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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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Thousands of Volkswagen and Audi cars sitting idle in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Models manufactured from 2009 to 2015 were designed to cheat emissions tests mandated by the United States EPA. Following the scandal, Volkswagen had to recall millions of cars. (Credit:Jassen Tadorov)

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An image of the exact moment lightning struck a body of water.

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One of planet Earth's largest uncut diamonds. It is worth about... 52 million dollars.

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🔥 An extremely toxic Dofleinia armata that washed ashore near Broome, Western Australia.

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Mother and her 1 year-old son have very uncommon heterochromia leaving them with beautiful and mesmerizing swirled blue and black eyes.

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A battleship armadillo in safety mode.

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The highlands of Iceland don't even look real. By: Anar Kristjanson

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🔥 A beautiful red deer walking in frosted grass in the early morning light: by Max Ellis

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A giant technicolor squirrel in India.

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🔥 Two massive red deer deep in the forests of Vercors, France

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🔥 A large pod of Orcas. By: Paul Nicklen

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🔥 Huge Red deer stag bellowing in the early morning; France.

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Alexander the Great, based on his busts and ancient accounts of him.

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2 women washing water lilies from above. Chau Doc, Vietnam. By: Khanh Phan

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The graves of a catholic woman and her protestant husband, Holland 1888.

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Mt Rainier in Washington state casting a shadow at sunset

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A single fallen tree holding back the Duckweed in the wetlands of Louisiana

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🔥 A massive microburst dumping millions of gallons of water over southern Phoenix. By: Bruce Haffner

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Behind a frozen waterfall.

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Earth or Mars??? The highlands of Iceland.

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November 2, 2000 was the last time ALL humans beings were on the planet together. The International Space Station has been occupied with at least a few humans since that date.

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This is Alex, an African Grey parrot believed to be the first animal ever to ask an existential question. He wanted to know what color he was. He was the subject of a 30 year animal psych experiment at Harvard University, and at 2 he was correctly answering questions made for 6 year-old humans.

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A lion, a bear, and a tiger were all rescued around the same time, and all 3 were very young. They soon became inseparable, and have lived all their lives together.

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26 year-old Jim Morrison in 1970, the year before he died.

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Everyone loves baby cats.

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Elijah Wood and Macaulay Culkin, 1993.

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This lone Timber Wolf standing on a rock and reflecting on the dead-calm water at the height of autumn looks like something from game of thrones. Taken by wildlife photographer Reimar Gaertner

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An Indian Elephant swimming in the ocean from below. By: Steve Bloom

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Fog so thick it looks like smoke from a wildfire.

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Two sharks surfing at Red Bluff, a remote surf break about 14 hours north of Perth, Western Australia.

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Half tabby/half black cat.

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The oldest house in France. It is in the city of Aveyron, and it is at least 700 years old.

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🔥 A rather large group of young, adolescent male lions looking for trouble in Tanzania. By: Daniel Dolpire

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A ridiculously overcrowded throng of climbers attempting to summit Mt Everest via the South Col route.

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This image of 6 waterspouts in the Gulf of Mexico. (Image credit: Frank Leday)

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1,000 year-old copper (99.5% pure) arrowhead attached to a piece of barbed bone. It was found in a melting patch of ice near Carcross in Yukon, northwestern Canada. It is one of the earliest examples of copper metallurgy ever found in the Yukon, well before any contact with Europeans. [3264 x 2448]

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In Kenya it seems that a heard of grazing elephants lies at the end of a rainbow, not a pot of gold. By: Kaizer Allu

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This forest with trees covered in green moss right after all of the colorful leaves fell to the ground in Basque Country (an autonomous region in northeastern Spain) looks like something out of a fairy tale, especially shrouded in thick fog. By: Mikel Martinez de Osaba

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Exaggerated relief map of the British Isles.

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Our solar system, sizes to scale.

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Dammit willow... not again. You are not a dolphin, and you swim like sh*t.

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Light pillars, an optical phenomenon caused when light is refracted by ice crystals in mild fog. They usually take on the color of the surrounding light source.

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Forensic reconstruction by the Kennis brothers of a neanderthal man and his son who lived in Europe about 50,000 years ago. They use ancient skulls found by archaeologists and layer clay over a cast, as well and flesh out the face using a chart detailing known tissue thickness at particular points

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You sure you want it full speed? Bring it...

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🔥 Extremely rare twins Elon Tusk and 'Emma born to a wild elephant herd in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. Only 1% of elephant births result in twins.

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This ice formation caused by heavy wind on a mountain-top in Slovenia.

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How Betelgeuse will appear in our sky when it goes supernova. It will be a Type II supernova, so being 548 light-years away, its apparent magnitude will be between -12 and -13, which is similar to a full moon. It will easily be visible during the day. [1500 x 1000] (Image credit: Joseph Rimcis)

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Close-up of a snowflake.

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Traveling at 186,282 miles every single second (299,792 km/sec), which is the speed of light, human-made radio waves have gone a laughably small distance through one of our galaxy's massive spiral arms. Space is so big, it is almost impossible to comprehend.

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Photographer Arnfinn Johansen used a remote control car attached to his camera (in a protected housing and zoomed way in) to capture an up close and personal image of this male lion watching over part of his territory in the fading light of the day in the Maasai Mara, National Park in Kenya.

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A perfect red line in a Hungarian forest marking the high point of a toxic aluminum sludge spill.

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A severe supercell thunderstorm glowing poison-green while swallowing the countryside near Halle, Germany. (Image credit: Jonas Pionteck)

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🔥 A crocodile peering through the mud. (Credit: Jens Cullmann)

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1,600 year-old socks that were excavated by archeologists in Egypt. They were intended to be worn with sandals, and were knitted in stocking stitch using three-ply wool and the single needle technique. (Image credit: David Jackson)

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This image of 2 bees taking a power nap together after a feast of pollen. Certain bees (Diadasia diminuta, or Globe Mallow bees) sleep in the orange flowers called Globe Mallows. (Image credit: Joe Neely)

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🔥 Dolphins taking whichever waves they want with no regards for the surfers. Black's Beach, San Diego. (Image credit: Cliff Endsley)

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Blind Melon lead singer Shannon Hoon and Chris Farley at Woodstock 1994 on the 25th anniversary of the famous Woodstock 1969.

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This is what a surfer riding a wave over very shallow reef looks like from underwater

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🔥 Two Owl Butterflies

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A Japanese Macaque keeping up foreign relations with wildlife photographer Jari Peltomaki

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Ingots thought to be Orichalcum, the metal mentioned in several ancient writings. In 2015, 39 of them were discovered in a 2,100 year old shipwreck on the coast of Gala in Sicily. They were 80% copper, 15-20% zinc, and smaller percentages of nickel, lead, and iron. [2560 x 1707]

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Shy male Orangutan peaking around a tree in the forests of Indonesia looking eerily similar to us humans, leaving little doubt about our last-common ancestor millions and millions of years ago (about 16 million years ago to be exact, based on genetic studies)

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🔥 Mom brown bear looking very happy and content with her 4 healthy cubs, 2 more than the average litter size. Alaska.

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The successful October 2020 sample collection showing the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touching down on the asteroid Bennu. It landed within 3 feet of the targeted location, and successfully collected asteroid material that will arrive back at Earth on 24 September 2023. (Credit: NASA/U. of Ariz.)

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Less colorful, but equally stunning, view of one of the “pillars of creation” deep inside Messier 16 (Eagle Nebula) 5,700 light-years from earth. This pillar is roughly 4 light-years tall. (Hubble)

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Messier 64. It has really strange internal motion; the gas in the outer regions and the gas in the inner regions are rotating in opposite directions, probably due to a recent merger. New stars are forming in the region where the counter rotating gases collide. [4032 x 3483] (ESA/NASA, J. Schmidt)

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Nature consuming an ancient flour mill from the 1300’s in the Vally of the Mills, Sorrento, Italy.

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Two near-infrared images of the Western Wall in the Carina Nebula. The image on the right was captured by the 8.1 meter Gemini South Telescope in Chile using a near-infrared adaptive optics, which represented a 10-fold increase of the telescope's resolution.[1920 x 1799] (Credit: Gemini Observatory)

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A lioness looking through an animal carcass with a piercing eye. Botswana, Okavango Delta. By: Panos Laskarakis

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A 121 year-old image of a family of Sami people, an indigenous Finno-Ugric people who inhabit the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland & the Kola Peninsula within the Murmansk Oblast of Russia. They are semi-nomadic reindeer herders, and also rely on fishing, fur trapping, & sheep herding.

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5th century Roman gold body chain w/ amethyst and garnet stones (the 4 missing are thought to have been pearls). It was found with the Hoxne Hoard, a large treasure found in Suffolk, England in 1992. It was buried sometime around 407 AD, coinciding w/ the end of Roman rule in Britain. [2518 x 2828]

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Skara Brae from above, a 5,000 year-old stone-built neolithic village on one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland. The settlement was inhabited between 3180-2500 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids in Egypt. [1600 x 1067]

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The beginning of a river deep in the mountains of northern British Colombia in Canada. (Image credit: Mark Adamus)

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A wolf eel, pure nightmare fuel.

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Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria, Germany looks like something out of a fairytale.

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Deep in the backcountry of Finland.

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Xerxes I inscription from the 5th century BCE (in trilingual cuneiform) located 70 feet (20 meters) above the ground on a smoothed section of rock face adjacent to the Van Fortress, near Lake Van in present-day Turkey. (Translation and image of cliff in comments) [3456 x 2592]

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Night lights of Central Europe

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An image from 1898 of a farmer posing in front of his house in the Black Forest, southwest Germany. (Credit: the US Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division)

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This long-exposure pic of our galaxy over the Yellowstone River in Montana doesn't even look real. (It is real). It leaves little doubt about what kind of galaxy we live in, with the galactic center and the disc of our galaxy clearly visible. By: Jake Mosher

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A lion cub that is blind in one eye looks pretty creepy. Still cute, but creepy,

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Hickson Compact Group 40. It consists of 3 spiral galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular galaxy, all caught in a leisurely gravitational dance in a very small and isolated region of space. They will eventually merge together to form one massive galaxy. [2560 x 2317] (NASA & Alyssa Pagan)

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Quebec owning Christmas. By: Emmanuel Coveney

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A sunset viewed from the International Space Station. [1079 x 961] (Credit: NASA/ESA)

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A crystal dagger uncovered in the megalithic tomb of Montelirio in Tholos, Spain, thought to be over 6,000 years-old.

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🔥 Elk drinking water in Montana. By: Tom Murphy

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Poor deer. Not a very good way to go out, all things considered.

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2 moose got their antlers locked together in an epic battle and drowned, then froze into the Alaskan river during winter. (Image credit: Brad Webster)

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NGC 2336, a massive barred spiral galaxy over 200,000 light-years across. It has at least 8 spiral arms, with numerous H II regions, emanating from the ring-like structure around the bar. It is located about 100 million light-years from Earth. [7734 x 3055] (Credit: NASA/ESA, J. Schmidt)

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Intrepid Crater on Mars captured by the Opportunity Rover. [2048 x 1572] (Image: Kevin Gill, NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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🔥 Polar bear peacefully napping in a field of pink Fireweed during summertime near Northern Canada's Hudson Bay.

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Tracy Caldwell Dyson admiring the view of Earth from the Cupola module on the International Space Station.

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A massive waterspout in Louisiana. By: Laura Buchtel

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A tree that has seen some shit over the years.

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The Malone Hoard, a hoard of highly polished and unused Neolithic axes dating to 4,500-2,500 BCE. They were made at a Neolithic axe quarry at the foot of Tievebulliagh mountain in Ireland, and were found not too far away at Danesfort, on the Malone Road, in Belfast. [4156 x 3078]

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The inside of one of the Knap of Howar Neolithic farmstead buildings on Papa Westray (an island with very fertile soil), one of the most northern of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The 2 buildings date to roughly 3,500 BC, making it the oldest preserved house in Northern Europe [960 x 720]

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Animation of the proper motion of the Pleiades star cluster over the next 400,000 years. The star cluster is one of the nearest clusters to Earth, lying about 444 light-years away. It is dominated by hot, B-type stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. (Credit: Alexander Meleg)

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Relative sizes of the 7 planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system compared to Earth. The star and its planets are about 40 light-years away from us in the constellation Aquarius. The system is much older than ours, estimated to be around 7.6 billion years old. [1280 x 812] (Credit: European Space Agency)

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Huge stash of 1,600 year-old Roman coins that were found buried in Northern Italy that date to the 4th-5th century AD. The coins contain engravings of emperors Honorius, Valentinian III, Leon I, Antonio, and Libio Severo.

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The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, a bronze statue that was erected around 175 AD. It is the only Roman equestrian statue that has survived into the modern period. [3832 x 4621]

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The Portonaccio battle sarcophagus. One of a group of about 25 late Roman battle sarcophagi, this one shows Roman victories over different germanic tribes and dates to between 190 and 200. It was used for the burial of a Roman general involved in the campaigns of Marcus Aurelius. [2560 x 1707]

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