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One in a million moment, photographed by Debbie Parker.

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The story of Juliane Koepcke, the 17-year-old girl who was the sole survivor of the LANSA Flight 508 plane crash in the Amazon forest in 1971. She fell 3,000 m strapped to her seat and spent 11 days alone in the jungle before being rescued.

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Freddie Mercury and David Bowie at Live Aid, 1985

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Rosalyn and Jimmy way back in 1966. She turns 96 on Friday and has now joined Jimmy in Hospice care at their home in Plains. Their grandson says they still hold hands. For her birthday there's a planned butterfly release in their backyard and at homes around Plains. Rare to see such a beautiful love

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This is a single tree... It's the world's largest cashew tree and covers an area of about 8,000 square meters.

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A new ocean is forming in Africa along a 35-mile crack that opened up in Ethiopia in 2005. The crack, which has been expanding ever since, is a result of three tectonic plates pulling away from each other. 📷 Anthony Philpotts

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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

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This carnivore plant is called Nepenthes Holdenii

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The size of a Hummingbird nest.

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Photo taken by NASA of a space shuttle leaving our atmosphere.

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On December 10, 1997 Julia Hill climbed a 1500-year-old redwood tree named Luna and she didn’t come down for another 738 days.

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Photographer Wu Yung-sen has been deep sea diving and photographing marine life for four years. On a blackwater dive—unable to see the bottom and surrounded by impenetrable space—he chanced upon a rare larval Wunderpus octopus, totally transparent.

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In 1663, the skull of a woolly rhinoceros was discovered along with the tusk from a narwhale & the front legs of a mammoth in Germany. This is how the “Magdeburg Unicorn” was assembled, one of the worst fossil reconstructions in human history.

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Angela Lansbury told a story about her daughter falling under the spell of a Hollywood deadbeat. He would pick the girl up from school and get her to steal money and food from her parents for him. Worried, Lansbury moved the entire family to Ireland. The guy was Charles Manson.

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This is Princess Lili'uokalani. She would become the last sovereign ruler of Hawaii. The photo was taken in 1853 when she was only 15 years old.

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Queensland, Australia - Sailfish are considered the fastest fish in the sea, reaching top speeds of 70 miles per hour (112km/h). Photo by Ben Bright

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A sixty-one year-old woman and her twelve year-old granddaughter in the same photo.

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Scottish man Angus Barbieri fasted for 392 days, from June 14, 1965, to July 11, 1966. He lost 276 pounds and set a record for the length of a fast. He consumed only vitamins, electrolytes, an unspecified amount of yeast (a source of all essential amino acids) and zero-calorie beverages such as tea,

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This man was forced to give his dog to the Humane Society due to undergoing lengthy hospital stay. This nurse found out and immediately went to the shelter and adopted his dog. She brings him to visit daily and will return him as soon as the man is released!❤️ Credit: Sensitive-Ad-8403

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In 1997, photographer Ricardo Stuckert took this iconic photo of Penha Goes, a 22-year-old girl from the Yanomani tribe in Amazonas, Brazil.

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This rock face has a hole in it with water mist coming out forming mini rainbow.

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Tokyo is the largest and the most populated city on earth: the latest estimates indicate that more than 37 million people live there. [📷 Yuto Yamada]

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A 13-year-old competitive Tetris player prodigy from Oklahoma advanced so far in the original Nintendo version of the game that it froze and his score read “999999.” “I can’t feel my fingers,” Willis Gibson said afterward.

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Dead man’s fingers fungus (Xylaria Polymorpha). The mushroom's fruiting body usually appears in tufts of three to six 'fingers' that are often bent, giving the impression of arthritic black knuckles.

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This 5,830-year-old timber causeway called 'Sweet Track' is one of the oldest known engineered roadways and has been remarkably well-preserved.

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Shirley Temple posing by a painting of herself as a young child, 1945

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A portrait of 10 chiefs, 1891 1. Standing Bull 2. Bear who looks back running 3. Has the big white horse 4. White tail 5. Liver bear 6. Little thunder 7. Bull dog 8. High hawk 9. Lame 10. Eagle pipe

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“Some Of The Numerous Handprints That Were Carved Into The Soft Sandstone Surface Of The White Mountain, In Wyoming, By The Ancestral Eastern Shoshone, 1000-1800 CE”

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Thousands of years ago, Inuit and Yupik people of the Arctic carved narrow slits into ivory, antler and wood to create snow goggles. This diminished exposure to direct and reflected ultraviolet rays thereby reducing eye strain and preventing snow blindness.

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Susan Sarandon photographed on her wedding day in 1967.

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Shirley Temple and Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson were the first interracial couple to dance onscreen (1935)

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December 22nd, 1977, Bill Withers released Lovely Day, holding a sustained note towards the end which, at 18 seconds long, is one of the longest ever recorded on an American pop song.

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In 1969, when Black Americans were prevented from swimming alongside whites, Mr. Rogers invited Officer Clemmons to join him and cool his feet in a pool.

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Terry Fox, a cancer patient who ran 3,339 miles across Canada in just 143 days before he died. His career goal was to collect donations for cancer research. As a result, U$ 25 million was raised.

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A massive moth that is practically never seen by humans was recently discovered on a construction site at an Australian school. The massive insect is so hefty that it can’t fly, and it only grows to its full size a few days before mating. Then it perishes

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Botanical Park of Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Founded in 1808, it is considered one of the most important in the world.

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Robert De Niro aged three with his 24-year-old father Robert De Niro Sr. in 1946.

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2 hour old hippo

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Amethyst mushrooms, found only in Tasmania, reproduce by splitting open internal structures to release spores, creating a tiny galaxy within the mushrooms.

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Sadly, this giant Wolf-dog was dumped at a kill shelter after growing too big and becoming too much for the owner to handle. Thankfully, a sanctuary took him instead and saved his life! His DNA testing came back as 87.5% Gray Wolf, 8.6% Siberian Husky and 3.9% German Shepherd.

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George Harrison's diary entry, 10th January 1969

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Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin And Hobbes, 1986.

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Willie Nelson, Lionel Richie, Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen during the recording of We Are The World in 1985.

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7,000 year-old giraffe engravings in the Sahara Desert.

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The survival story of Ben, the elephant that after being shot by poachers in Zimbabwe in 2016, walked to a medical lodge and patiently waited outside for 5 hours

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Giant Groundsels, prehistoric plants found on top of Mt Kilimanjaro

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These two photographs are separated by 66 years

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Astronomers Discover A Water Reservoir Floating In Space That Is Equivalent To 140 Trillion Times All The Water In The Earth’s Ocean

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Exciting to see this. (I'm a biology PHD). The most detailed model of ONE human cell to date, obtained using x-rays, nuclear magnetic resonance, and cryoelectron microscopy data sets. Aren't we all just so filled with magical possibilities? Can you see the 2 cell membrane pumps? The mitochondria?

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On this day in 1972, Carly Simon released You're So Vain, which has long been a matter of speculation of who it's about. Carly revealed the song refers to three men, only one of whom she has named publicly: actor Warren Beatty.

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Anne Frank, with her sister Margot at Zandvoort Beach, 1940.

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1/18/1981: The Plasmatics’ Wendy O. Williams is arrested on stage in Milwaukee and charged with simulating sex with a sledgehammer.

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Building a 13th-century castle in France using medieval techniques. Guedelon Castle - 2000 vs 2008 vs 2023.

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44 years ago these two guys met in this very record store and formed a band. All these years, tours, awards, songs and ups/downs later, here they are again. A friendship that started with a love of music continues to this day. May we all be so lucky. /@rem

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Dolly Parton with her husband Carl Dean. They’ve been married since 1966.

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The camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique and iconic view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth in August 2015, from a distance of 1 million miles.

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A Sioux boy on a horse. South Dakota. ca. 1895-1899. Photo by Jesse H. Bratley.

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Kummakivi, situated in Ruokolahti, Finland, is a remarkable geological formation where a massive rock weighing approximately 75 tons or 68,000 kg has delicately balanced on top of another rock for thousands of years.

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The natural rock formation known as the Dragon's Eye in Lancashire, UK

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German Lutheran pasto pacifist, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was 34 when the Nazis hanged him. He was involved in a plot to kill Hitler. He said that when a maniac is driving down the street running over people the Christian’s duty is do more than pray for the victims. Someone has to stop the car... no matter

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Built in 1939, Þridrangar lighthouse is possibly the most isolated lighthouse in the world

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Guitarist Lita Ford of The Runaways, 1976.

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The Ardennes Draft Horse is considered one of the oldest breeds of draft horse, and is believed to be a direct descendent of the prehistoric ‘Solutre Horse.

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Tea plantation, Indonesia

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January 1st, in 1974, having lost guitarist Bob Welch, Fleetwood Mac made an offer to Lindsey Buckingham, but he wouldn't join unless his girlfriend, Stevie Nicks, got to join as well. The band accepted, and that was a good decision.

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4/16/1993: David Lee Roth is arrested at New York City’s Washington Square Park for allegedly buying a $10 bag of weed from an undercover police officer. Talk about a waste of time...

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A megalithic monument in Spain that's older than the Pyramids was recently uncovered from its watery hiding place by a drought. The Spanish Stonehenge is about 7,000 years old, some 2,000 years older than Stonehenge itself!

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Goldie Hawn, 1970s

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12 pictures of the sun, each month, same place and same time

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February 25, 2024 Photographer Gunarto Song was taking photos of Mount Merapi, a very active volcano in Indonesia, when something amazing happened.

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Ever wondered how big the talons on an eagle are compared to a human hand? This photo gives you an idea.

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Behold, a living relic from a bygone era – the ancient Miyajima White Pine tree. Planted in 1625, this bonsai tree has defied the sands of time, surviving for almost 400 years.

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Embryonic differences between Dolphins and Humans

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Scientists have revived a plant from the Pleistocene epoch. This plant is 32 thousand years old! Yes, it is the oldest plant ever to be resurrected and was grown from 32,000-year-old seeds, beating the previous record by some 30,000 years.

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Giant African Snail

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This is what a bear looks like without hair. Dolores, a spectacled bear at the Leipzig Zoo in Germany in 2009 had this condition caused by a wrong diet. When the diet was corrected the fur grew back completely within 4 months.

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This is the only picture ever taken of the Concorde flying at Mach 2 (1,350 mph). Taken from an RAF Tornado fighter jet, which only rendezvoused with Concorde for 4 minutes over the Irish Sea.

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Today in 1946, Viola Desmond was dragged out of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, injuring her hip. She was charged by police after she refused to move from the main floor to the balcony where Black patrons sat. Her case sparked the modern Canadian civil rights movement.

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This is the heart of a Blue whale. Weighing in excess of 1,300 lbs (±600 kg), it is the size of a small car. The gigantic heart beats 8-10 times per minute, and each heartbeat can be heard from over 2 miles (3.2 km) away.

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The giant lemons of the Amalfi Coast in Italy

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2yr old Jeff Bridges with his Dad, Lloyd, in 1951.

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2.5 foot tall chicken

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2-year-old Elvis Presley with his parents, 1937.

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The short-faced bear is an extinct ancient bear that lived in North America 11,000 years ago.

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Debbie Harry and David Bowie, 1977

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The worlds largest bird sculpture

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December 2th,1983 Michael Jackson's Thriller video was first broadcast on MTV.

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Hummingbird nest.

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Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) with His Mum Doris (1945).

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The first photograph taken of Frederick Douglass around 1841, a few years after his escape from slavery Source: African Archives

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Giant South African Bullfrog.

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Hedy Lamarr was born on this day in 1914. Once celebrated as the most beautiful woman in the world, she was actually a remarkable inventor who devised a system for remote-controlling torpedoes that became the basis for bluetooth and wifi

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Pictured in this photo is Berta and Roger Mills, who were Mississippi’s first interracial married couple since 1890.

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2/2/1979: Ex-Pistol Sid Vicious is found dead from an inevitable drug overdose, surrounded in controversy. He was only 21.

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The true scale of Michelangelo's David

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The Ili pika (Ochotona iliensis) is a critically endangered species of mammal in the family Ochotonidae, endemic to northwest China. It was discovered in 1983: this is the first documented photo in 20 years, taken in 2015.

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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy Remembering ‘The Big Fitz’ and the 29 souls aboard on this, the 48th anniversary of her tragic loss...

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The Sail Rock Krasnodar Krai, Russia

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Leaf Sheep, Japan

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Linda Ronstadt. 1970s

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