21 Fascinating Pictures From Our Fascinating World

A fine collection of a little bit of anything and everything the world has to offer.

Published 5 years ago in Ftw

A fine collection of a little bit of anything and everything the world has to offer.

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A VPN provider, takes out a full page ad in The New York Time calling out 50 senators

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In 1731 king Frederick I of Sweden set a taxidermist to work on his recently deceased lion. The problem – the taxidermist had never seen a lion before. Frederick I of Sweden received a lion as a gift from the Bey of Algiers, and was so enamored with the beast that when it died he tried to have the beast taxidermied. The only trouble was that for whatever reason, the taxidermist was only given the pelt and the bones of the beast to work from. The story goes that the poor taxidermist, lacking the modern conveniences of Wikipedia and Google image search just didn’t have the find understanding of large feline bone structure to put together a convincing facsimile.

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In Brazil a woman threatened to commit suicide so the bus drivers did this to prevent her

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A copy of the Mona Lisa painted along side Da Vinci by his apprentice. Unlike the original, however, the paint was preserved showing what the famous painting would have looked like in 1517