23 Fascinating Photos to Fuel Your Sense of Wonder
Daniel Bonfiglio
Published
07/29/2024
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One of the great glories of the modern internet is the ability to get a look at things you might never have seen or heard about otherwise. These 24 fascinating photos show everything from spectacular landscapes to landmark historical moments, so take them in right here, on the glorious internet.
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Mount Rainier perfectly aligned with the University of Washington. -
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Basílica De La Sagrada Familia. -
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Elizabeth Francis, the oldest living American, turned 115 yesterday! -
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"Opening a 17 year old can of corn." -
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The world’s thinnest skyscraper in New York City. -
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Vice grips in a meth lab. -
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Of all the US Presidents, 6 had brown eyes, 4 had hazel eyes, 5 had blueish-grey eyes, and 31 had blue eyes. -
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Yellow crystals of elemental sulfur found on Mars for the first time by NASA's Curiosity Rover, after it drove over a rock and cracked it open. -
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Yellowstone's Black Diamond Pool in the park’s Biscuit Basin erupted, ejecting an immense amount of black water and debris onto a nearby boardwalk, destroying it. -
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French airspace during the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Olympics. -
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Family turns down $50 million from developer who built a suburb around their home. -
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In 2001, Kenny Waters, a man wrongfully imprisoned for 18 years, was finally released after his high school drop out sister went to law school, so that she could prove his innocence. -
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Elugelab island before and after the testing of the first hydrogen bomb in 1952. The explosion left a crater two miles in diameter and 180 feet deep. -
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Team USA’s U16 women’s basketball standing next to El Salvador’s U16 team. The score was 114 to 19. -
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Photos illustrating different levels of drunkenness, 1860s. -
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A "new" Pizza Hut coming soon to former a Pizza Hut. -
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UBE Mitsubishi Cement Factory In Kyushu, Japan. -
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In the early 19th century, bird hat was one of the most popular fashion trends. -
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A 13-year-old stumbled upon a Roman-era ring while hiking. The small artifact, discovered near an ancient farmstead, features an engraving of the goddess Minerva. -
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The Sukhoi KR-860 earlier named the SKD-717, was a proposed design for a double-decker wide-body superjumbo jet aircraft by Russian aerospace company Sukhoi. A 1/24th scale model was shown at the 1999 Paris Air Show. -
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40 years ago today, Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a spacewalk.
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