If your mind is wandering and you're looking for something to sink your teeth into, look no further than this fascinating collection of interesting photos. They're visually stimulating, and you might even learn a new fact or two.
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This is how big a baby kangaroo is when it's born. It then spends the next four months or so in its mother's pouch.
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Art installations by Phillip Katerine all over Quebec.
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This is a Choriaster granulatus specimen, commonly known as the granulated sea star.
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A U.S. Geological Survey scientist posed with a telephone pole in the San Joaquin Valley, California, indicating surface elevation in 1925, 1955 and 1977. The ground is sinking due to groundwater extraction.
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A waterfall in the wind in Iceland.
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A massive 2700-year-old, 18-ton statue of an Assyrian deity that was excavated in Iraq in November of 2023.
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Daisugi is an ancient Japanese forestry technique developed in the 14th century originally used by people living in the Kitayama region. They planted cedars pruned in a special way to produce shoots that eventually would become perfect, straight, knot-free lumbers. It allows for wood harvesting, without cutting down trees.
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Long exposure shot of rare daytime solar halo.
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Lake Kariba Dam, built across two countries, Zambia and Zimbabwe, holds back the largest artificial lake in the world.
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The tomb of Marie Curie, located in the Pantheon in Paris, is encased with three centimeters of lead to shield visitors from radiation, as her remains continue to emit radioactive particles.
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Forest fires in Portugal seen from space.
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A bottle of meat preserved from the Kentucky meat shower, an incident that happened for several minutes between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. on March 3, 1876, where chunks of red meat fell from the sky in a 100-by-50-yard area.
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Sudan actually holds the record for having the most pyramids in the world. They're not as well known as Egyptian pyramids because they are significantly smaller.
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On the outside, Hogeweyk looks like a normal Dutch village. It's actually a gated community for dementia patients, with individual houses and infrastructure, like grocery shops. The nurses are either "neighbors" or "workers" at the various facilities.
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In 2021, over 40 camels were disqualified from a Saudi camel beauty contest for receiving Botox injections and other artificial enhancements. They were examined by "Camel beauty specialists."
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The craftsmanship inside of the 1100 years old Sahastrabahu Temple in Rajasthan, India.
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Old Bulgarian Coca-Cola bottle with Coca-Cola written in Cyrillic.
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The world's tallest known natural arch in far western China, spanning higher than the Empire State Building. It is so well hidden, the arch was only rediscovered a little over 20 years ago on a National Geographic expedition.
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Jupiter, Io, Europa, and Callisto in daylight this morning through my telescope.
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In 1976, F1 driver Niki Lauda was involved in an almost fatal crash, in which he suffered severe burns to his head and hands and inhaled toxic gasses that damaged his lungs and blood. While in hospital, he was also given the last rites. He only missed two races and finished 4th in his first race back.
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Low water levels reveal sunken German WWII ships full of unexploded munitions in the Danube river. Due to a drought in Eastern Europe, the scuttled German vessels are reemerging 80 years after they disappeared beneath the river’s surface.
