This Professor at 74 teaching with a Pinocchio doll at the start of the pandemic. What a legend!2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/MadeMeSmile
In 1955 ‘underwater crop circles’ were discovered off the coast of Japan. It turns out they’re made by male Pufferfish to attract a female. It’s theorised that the eggs are actually protected by the ridges and patterns, which neutralize currents and make them less susceptible to predators.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
This is what the top of the Twin Towers looked like during the 1970’s early 80’s. At the time of their completion, the Twin Towers were the tallest buildings in the world at 1,368 feet (417 m) for tower 1 and 1,362 feet (415.1 m) for tower 2.3yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Got my first job today in a very long time. Now I can finally make my kids feel proud. Always pushing!!3yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/MadeMeSmile
This Zebra foal had a traumatic past as his mother was killed by a pride of lions at Tsavo East National Park in Kenya. An orphaned baby zebra feels at ‘home’ again thanks to his keepers who wear a black-and-white striped coat and fill in as his 'mother' in shifts.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
The town of Nordlingen, Germany sits inside an ancient meteorite crater that is estimated to be 14.5 million years old. The town was built 1,100-years ago with stone buildings built unknowingly containing tiny diamonds. An estimated 72,000 tons of tiny diamonds were created in the violent impact.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
These days, The 9 Nana’s are able to take on even bigger projects, given their online success. In the last 35 years, the 9 Nanas have contributed nearly $900,000 of happiness to their local community. What wonderful Nana’s!2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
These are the Bunda Cliffs form the southern edge of the Nullarbor Plain in Southern Australia. It’s the world’s largest single piece of limestone, covering an area of 270,000 square km and extending some 1,000 km from the east to the west.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Construction worker walks past the World Trade Center’s steel skeleton, 1970.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The Australian city of Kwinana has designed a simple and cost-effective solution to deal with the discharge of waste from drainage systems. The town has put nets on the outlet of drainage pipes. The collected debris is then separated and recycled.3yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
There should be more emphasis on life skills as part of everybody’s education.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/WhitePeopleTwitter
Skull of a girl bearing a ceramic flower chaplet as a funeral ornament (300-400 B.C., from the Museum of Patras, Greece).2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
The Bikaner Camel Festival is a yearly event that takes place on the border of Pakistan and India where people race camels. Their coats are shaved and trimmed into elaborate and beautiful patterns.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
I’m single but hearing this makes me happy. We all have that someone out there.... this gives me hope!!3yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/MadeMeSmile
Air Ink is the first ink made from air pollution. This soot trap can fit over the exhaust pipes of major emitters like cars and diesel generators. Each one can collect up to 95 percent of the pollutants emitted from a tailpipe, enough carbon to produce one fluid ounce of ink in about 45 minutes.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
In 1912 Teddy Roosevelt was shot as he began a speech. His 50 page script was what saved his life. Roosevelt started by saying “I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot.”2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
This Soviet listening device that wasn’t discovered for 7 years.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
There is something VERY wrong in this world! This is disturbing!2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/WhitePeopleTwitter
Muhammad Ali at 12 years old when he first took up boxing. Still known as Cassius Clay he was introduced to boxing by policeman and boxing trainer Joe Martin in 1954.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
350 million years in one picture. Situated 80 meters from the Irish shore is an impressive sea stack known as Dun Briste or the ‘Broken Fort’. It is an astonishing formation in the sense that it allows you to see layer upon layer of multicolored rock strata.3yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/geologyporn
According to a report by the National Human Rights Commission of India, just 10% of human trafficking in India is international, while almost 90% is interstate. Nearly 40,000 children are abducted every year and 11,000 remain forever untraced.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Tallest building in the world the Burj Khalifa, literally sky scraping.3yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Sea otters often wrap themselves up in kelp so they can rest without fear of floating away. In fact, mother otters will tie up their baby pups while they forage for food.3yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
There is already a Filipino tradition of planting trees upon graduation, but this new law turns that tradition into a requirement, designed to fight climate change.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Donnie Dunagan also portrayed the young son of Baron Frankenstein in Son of Frankenstein. For his service he received a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Dunagan kept his acting career a secret while serving in the Marines.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll arrive at the 36th Academy Awards in Santa Monica, California, on April 13, 1964.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Kids lives need to come first, not the right to bear arms.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/WhitePeopleTwitter
Instead of Ice Cream trucks playing music, Taiwan has yellow garbage trucks blasting classical music that collect trash several times a week. When locals hear the music they throw their Government provided rubbish bags into the trucks.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Le Passe-Muraille (the man who walks through walls) was installed in the catacombs of Paris in 2013. Replacing a severely damaged version elsewhere in the subterranean galleries lying abandoned under Paris.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Heartbreaking and heartwarming all at the same time. Congrats your Mom would be so proud!1yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/MadeMeSmile
Boy and Girl Scouts are mostly associated with tying knots and selling cookies. This is their Soviet equivalent ‘The Young Pioneers’. More focused on defense of the Motherland, this photo, taken in the USSR in 1937, epitomizes their slogan: “Always prepared!”.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Henrietta Lacks August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951 was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line. Without permission from Henrietta (normal practice in those days) her cells were cultured and have been saving lives to this day.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Incredibly this is true, but also happened in 2006 and we still haven’t learnt. IMO we need to scream for change. It shouldn’t be needed in the first place nor made a story.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo started painting in 1509, his epic ceiling frescoes, which took several years to complete, are among his most memorable works. Central in a complex system of decoration featuring numerous figures are nine panels devoted to biblical world history.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
I watched a documentary about Japan. These amazing ladies were featured. They do not see themselves as anything special, it’s a duty that they love to fulfil. They realise they maybe the last of “Ama”, women now do not want to take on this incredible life. They really have the secret to longevity.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
An aerial view of The Church Of Saint George reveals a stark stone cross rising from a large cavern carved from the rust-coloured rock of the surrounding mountains. Built sometime between 12th or early 13th century AD in Ethiopia, is a popular site for Christian pilgrims.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A team of Dutch students has created an electric vehicle made entirely out of waste, from plastics recycled from the ocean to household trash. The two-seater car has a top speed of 56 miles per hour and can travel as far 137 miles on a single charge.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Hole Punch Cloud, jets can punch holes in clouds and make small amounts of rain and snow. As a plane flies through mid-level clouds, it forces air to expand rapidly and cool. The gap expands to create spectacular holes in the clouds.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The French invented a “bazooka Vespa.” It was a Vespa 150 TAP scooter armed with an M20 75-millimeter recoilless rifle. The vehicle carrying the weapon could reach the speed of 40 miles per hour and was intended to be used by French paratroopers. Nearly 600 such scooters were created in the 1950s.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
This is a 500 year old shopping list drafted by famous artist Michelangelo. It was illustrated as his servant was likely illiterate. The menu consists mostly of vegetables, fish, wine, and bread and is dated March 18, 1518, around the time of Lent.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The 65-Foot (20m) snow corridor in Japan. Across the 3,000 meter high North Alpine mountains, the “roof of Japan,” connects Toyama and Shinano Omachi.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Rare photo taken in 1938 of the top of the Statue Of Liberty. A steeplejack is doing restoration on the tabula ansata, which is a tablet that evokes the law. The tablet is inscribed with the date July 4, 1776, which is the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
On the left is the world’s largest banana tree growing in the forest of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. It grows the tallest species of bananas and is the world’s largest herbaceous plant. On the right a man for scale.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
One of the largest Mammoth tusks ever found. It weighed about [135 pounds] and it was curled, growing up to 4.9 metres long. Some of these tusks found in permafrost in Siberia can be 50,000 years old.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
World's Biggest Liar is an annual competition held in Cumbria, England. In 2008, John Johnny Liar Graham won the competition for the seventh time after telling the judges a story of a magical ride to Scotland in a wheelie bin that went under the sea.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Matias Ferreira a former US Marine left a double amputee after stepping on an explosive device in Afghanistan, became a police officer in New York. Absolute legend!2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Stokes also had the foresight to invest in Apple stock while the company was still fledgling by using capital from her in-laws. Later on, she would encourage her already-rich in-laws to also invest in Apple, advice which they followed and profited greatly from.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Dolphins can have bromances that can last 15 years. This bond is thought to aid the males with hunting and mating success as well as predator protection.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
While excavating under the World Trade Center, the remains of a ship built with timber harvested in the early 1770s were uncovered. Likely built in Philadelphia, the ship after two decades was deemed junk and used as landfill to extend the banks of the Hudson River and create more land in New York.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
This is the World’s Shortest International Bridge, it measures only 10.4 feet long (3.2 metres), and spans two countries. Funded by the European Union, the tiny bridge connects both Spain and Portugal from each sides of the stream.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Horizons on all the the planetary, lunar and small body surfaces where humanity has either lived, visited, or sent probes to.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
At its peak in the 1980’s, the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was home to 50,000 people in just two hectares of land, the size of about two rugby fields. Making it the densest place on Earth at the time.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
This is William Hitler the nephew of Adolf Hitler being sworn in to United States Navy in 1944. In 1939, he embarked for the United States, eager to share what he had learned about his uncle Adolf and the Nazi regime. Once returned to the civilian world he changed his name to Stuart-Houston.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
If you find yourself lost in New York’s massive Central Park, look closely and each lamp post reveals an etching with four numbers. The first two numbers refer to the street and the second set of numbers will either be even or odd. Even numbers indicate the east side of Manhattan and odd the west.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
For six months in the summer and fall of 1969, Niagara’s American Falls were “de-watered”, as the Army Corps of Engineers conducted a geological survey. Concerned that it was becoming destabilized by erosion, this is North America’s iconic waterfall dry as a desert.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
An adult male Giraffe with Dwarfism stood next to another adult male in Namibia, 2018. Normally Giraffes will have an expected height of 15-20ft, this Giraffe’s only grown to 8ft, half the average height, despite reaching maturity.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Maybe a new way to consider registering your dog, rather than a micro-chip implant. Kinder to your pet and more reliable.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Sumatran Tiger recovering after testing positive for coronavirus in Indonesian Zoo, 2/8/21.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/pics
Grape Bricks!! During Prohibition, if the grape grower gave clear warning that Grape Bricks were not to be used for the creation of alcohol they were off the hook. With these loopholes in place, the creation of these bricks gave the ability for U.S. citizens to continue consuming wine.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Worlds clearest picture of the Moon. Andrew McCarthy took thousands of images of the Moon in two weeks to create the photo you see here. Combining the images he took successfully, McCarthy succeeded in creating the clearest Moon photograph in the world as a result of his works.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
NASA survival training: Frank Borman, Neil Armstrong, John Young, and Deke Slayton during desert survival training in Nevada, 1964.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
The Tomb of Daniel at Samarkand is an 18m long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet. Local legend states that the body of Daniel was continually growing at a rate of around 5cm a year. Five domes adorn the long structure that holds the 18m long sarcophagus.2yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
