If you have never taken a few moments to look at the world around you, man have you been missing out. There is an endless supply of interesting and amazing things on this rock floating through space we call home. From the man-made structures and machines to the diverse life that Planet Earth is teeming with, there is always something new to discover in this incredible world around us.
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This is what it looks like 16 stories beneath New York City:Specifically, this is what it looked like in 2013 during construction of the East Side Access tunnel. The project was completed this year.
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A perfect shot of the moon behind the Arc de Triomphe:
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This was the menu aboard the Titanic days before it sank:
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There's a bridge specifically for crabs in Christmas Island, Australia. A crab bridge. A cridge:Millions of these crabs migrate every year, and this bridge keeps 'em safe.
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Some towns have specific areas designated for online marketplace meetups:
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This 2,000-year-old Roman shoe looks like it could've been made today:
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And this is what the bottom of that shoe just might look like:
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This is how big the Hubble Space Telescope is compared with a few human beings:This was taken in 1989, when the telescope was being prepared to be shot into space.
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This, my friends, is what a perfectly spherical egg looks like:
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The "American section" of a German grocery store contains a lot of popcorn, hot sauce, and mustard:
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This is what a knife looks like after being sharpened over and over again for 30 years:
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This is Ahmet Ali Çelikten, a man who is generally considered to be one of the first Black pilots — and perhaps the very first:He first flew for the Ottoman Empire in World War I. His contemporaries included Eugene Bullard, the first Black military pilot from the United States.
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Horn sharks have very cool spiral egg cases:
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This is Norma Smallwood, the winner of the 1926 Miss America pageant:
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This is what stem cells look like after they've been collected and are ready to be transplanted:
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This is a Javan rhino, an extremely endangered species of rhino of which there are only about 76 left on Earth:In actual good news, 10 years ago, there were only 50 Javan rhinos.
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There's a huge crater on Mars that's filled with ice:It's named Korolev crater, and it's about 50 miles across and one mile thick.
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This is what velcro looks like under an electron microscope:
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This is what a deconstructed escalator looks like:
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There's a bird that looks like it has a bowl cut. My friends, meet the crested canary:
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This is what a Hoover Dam spillway tunnel looks like. Check out the tiny, tiny walkway on top:The spillways are there to make sure water doesn't go over the dam. The tunnel is 50 feet wide and 600 feet long and totally not the stuff of nightmares.
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This is what a gorilla going to the dentist looks like:This is a silverback gorilla named Motaba getting checked for infection.
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Gorillas... they're just like us!
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Saturn has a moon named Mimas that looks pretty much exactly like the Death Star:
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...but that's just a coincidence. Mimas was first seen up close and clear three years after Star Wars came out:
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A cardinal with no feathers on its head is absolutely terrifying:
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This is a pepperbox pistol, a type of firearm that could have as many as 24 barrels:
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Stink bug eggs have little smiley faces on them:
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Some Chinese soldiers have pins attached to their collars in order to correct posture during exercises:
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This lovable lump is a sea hare, a species of gigantic slugs found on the California coast:
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This is what a suit of elephant armor looked like:This particular set dates back to 16th-century India.
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And this is Pelorus Jack, a dolphin that spent two decades helping to guide ships through the "treacherous" French Pass in New Zealand:
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Amazing detail on this sand sculpture:
