around the world - at current conversion rates, the price in Mexico is almost three times as high as the price in Turkiye

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Long-distance runner Abdul Baser Wasiqi was the only athlete to represent Afghanistan at the 1996 Olympics. He injured his hamstring before the marathon, but despite his injury he completed the race, limping the whole way, and finished nearly an hour and a half behind the second-slowest competitor

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In Sierra Leone, before getting a driver's license, you have to buy a board game called The Drivers' Way and play it at least once. The game involves rolling stoplight-themed dice and moving models of classic cars around a board, together with answering questions about the country’s road laws

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Flag of Navoloki, Ivanovo Oblast, Russia

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The world's ongoing conflicts, as of October 2021

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Number of recorded funerals with at least one million people participating in the procession

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Flag of the Bruneian Empire (1368-1906), the only all-yellow national flag

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The 33 islands that make up the country of Kiribati (the dark blue dots) stretch more than 3200 km from east to west - wider than Australia, and almost as wide as the contiguous US states

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The 1959 Volkswagen came with an optional coffee machine

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Series of $5 coins from the Pacific nation of Kiribati

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14-sided wooden die from 7th-10th century Korea, with instructions for a drinking game. Instructions include drinking three cups of liquor at once, staying still when one's face is tickled, dancing alone with no music, having one's nose struck by many companions

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Over 1600 Redditors voted on the very best of the MCU - here are the final results!

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Escape boots, issued to British military pilots from 1943-45. If they had to bail out over enemy territory, a concealed knife in one boot cоuld bе used to cut away the upper section, and convert them into ordinary shoes, which would help the airman pass himself off as a civilian

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Over 61,000 first-class matches have been played in cricket history, but only once ever has a player scored 2 centuries and taken two 5-fers in a match: George Hirst for Yorkshire vs Somerset in 1906 (111 and 117*, 6/70 and 5/45)

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Karen Keeler, 1955 Miss Atomic Energy, touching her winnings, which included a truckload of uranium ore (11.2 tonnes, worth $523.54 at the time). The pageant was hosted by Grand Junction, Colorado, USA, then the centre of the country's uranium mining and production

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Nature Timespiral: a graphical summary of notable events from the Big Bang to the present day.

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Old and current coats of arms of Nyitra (Kingdom of Hungary)/Nitra (Slovakia) - full-length blazon in the comments

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Famous classical composers and their treble clefs

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How the NFL might look if it has exactly one team in each of the world's time zones

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In the 1950s,babycots were attached to the overhead luggage locker and used to hold babies during airplane flights

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The North pole is moving to Russia

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The world's 25 largest country subdivisions

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Greater coat of arms of Imperial Brazil, 1822-1831, under Emperor Pedro I (Dom Pedro de Alcantara Francisco Antonio Joao Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim Jose Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim, Duque de Braganca)

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All of the spheres have exactly the same base colour

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Drinks for the England side during the 5th and final Test at The Oval in August 1926. No water carrier in a high-vis jacket, no blazered 12th man, but a waiter in full black tie

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Gyanendra Shah, the last king of Nepal, wearing the Nepalese Royal Crown

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Coat of arms of Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti (son of Ferdinand II, King of the Two Sicilies) - very NSFW, and a (classic) violation of the rule of tincture

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Coat of arms of Joachim-Napoleon (Gioacchino Napoleone), brother-in-law of Emperor Napoleon I, as King of Naples from 1808-1815

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Top selling car model in each country (2017)

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A woman practicing decapitation while riding a bike, 1901

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Coat of arms of British financier and banker Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1875), Sheriff of the City of London (1837), and renowned philanthropist for Jewish causes

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Countries and colonies that were under a monarch at the start of the 1910s, but not at the end of that decade

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Number of different language Wikipedias for the main page of each country/territory

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Job advertisement for the short-lived USA Pony Express (April 1860-October 1861): wanted - young... fellows not over eighteen... willing to risk death daily... orphans preferred

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In some Nazi concentration camps, local notes were issued. In the Oranienburg Camp, the prisoner who designed the notes subtly edited the top of the g in the word Konzentrationslager (concentration camp), changing it to Konzentrationslayer (concentration killer) - and the Nazis never noticed

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Worst collapse of all time - 196/0 to 214 all out. Leicestershire vs Middlesex at Lord's, 1960 County Championship

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A Kent Cricket League one-day match in 2004 featured the greatest names mismatch in cricket history. In the second innings, John Smith opened the batting, and was promptly dismissed by Amunugama Rajapakse Rajakaruna Abeykoon Panditha Wasalamudiyanse Ralahamilage Ranjith Krishantha Bandara Amunugama

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Mission: Impossible (1996)/Suicide Squad (2016)

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Exactly 70 years ago, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip travelled to the British colony of Kenya, on the start of a planned 6-month tour of the Commonwealth. After a few days, on the 6th of February, King George VI passed away in his sleep, and Princess Elizabeth woke up as Queen Elizabeth II

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The three life stages of the bicolour parrotfish (Cetoscarus bicolor), found only in the Red Sea. It starts off with white and orange skin as a juvenile, then becomes an adult female with brown and cream skin, and then changes into a male (sequential hermaphroditism) with green and pink skin

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Coat of arms of the Black Loyalist Heritage Society, Nova Scotia, Canada

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When Scottish explorers went on an expedition to Antarctica in 1902, they brought along a piper, who was tasked with maintaining morale. The crew photographed him playing the bagpipes in full Highland dress next to a penguin (which was tethered to a large pot packed with snow)

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Japanese inventions for rainy days: the tie umbrella, the shoe umbrella, and the drape umbrella

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What 95,647 flight routes look like on a map

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This is believed to be the the first photograph of cricket at Lord's, taken in 1859. The houses are now hidden by the Grandstand. The coloured clothing is usual for the time

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The Ginzburg V map projection (also referred to as TsNIIGAiK Modified Polyconic), evaluated in 2001 as the projection with the least distortion

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With 3 overs remaining in the match (the first 3 innings were declared - only 14 wickets falling), Sussex were 187/1, chasing 205. Pat Pocock then bowled W.W2.W, 11 runs were scored in the penultimate over, and Pocock bowled the final over WWW1WW (the last was run-out). Sussex finished with 202/9

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US-China basketball team at the 1952 Inter-Camp Prisoner-of-War Olympics, held at Pyuktong P.O.W. Camp, North Korea

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The Tigerfibel, the manual for the 1942 Panzer VI Tiger tank, was written mostly in rhymes and featured comic-style illustrations. The drawings personified the tank as a young lady named Elvira Tiger, who is mainly shown fully or partially nude

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In 2009-10, ESPNcricinfo brought together juries of former players, selectors, and historians to create all-time Test teams: an overall World XI, and XIs for Aus, Eng, Ind, NZ, Pak, SA, SL, and WI. More than a decade later, which players, in your opinion, should be added to/removed from these XIs?

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Endonyms of the world - how countries call themselves and their capitals in their native languages (high resolution)

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Flags of the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak during the 1980s

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Countries by mean Body Mass Index (weight in kilograms/square of height in metres), as per the World Health Organisation, 2015

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The highest-ranked men's team for every country, out of 6 major international team sports (baseball, basketball, cricket, football, ice hockey, and rugby union)

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Decade in which each country's current head of *state* came into power

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The white ensign of England, 1702-1707

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A portrait of George Parr (by William Bromley IIIdating) from around 1850. Parr was a stalwart of Nottinghamshire and the All England XI, and he captained a side to the USA in 1859, the first major overseas tour

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Greek runner Spyridon Louis, winner of the marathon at the first modern Olympic Games, held in Athens in 1896. He was a water carrier in his youth, and after the Olympics he worked as a farmer and as a police officer

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Gaming penetration in 43 countries around the world, 2021 - share of internet users who play video games on any device

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Q (1982)/Othon, or: Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times, or, Perhaps One Day Rome Will Allow Herself to Choose in Her Turn (1970)

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The Pilgrim's Progress

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Kim Jong-un: Don't sanction us for our nuclear program - it's just part of the filming of Oppenheimer (2023)

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Take a seat: Scarlett Johansson vs Alexandra Daddario

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Portable hair dryers from the 1960s and 1970s

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The All England XI in 1847. This was the first of several all-star sides which toured the country playing for money, the arrival of the railway making such travel between towns a realistic proposition. The start of Tests and the County Championship ended such XIs

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Marvel Cinematic Universe's share of domestic (US/Canada) box office, by year

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Statue of Charles La Trobe, the first governor of the British Colony of Victoria, in the garden of La Trobe University in Melbourne. The sculptor explained that the statue is upside-down to challenge traditional commemoration, and also that as La Trobe was English, it's the right way up in England

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[Worldwide] The Marvel Cinematic Universe now averages over $800 million (over 18 movies!)

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The Northern Forum - a non-profit, international organisation composed of fourteen sub-national or regional governments from five northern countries

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Lonely heart advertisement from the Dundee Courier, 1 November 1924

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Ashton Agar 6/30 - 5th 6-for in T20 internationals, 1st in an away match, 1st for a non-Asian, 1st outside Asia

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[Other] Avengers: Endgame is already the movie with the most all-time records (it already holds 25 records to SW:TFA's 24)

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This remarkable match was played in 1958 between Derbyshire and Hampshire. The first day was almost completely rained out, with one wicket falling - but on the second day, all the remaining 39 wickets fell. Overall, only 5 bowlers were used in the entire match (2 by Hampshire and 3 by Derbyshire)

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In the 2019 South Asian Games Women's T20I tournament, the Maldives faced Nepal, and were all out after scoring a single run off the bat

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High boots and high heels: Alexandra Daddario vs Scarlett Johansson vs Victoria Justice vs Taylor Swift vs Ana de Armas vs Emma Watson

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Kolejka (Queue), a Polish board game about the difficulty of acquiring goods during the country's communist era. Each player has a shopping list, and must queue outside the various shops - without knowing which shops will be receiving a delivery that day, nor the quantity or specific product

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[Not OC] The 299 countries of Marvel's Earth-616

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Population of Greater Tokyo, in terms of US cities

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Regional groups within the United Nations

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Plateau Station International Airport, located in the middle of Antarctica. In July 1968, it was the site of the world's coldest measured average temperature over a month, at -99.8°F (-73.2°C). Over winter, the crew at the station would constantly update the minimum temperature on the sign by hand

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