The real world is far more fascinating than any sci-fi film.
There are swarm drones that come together to look like real UFOs, parasites that cause frogs to grow extra limbs, ancient statues of winged gods, knives made out of space rock, gargantuan solar farms, and a lot more.
Here’s a collection of fascinating things to make you see the world through a more curious lens.
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A Massive 2700-Year-Old, 18-Ton Statue Of An Assyrian Deity that was excavated in Iraq In November 2023
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The skull of a hippo in comparison to a human skull
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Spade toothed Whale, a species so rare it has never been seen alive
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Examples of 3D street painting designed to slow down traffic without the need for speed bumps or extra signage
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Tutankhamun’s blade made from a meteorite
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A bald eagle's nest with a ranger for scale
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Aquapod fish farms that float in the ocean
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Saturn's Maelstrom
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NASA's space shuttle silhouetted in the Earth’s atmosphere
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A Green Stone Located In The Ancient City Of Hattusa, Çorum, Turkey, today
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ITAP of a region in the milky way for 42 hours
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Very rare bilateral gynandromorph stag beetle. One half is male, the other half is female
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New bright comet SWAN25F
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3D map of a cubic millimeter of mouse brain reveals half a billion synapses
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This church in Belgium was converted into a rock climbing gym
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Lightning strike on the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world
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Ribeiroia ondatrae, a parasite that can live in frogs, disrupts normal limb growth and can cause extra legs
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A drone swarm performing a choreographed light show in the night sky
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Polar bears feast on a whale
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Titan submersible by OceanGate
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The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, Tonopah, Nevada
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Power grid after an ice storm
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Close up bioluminescence Ghost mushroom
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Lightning inside of the eruption Krakatau Volcano
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China's manned deep-sea submersible Jiaolong