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The centennial light bulb, a light bulb at a Fire station in California. It’s the oldest (1901), still working incandescent light bulb in the world.

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This isn't an oil painting. It's an aerial photo taken of the Bahama Banks.

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Park Avenue in New York City around a year ago today

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The making of this tea table shows impressive woodworking skills and a beautiful finished product

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A hand-carved wooden sculpture, by artist Bruno Walpoth

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This is a cheese vending machine in Switzerland

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How different piano notes reverberate through a bowl of water.

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Creative piece of chalk art on a street

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Explaining sine, cosine and tangent with the unit circle

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Megalodon and Mastodon Teeth I found in a Single Dive on the Peace River in Central Florida

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Abandoned and flooded mine under the Ural Mountains

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Silverback Gorilla protecting and caring for a tiny primate (Tarsier) he found.

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A simple Ancient Egyptian mechanism of the tumbler lock

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A 2,000-year-old sapphire ring belonging to the Roman Emperor Caligula, depicting his wife Caesonia.

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Topology demonstration

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How to interpret a windsock

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Alienware's ultra-wide curved screen from 2008.

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A ring made of meteorite, dinosaur bone & gold

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This photo is made up of a bunch of different photos taken at the exact same spot

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This frozen windshield looks like a fantasy glacier scene

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If you didn’t know, Owls can sit cross-legged

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Rome’s Imperial Port-Now vs. Then

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Brain cells in a culture dish trying to form connections with each other.

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Cannabis is ITAF!! I created this focus stacked macro image of Trichomes and Pink Pistils. You can see the stigmas on the pistils. That’s some fine herb, folks.

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A generation of lost souls underwater art work by Jason Caries Taylor

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The Kindred spirits monument in Midleton, Ireland, commemorating the Choctaw donation during the potato famine in 1850s

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The elusive South Philippine Dwarf Kingfisher. As of March 11, 2020, this is the first time a fledgling has been caught on film.

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Mushroom oxidation

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I took a pictore of a water droplet.

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Filipino fisherman got stuck on a rock and he decided to bring it home as a good luck charm. And then he kept it under his bed for 10 years until one day his house burned down. Then he found out this "rock" was actually the biggest pearl ever found and is valued at $100.000.000.

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Rules of the Subreddit. If these are broken, your comment/post will be removed and you could be banned. You should read this before posting.

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Posts must be interesting as fuck (IAF)This is a purely subjective rule. Just because you find something IAF does not mean it belongs here. It's impossible to define what is IAF, but for a general idea browse the top posts of all time from this subreddit. It's easier to define what isn't IAF, here are most of the things that are NOT IAF.Things that aren't IAFmildly interesting things, kinda interesting things, interesting thingsSocial media screenshots, or screenshots in general.No unnecessary soundMemes, funny things, edgy contentThings that are purely cuteThings that are NSFWClick bait, "Top 10 best X"Just because something is old does not inherently make it IAF.Hold your phone a certain way to see an image, or shake your head to see an image, or light mod/dark mode picturesNote: Breaking this rule usually just means your post gets removed. (extreme violations, as in you have no idea what belongs here will get you perma banned)Titles Must be descriptiveTitl...

A candle holder which creates a warping geometric projection as it burns

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This dude accidently bought an coffee table shaped like an iPhone instead of an iPhone

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Hannah Stilley is the photographed person with the oldest date of birth. She was born in 1746, 23 years before Napoleon and 10 years before Mozart. This photo is from 1840, when she was 94 years old.

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Waning moon perfectly between a slot in Cathedral Gorge Canyon

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Archaeologist Spends Over 35 Years Building Enormous Scale Model of Ancient Rome

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Unusual portrait of a Victorian lady from 1840

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A modern photo compared with a photo taken over a century earlier in the same place

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Steampunk Darth Vader designed by Adi Granov

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This tiny lizard perfectly shedding looks like he's wearing a tiny lizard space suit

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Dragon automaton

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Impressive way to show what ancient ruins looked like in their day, in Austria.

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Using 3 primary colours to create a multi coloured image!

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“The largest mirror in the world”, the Salar de Uyuni in Potosí, Bolivia is the largest salt desert in the world and is over 10,000 square kilometres in area. Following rain, a thin layer of water transforms the flat desert into a 129 kilometer mirror, the largest on Earth.

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Ice crystals which grew vertically under a thin layer of soil following frost.

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An antelope photographed in Botswana with a spiderweb between its horns

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A 15th century painting depicting the skinning of corrupt royal judge Sisamnes from the time of Cambyses II in Persia. It was discovered that He accepted a bribe and delivered an unjust verdict. As a result, the king had him arrested and flayed alive.

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The Friesian Horse of Netherland

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3 shadows all cast off the same item. The shadows are cast off a collection of trash including Mcdonalds cups and tin cans.

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What the Statue of Liberty looked like at first

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