Fascinating photos stick with us long after we've exited our browsers or closed our phones, which is why the Twitter account @facs1nate has one million dedicated followers who scroll through to see a well-curated stream of mindblowing historical tales, weird nature, and cats making beds.
Maybe the key to Fascinating’s success, besides simply displaying stuff you’d never otherwise hear about, is their use of the internet rabbit hole. Most tweets won’t lead you anywhere except shitposts and arguing incels, but @facs1nate often links their best stories to long, captivating articles that give users the full scoop. The experiment of the internet has finally gotten to what we really want to know in depth: why a toddler is smoking a cigar, the story of the first Black Samurai and the reason cats are so intriguing yet weird.
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Mercedes F1 steering wheels from 1954 and 2014
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A crowd of climbers slog up the Lhotse Face, heading toward Camp IV, last stop before the summit. Loose regulations and a boom in commercial guiding over the past two decades have made Everest far more accessible to experts and novices alike.
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Traffic is not the only emerging problem on Mt Everest
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A soccer field in Brazil
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1000 years ago unknown Viking lost his chest while he traveled across the lake Mastermyr on the island of Gotland
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Samurai Helmet belonging to the Mitsudaina Family, c.1730
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The Grand Canyon from 35,000 feet
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Tesla stations in middle of desert AZ
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Where tectonic plates meet in Iceland
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's new ride
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The new cockpit interior of the Bloodhound SSC, the British rocket and jet-powered supersonic car. It will attempt to reach a speed of 1000mph in a South African desert
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Students taking an English exam in an exam hall at Dongguan University in China. English is one of three main areas of testing, along with math and Chinese
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Shanghai, China. The most populated city on the planet
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Muhammad Ali letting a young fan win a fight, 1963.
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A Look Inside The Surgical Kit Of War Surgeons Of The 19th Century
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A futuristic hybrid wing body during tests in the wind tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center. The patterns are formed by air movement over the fluorescent oil sprayed onto the wings
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A bull born without myostatin, this allows for unrestricted muscle growth
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Natty dressers known as "sapeurs" in Kinshasa, Congo
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Inside view of a WWI trench at Massiges, northeastern France, on March 28, 2014. During trench restoration works, in the last two years, the Main de Massiges Association has found seven bodies of WWI soldiers.
