261 best u/thebigchil73 images on Pholder | Interestingasfuck, Damnthatsinteresting and Nature Is Fucking Lit

The lower dungeon in Warwick Castle. It’s an ‘oubliette’ where prisoners were dropped and forgotten about

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$5k in gold vs $5k in silver

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The smartest people ever assembled in one photo. Seventeen of them are Nobel Prize winners - Einstein is in the middle and Marie Curie two seats to the left. She won prizes in two separate scientific disciplines - still the only person have done so [5th Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics, 1927]

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This diver dude just found an 11thC crusader sword in the sea near Israel

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Population density of the US

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$5k in gold vs $5k in silver

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Small gargoyle biting a bigger gargoyle - Salisbury Cathedral, UK

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🔥 The size of a Kiwi’s egg

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Cyclops was likely inspired by pygmy elephant skulls - found throughout the Greek islands

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🔥 Sperm Whales are by far the largest predator on earth - they weigh approx 150 Polar Bears. They’re also one of the deepest diving whales - diving down 3km (1.8 miles) on the hunt for Giant Squid

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Tesco market research fail

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A toucan’s skull to beak ratio

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The only furniture you'll ever need

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Archeological evidence of a crucifixion from Roman Britain - only four such examples are known worldwide [Cambridgeshire, UK; somewhere between 130-360CE]

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Christmas book tree at St Pancras station. The little cabins at the bottom read you a story whilst you’re waiting for your train

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Cyclops was likely inspired by pygmy elephant skulls - found throughout the Greek islands

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Newgrange is a passage tomb in Ireland - it’s older than the Pyramids and Stonehenge

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Gene Wilder only accepted playing Willy Wonka on one condition: that he could enter with a limp, lose his cane without realising and then ‘fall over’ but somersault back to his feet. Asked why, Wilder said, “because from that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth.”

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48 superimposed photos of the sun - taken once per week at the same time & place. The highest point is the summer solstice and the lowest is the winter solstice [Burgos Cathedral, Spain]

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Naked mole rats are the only mammals that are eusocial like wasps or ants. Each colony has one fertile queen and 3 fertile males - all the rest are sterile workers. They’re also effectively cold-blooded and can’t feel pain in their skin.

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After 500 years of attempts the Gjøa was the first ship to make the North-West Passage, from Atlantic to Pacific above Canada. It’s still intact in Oslo, Norway.

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Our evolutionary cousins, the Denisovans - who could happily breed with us - lived alongside Gigantopithecus

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This is the only sub that might understand me dual-screening Elden Ring and the snooker

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Vending machine selling single lighted cigarettes [1931]

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Map of Pangea with modern borders

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Le Passe-Muraille (‘walker through walls’) sculpture in the Paris Catacombs

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This Roman statue was just discovered in Britain whilst digging a new train route.

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Half of Charles Babbage’s brain is displayed at the Science Museum, London. (The other half is at the Hunterian Museum, also London)

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David Bowie with Ola Hudson - a renowned fashion designer and also the mother of Slash from Guns & Roses [1976]

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Albert Pierrepoint was England’s main executioner for 25 years up to 1956. He hung somewhere between 450 and 600 people. He later said “All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.”

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Cyberman smoking on the set in 1968

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🔥 The geometry of Nymphalia Antiopa butterfly eggs

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The full-page ad Spielberg took out when Star Wars broke the records Jaws had set two years earlier

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Terrible review of the Beatles when they first appeared on US television

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big dadjoke energy

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The good ole days [Oklahoma, 1926]

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Newgrange is a passage tomb in Ireland - built around 5,200 years ago. It’s older than the Pyramids and Stonehenge

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The detail of this little gargoyle biting a bigger gargoyle [Salisbury Cathedral, UK]

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Paladin squirrel

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British jobs for British dogs

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For decades we thought Homo Sapiens evolved in East Africa 200k years ago. But it’s now widely accepted that this skull pushes the date back to 300k years ago, and in Morocco, North Africa

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Queuing for a rave in 1992 [Fantazia, Castle Donnington]

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🔥 The Bee Hummingbird is the smallest bird ever known - weighing around 2g. Their wings can beat 200 times per second

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What germs you got bithc

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The Sphinx co-existed with mammoths for approx 500 years.

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Bluetooth is named after the Danish King Harald 'Bluetooth' Gormsson, who had a dead tooth. The Bluetooth logo uses Viking runes representing the H and B of his name. He united the 10thC Danish tribes, which is why his name got used for a unifying tech.

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Basque is the only surviving Neolithic language in Europe. Their words for knife (aizto), axe (aizkora), and hoe (aitzur) may all derive from stone (haitz)

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The gravestone of Dorothy Pentreath [died 1777]. She was the last native speaker of Cornish, a Celtic language related to Welsh

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Stromatolites owned Earth for approx 2bn years before anyone else turned up.

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The Jerboa has the biggest ears of an animal, relative to its size

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Harald 'Bluetooth' Gormsson managed to unite the Viking tribes, which is why his name got used for a unifying tech - the logo combines the runes H and B of his name

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Standard English has I was but you were. This is now based on plurals but in England many N/NE local dialects still use were for all forms, and likewise was in the South. This map asks whether the local dialects may correspond to the Danelaw, allowing for some later attested spread. [OC]

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This a bit meta but thought it might be of interest. The Milesian myth and genetic data suggest that major migrations into Ireland may have come by sea from NW Spain but it’s hotly disputed. This language map agrees though, and also helps explain why Welsh is unintelligible to Irish speakers. [OC]

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American vegetables divided Europe smh

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Woman tries photograph a key worker’s penis and **she’s** horrified.

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Winston Churchill took part in the last major cavalry charge of the British Army (1898), aged 23

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🔥 Naked mole rats are the only mammals that are eusocial like wasps or ants. Each colony has one fertile queen and 3 fertile males - all the rest are sterile workers. They’re also effectively cold-blooded and can’t feel pain in their skin.

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🔥 Five insects

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Joseph Kittinger survived G-force of 22g whilst parachuting from 31.3km in 1959. He passed out in a velocity spin before his emergency chute opened, allowing him to live until yesterday. His record stood for 52 years.

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