Rocks on the lake Baikal get heated from the sunlight every now and then and melt the ice beneath. After the sun is gone, the ice turns solid again thus creating a small stand for the rock above. It is called the Baikal Dzen.4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Baby Driver behind the scenes: while actors are busy performing, the real driver is on top of the car4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Canadian photographer Francois Brunelle spent 12 years tracking down real-life Doppelgangers — two individuals who are not related but could pass for identical twins — and photographing them.4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Rami Malek's bow tie on Oscars is an ultimate metaphor for life: everyone tries to fix it but somehow it still manages to stay fucked up4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/funny
Siberian unicorn — a giant rhino that may have been the origin of the unicorn myth, roamed the Earth with humans 39,000 years ago3yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Giant African land snail (Achatina fulica) is one of the biggest ones there is and also looks like a rabbit4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/pics
Gollum as seen by Soviet artist Mikhail Belomlinsky(1976). He's best known for his astonishing illustrations for the Soviet edition of The Hobbit4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/pics
One of the many camera resolution test charts scattered across the US. The most have dimensions of around 50-80 feet and are coated in heavy black and white paint, looks like a barcode and their origin dates back to the late 1950s when they were used to calibrate flying cameras.4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A team of scientists found a fossil of a 520 million-year-old sea monster that has 18 tentacles around its mouth4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Battle Axe Rum's ad leaflet, early 20th century. It presented a young woman taking a bath. When unfolded one would discover the same woman serving hot beverages to two men.4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The iconic Balancing Rock overlooking St. Mary's Bay in Nova Scotia. Also called precarious boulder it is a naturally occurring geological formation featuring a large rock or boulder resting on other rocks, bedrock, or on glacial till.4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Ice shards piling up on Lake Michigan (photo by Joel Bissell). Because of extremely cold weather, waves turned into ice creating ice-shelves. After ice started to melt, the moving water helped to create this astonishing view.4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
There're early sketches of The Middle Earth J.R.R. Tolkien used to build the world of The Lord of the Rings. It included the detailed maps of every major region and even the layout of Shelob's Lair and Mordor Distances and Dates - to calculate the length of Frodo's journey. Here's a Moria West Gate4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The dispute between Nixon and Khrushchev about the merits of capitalism and communism that happened during the exhibition the US had in Moscow. It is also known as Kitchen Debates - the most fierce discussion occurred near the model of the American kitchen, 1959 [1200 x 806]4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Every metro station in Moscow is equipped with such a device - the explosion-proof steel box. According to safety instruction, every suspicious looking device should be put in there and then taken somewhere safe for defusing.4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
4.5m (14.7ft) statue of Gimli in Auckland Airport. Don't remember him to be this big though4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/pics
The Mangbetu Tribe has a custom called Lipombo: just a month after birth a babies heads were tightly wrapped with cloth in order to deform the shape of its head. The elongated skull is a symbol of the aristocracy and believed to depict majesty, beauty, power, and higher intelligence4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Old nobility's flats in St.Petersburg are used as dorms and shared apartments now4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
More than 100 mi2 of greenhouses in the southeast of Spain. Built in 1985, the cluster is producing fruits and veggies thus providing most of the consumption in Europe.4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/pics
Bondy beach's Beach-o-batcis - a popular pastime in the 30s among Australian youth. Captured by amateur photographer George Caddy, all tricks were performed with the help from local Acrobatics Society.4yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Gerald Ford gifts his wolfskin coat to Leonid Brezhnev, Vladivostok, November 24, 19744yr ⋅ moniso ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
