1926 photo of Dr. Eduard Bloch, a Jewish Austrian physician who was the Hitler family's personal doctor. He treated Adolf Hitler's mother for breast cancer, reducing or sometimes eliminating her medical bills. Hitler later declared him an Honorary Aryan & allowed him to escape to the US

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Mario Puzo, the author of the Godfather books who’d also adapted them to film, had no idea what he was doing as he’d never written a screenplay before. After winning two Oscars, he decided to buy a book on screenwriting to learn how. In the first chapter, it said “Study Godfather I”

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Apes don't ask questions. While apes can learn sign language and communicate using it, they have never attempted to learn new knowledge by asking humans or other apes. They don't seem to realize that other entities can know things they don't. It's a concept that separates mankind from apes.

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In 1783, a boy was born with two heads. The second head was upside down, with the neck pointed straight up. Shockingly, the second head was fully functional. The boy claimed he could hear the other brain telling him things.

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Michael Jackson in 1978, before the plastic surgery, Pepsi incident and vitiligo.

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The evolution of Picasso’s style

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In 1998 Sony had the chance to buy the rights to almost every Marvel character for 25 million. They opted to only buy the rights to Spider-Man for just 7 million, stating, Nobody gives a shit about the other Marvel characters.

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The crew of 'Return of the Jedi' mocked the character design of Admiral Ackbar, deeming it too ugly. Director Richard Marquand refused to alter it, saying, I think it's good to tell kids that good people aren't necessarily good looking people and that bad people aren't necessarily ugly people.

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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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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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The “snow” in the Wizard of Oz movie was 100% pure asbestos

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1900 Brothel Candles. Popular in European brothels between 1880 and 1905. Used as a timer, once the wax is consumed, the session ends

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Terry Crews said the reason Fox didn't promote Idiocracy was because Mike Judge had companies pay for product placement and then he made them look bad (Starbucks gave out hand-jobs). The film tanked in limited release but made over 20 times its gross domestic box office revenue in DVD rentals.

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Traditional Rawandan Hairstyle (1923)

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There is a very rare condition called Anton syndrome, in which a person becomes blind however they are unaware of it and will deny it, as their brain generates (false) visual images so they continue to believe that they can see

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The effects of a Daisy Cutter Bomb, the bomb was designed to clear an area for a helicopter to land

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The letter that Gandhi sent to Adolf Hitler in 1939.

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Pablo Picasso carried a revolver loaded with blanks which he used to shoot at people who asked about the meaning behind his paintings (1958)

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A whole baby woolly mammoth was found frozen in the permafrost of north-western Canada, the first such discovery in N. America. The mummified ice age mammoth is thought to be more than 30,000 years old.

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After being scolded by a woman who felt that his shoes were too expensive for kids, Shaq forwent a $40 million deal with Reebok & signed one with Walmart. He then brought in designers from Reebok so that his Walmart shoes would look costlier than the $20 price. Over 400 million pairs were sold.

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Comparison of the tip of a hypodermic needle, viper's fang, spider's fang and the stinger of a scorpion

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Seagull attempts to free its friend from the claws of an eagle in epic mid-air battle

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Shipping pallets made of compressed cocaine seized by authorities in Spain

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In ancient Rome, commoners would evacuate entire cities in acts of revolt called Secessions of the Plebeians, leaving the elite in the cities to fend for themselves

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Genghis Khan would marry off a daughter to the king of an allied nation. Then he would assign his new son in law to military duty in the Mongol wars, while his daughter took over the rule. Most sons in law died in combat, giving his daughters complete control of these nations

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🔥 Extremely Rare Light Pillars in Russia, dazzling optical phenomenon caused when light is refracted by ice crystals. These pillars tend to take on the color of the surrounding light source.

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This is 'Roofman', a robber and fugitive who gave stolen toys to kids. He had a secret lair at a Toys R Us. During the night, he rode bikes, raced remote-control cars on the roof, ate baby food, and changed employees' work schedules. He told his girlfriend and others he had a secret government job.

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Sweetheart Grips during WWII. Soldiers were known to take precious family photos and put them under clear grips on their pistols.

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In ‘86 the United Way set a world record by releasing 1.5 million balloons. Meant as a fundraising stunt, they drifted back over the city and landed in the surrounding area, causing problems for traffic, the airport, and interfering with a Coast Guard search for two boaters who were later found dead

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A baboon named Jack officially worked for South African railways (1881-1890) as a signalman and was paid twenty cents a day, and half a bottle of beer each week. Jack never made a single mistake in his entire Railway career.

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The pathways at Ohio State University were paved based on the routes students took before there were paved paths

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Survived execution

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The Michelin Man is white is because rubber tires are naturally white. It wasn't until 1912 that companies started mixing carbon chemicals with the rubber to make black tires. This process is not an aesthetic change, but a structural one, making the tires stronger and durable.

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Soldier survives after 15,000 ft fall as parachute fails to open correctly in US

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The tallest human in recorded history was Robert Wadlow. Here he is with his parents and siblings in 1935.

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The doors of the C-17 Corrosion Control Hanger at Hickam Air Force Base were made to be fitted around the large aft of a Globemaster III

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When the Nazis burned Sigmund Freud's books he said, What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now, they are content with burning my books.

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Farmers in USA are hacking their John Deere tractors with Ukrainian firmware, which seems to be the only way to actually *own* the machines and their software, rather than rent them for lifetime from John Deere

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McRib patty before being cooked

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After former Japanese Prime Minister Tojo's arrest for war crimes in World War II, he was given a new set of dentures with the phrase Remember Pearl Harbor drilled in Morse Code

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There's a truck on the left side of this photo (not photoshopped)

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During the 1980s sting operation known as Abscam, the FBI formed a fake company and attempted to bribe members of congress. Nearly 25% of those tested accepted the bribe and were convicted.

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Samuel L. Jackson heard someone repeating his Ezekiel 25:17 speech to him. He turned to discover it was Marlon Brando, who gave him his number. When Jackson called, it was a Chinese restaurant. But when he asked for Brando, he picked up. It was Brando's way of screening calls.

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Glass Beach. Fort Bragg, CA. Formerly a dumping ground by the locals, this glossy beach has been formed by the tiny pieces of degraded glasses. The waves have washed away the broken pieces, creating miniature multi-colored trinkets. It's absolutely safe to swim here but not ethical and legal to pick

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Burt Ward (Robin from the 60s Batman TV show) claimed that his penis was so big that ABC prescribed him penis-shrinking pills

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These are the first detailed drawings of the moon by Galileo Galilei after he observed them through his homemade telescope in 1609.

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🔥 Butterfly eggs of the species Nymphalis antiopa

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Kim Il-sung, the founder of North Korea, had a baseball-sized growth on his neck. Official photos of the “Eternal President” were therefore taken from a leftward angle to hide the growth. In the picture: Kim Il-sung in a meeting with the Hungarian communist leader Janos Kadar in 1964.

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“And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee...”

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🔥 Frozen bamboo in Kyoto 🔥

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In the 1950s, donut shops were some of the first food businesses commonly open late at night. They became hot spots for police working the night shift since it gave them a place to grab a snack, fill out paper work, or even just take a break. This is why donuts became associated with cops.

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🔥 150 foot iceberg passes through Iceberg Alley near Ferryland, Newfoundland, Canada🔥

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A wet spiderweb hit with camera flash

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The Davy Crockett nuclear rifle, the world’s smallest nuke launcher

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Storm forming over Lubbock, Texas

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Black Sand Dunes on Mars, most sand on Earth is made from the mineral quartz, which is white and bright. On Mars, most sand is composed of dark basalt, a volcanic rock.

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Every time a plane landed on the wrong carrier, it was tradition to graffiti it before sending it back.

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🔥 Naked-eye Sprite Storm over Kansas, Sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky

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In 1825 painter Samuel Morse received a letter which read that his wife was sick. The day after that a new one said that she was dead. When 2 days later he went to his wife, he discovered that she was already buried. Pissed off for the slowness of communications, he invented the Morse code.

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Photoshoot of car crash survivors for a New Zealand road safety campaign to demonstrate how seat belts saved their lives

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Marijuana garden hidden inside cornfield

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DMX wearing anti-Paparazzi scarf that ruins photos

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Pat Smear's guitar after practice with the Foo Fighters

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Mahershala Ali as Blade by me (IG @darkmatterincorp)

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When pimps get arrested, their cash can legally be confiscated but not their jewelry. This is why pimps wear lots of jewelry so that they can re-pawn it for bail money

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🔥 Meet Zoe the Golden Zebra, one of the rarest zebras in the world

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Anti-Paparazzi scarf that ruins photos by affecting flash photograph

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🔥 Snapdragon seed pods that look like skulls 🔥

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Tigers have white spots on the backs of their ears that function as false eyes to animals trying to sneak up on them

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Royal Navy stoker nicknamed “Popeye” photographed aboard the HMS Rodney, September 1940, colorized

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CBS used to add bird songs to their golf broadcasts to get rid of awkward silences until they got caught by someone watching at home who knew the bird songs belonged to birds that didn’t live in the region in which the golf tournament was being played

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Saudi Arabia accidentally printed thousands of textbooks containing this image of Yoda sitting next to King Faisal while he signed the 1945 UN charter

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🔥 Different color sands of the Sahara Desert🔥

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What happens to aluminum when a 1/2 oz piece of plastic hits it at 15,000 mph in space

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Meet Gimo

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Iceberg that’s flipped upside down

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To protect the truth, a woman recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of TV news between 1977 and 2012. Her archives grew to about 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes stacked in her home and apartments she rented to store them. Upon her death, the Internet Archive agreed to digitize the volumes.

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⚡A photoshoot of car crash survivors for a New Zealand road safety campaign to demonstrate how seat belts saved their lives.⚡

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This is the best-preserved dinosaur specimen ever unearthed. This mummified nodosaur’s bones remain covered by intact skin and armor — 110 million years after the creature’s death.

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Mike Judge moved to Texas and a storm blew off a part of his fence. After his new neighbors fixed it for him, no questions asked, it became the basis for King Of The Hill - about neighbors who... ultimately, do the right thing and do right by people and are basically good people.

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When Michael Jackson granted Weird Al Yankovic permission to do Fat (a parody of Bad), Jackson allowed him to use the same set built for his own Badder video from the Moonwalker film. Yankovic said that Jackson's support helped to gain approval from other artists he wanted to parody.

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Valonia ventricosa, the largest single cell organism in the world. That's right. What you're looking at here is a single cell.

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150 foot iceberg in Canada

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The Great Pyramid with a perfect shadow

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While filming 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' (2017), Michael Keaton would whisper 'I'm Batman' to Tom Holland during fight scenes. We have a fight in the movie and I punch him. He turns around and says [in a deep voice], ‘I’m Batman.’ He kept doing Batman quotes on set” Holland said.

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The Creation of Peter, art by me

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Old meets new in China

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🔥 A bat and a butterfly sharing a piece of fruit

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39 year-old New Orleans Saints quarterback Ken Stabler in 1984

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Barbie is everything.

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⚡DMX wearing anti-Paparazzi scarf that ruins photos by affecting flash photography⚡

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The original design of Mount Rushmore before funding ran out in 1941

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Skunk Works chief refuses to comment on video that shows bizarre aircraft on the back of a flatbed truck near the facility

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🔥 Meet Lucky, the ultra-rare Cotton Candy Lobster who is 1 in 100 million 🔥

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“Military Grade” is just a marketing ploy. In the actual military, “military grade” means “meeting the bare-minimum requirements of durability, while also costing the least.”

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Lake Mead 1983 vs 2021

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The 1966 North Dakota blizzard

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⚡Marijuana garden hidden in the middle of a cornfield⚡

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Alligators survive in frozen waters by sticking their nose above the ice and entering a state of brumation

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Daniel Radcliffe Wolverine, by me

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This Cardinal is a genetic anomaly called a Bilateral Gynandromorph. It is half male half female, with a functioning ovary on its left side and a functioning single testis on its right.

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⚡️In Germany you can play pong with the person on the other side of traffic lights⚡️

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Do you remember going to raves? (this is a rug under a coffee table)

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A Man Feeding Swans in the Snow (Credit: Marcin Ryczek)

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⚡Valonia ventricosa, also known as bubble algae or sailor's eyeballs is a species of alga found in oceans throughout the world in tropical regions. It is the largest single cell organism. That's right. What you're looking at here is a single cell. ⚡

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🔥 Monkey family portrait (Japanese Macaque)

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Naked-eye Sprite Storm over Kansas

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⚡Jenny Joseph (28) modeling for the Columbia Pictures logo (1992). This is the only pic she ever modeled for. ⚡

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The oldest individual tree in the world — nicknamed “Methuselah” after the longest-lived person in the Bible — has been alive for more than 4,800 years old (4,854 years as of 2022)

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Floor designed to stop running in the hallways

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🔥 Rare Zebra Foal with Polka Dots 🔥

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⚡500 circulated $1 bills next to 500 un-circulated $1 bills⚡

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⚡This is what happens to aluminum when a 1/2 oz piece of plastic hits it at 15,000 mph in space⚡

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The Swiss Mini Gun holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest functioning revolver in the world. It measures 5.5 cm long, 3.5 cm tall and 1 cm wide, weighing only 19.8g. While its reduced size may be unusual, this tiny firearm has all the same features as a normal-sized double-action revolver.

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Naked-eye Sprite Storm over Kansas, Sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky

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⚡A copy of the Mona Lisa painted alongside Da Vinci by his apprentice. Unlike the original, the paint was preserved, showing what the iconic painting would have looked like in 1517 ⚡

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A U.S. half dollar that’s been cut out

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Black Sand Dunes on Mars taken by NASA’s Curiosity Rover, most sand on Earth is made from the mineral quartz, which is white and bright. On Mars, most sand is composed of dark basalt, a volcanic rock.

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How the Mona Lisa would have looked in 1517

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Bloodlusted Grey Wolf with terrifying eyes feasts on deer carcass

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Asperitas (formerly referred to as Undulatus Asperitas) is a distinctive, but relatively rare cloud formation that takes the appearance of rippling waves. These wave-like structures form on the underside of the cloud to makes it look like a rough sea surface when viewed from below

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A beardless Abraham Lincoln. The photo was taken in Beardstown, Illinois in 1858.

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What do you think? (OC)

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⚡Mount St. Helens before and after its 1980 eruption⚡

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High on the edge (standing next to a puddle)

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Meet Zoe the Golden Zebra, one of the rarest zebras in the world

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This is the best-preserved dinosaur specimen ever unearthed. This mummified nodosaur’s bones remain covered by intact skin and armor — 110 million years after the creature’s death.

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The Closest Picture We’ve Ever Taken of the Sun, That bright dot you see is actually Mercury. NASA's Parker Solar Probe soared within 15 million miles of the star and has come closer to the sun than any human spacecraft before it.

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⚡Puddle at sunset looks like the earth from space ⚡

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⚡Pat Smear's guitar after practice with the Foo Fighters ⚡

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Meet Zoe the Golden Zebra, one of the rarest zebras in the world

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Extremely Rare Light Pillars in Russia, dazzling optical phenomenon caused when light is refracted by ice crystals. These pillars tend to take on the color of the surrounding light source.

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⚡Shipping pallets made of compressed cocaine seized by authorities in Spain⚡

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⚡️This Polish statue looks like Darth Vader after a snowy day⚡️

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⚡Comparison of the tip of a hypodermic needle, viper's fang, spider's fang and the stinger of a scorpion⚡

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🔥 Qizai, the world's only Brown Panda 🔥

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🔥 This monstrous San Pedro cactus 🔥

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Vials of heroin, fentanyl and carfentanil side by side, each containing a lethal dose of the drug

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Billy Dee Two-Face (art by me)

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⚡️ Shipping pallets made of compressed cocaine seized by authorities in Spain⚡️

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⚡The world's biggest horse, Brooklyn Brookie Supreme ⚡

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