Sometimes the itch of curiosity is too strong to leave unresolved, and this collection of interesting and informative photos is here to do the scratching.
Check out some awesome visuals from the depths of the ocean to the unknowns of outer space, and hopefully, you'll learn a thing or two along the way.
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Jupiter’s moons Io and Europa Passing in Front of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Taken by the Cassini probe.
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Storstrøm Prison in Denmark.
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The flak tower in Augarten, Vienna. It is one of a pair of towers that worked together, one as a gun platform to fire on enemy aircraft, and one as a fire control tower to direct that fire. The one in this image is a fire control bunker.
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Doctors in Switzerland have successfully operated on a pig in Hong Kong using a video game controller.
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The original interface of "The Landlord's Game," patented by Elizabeth Maggie in 1904, almost 30 years before "Monopoly" would be published by the Parker Brothers.
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Chinese hypercar, The Yangwang U9, can jump, momentarily lifting all four wheels off the ground.
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Rare sighting of a glass octopus.
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Optical illusion from some spilled sodium bicarbonate on the stove.
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The first picture of a human being taken in Paris in 1838.
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BikeBus for Kids going to school in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
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The difference in portion sizes in the U.K. vs USA.
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New York City, 30 Rock, Rockefeller Center at night, 1933.
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A "rescue lane" for emergency services following a crash on the highway in Slovenia.
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A graffito carved in the Tower of London by Hew Draper, an innkeeper charged with witchcraft and imprisoned in the Tower in 1560. He pled not guilty.
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The world's first diving suit.
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Snake drinking a man’s water.
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An elderly Romanian woman used an amber nugget worth over $1 million as a doorstop for decades.
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Philion’s cup, one of the oldest known examples of the Greek alphabet. 8th century BC.
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A tree that got struck by lightning and burned, but is still alive on the inside.
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Neelakurinji flowers. These flowers grow once every 12 years, and can be seen in Kerala, India.
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The chainsaw was invented to cut through the pelvises of delivering mothers who were having trouble pushing their babies out. It was called a symphysiotomy, and it was largely done without anesthesia. Mothers were completely conscious through the entire process.
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Recent photos of the rarely seen Bathyphysa siphonophore, also known as the flying spaghetti monster.
