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Worlds largest cemetery is located in Iraq. 5 million bodies and 1400 years old

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Fireworks during the daytime? Bad idea!

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Kathrine Switzer entered and completed the Boston Marathon in 1967, five years before women were officially allowed to compete in it. After realizing a woman was running, organizer Jock Semple tried to stop her. Some people provided a protective shield so she could complete it.

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The Northern Lights in realtime

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Making bee candies

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A perfect maneuver done with the right amount of skill and patience

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The Short Nosed Bear. Scientists speculate that these delayed human migration into N.A. because they kept picking us off in the Bering Strait.

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Match ignition at 4,000 frames per second.

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1200 C ball of tungsten burning through lead.

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Māori journalist becomes first person with facial markings to present primetime news

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Lina Medina holding her son, who she had at 5 years old and is considered the youngest mother in history. She is currently 88 years old, and outlived her son, who died at 40.

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Smallpox announcement from 1947

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This Australian mushroom is called "The Stonemaker Fungus" and only appears after a bushfire. These fungi live underground in a stone-like mycelium and sprout in the ashes 2-10 days after the fire, sometimes as rarely as every 100 years.

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A Viking era ring inscribed with the words 'for Allah', found in the grave of a woman who was buried 1200 years ago in Birka, 25 km west of modern-day Stockholm. The ring constitutes a unique material evidence of direct contact between the Vikings and the Abbasid Caliphate

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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

The same person, Han Junjia, 26 years apart, in china

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Lobster diver Michael Packard was swallowed by a whale in a terrifying encounter in June 2021. After diving into the ocean off Cape Cod, he felt a huge bump and everything went dark. Panicking, he feared a shark attack - but the truth was much worse.

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Colorful houses in Kiruna, Sweden.

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10,000 year old Skull and Antlers that belonged to an extinct Giant Irish Elk

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Coke+oil vs mentos

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Aurora Borealis, localized entirely within my bedroom

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This Australian Man is not allowed to leave Israel until 9999 unless he clear his debt!

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There's hidden hologram under the Star War vinyl record

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The same person, Han Junjia, 26 years apart, China.

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Mission impossible

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This is Balkan Lynx, one of the rarest cats in the world.They are found in Albania and North Macedonia

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Reflection of trees in a drop of water

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Geologic Map of South America - The American Geographical Society - 1950

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In 2010, Tokyo officials went to congratulate the oldest person in the city on his 111th birthday. They instead found his skeleton remains. He had been dead for 30 years and his family was enjoying his pension money that they were still receiving.

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This is American virologist Dr. Jonas Salk (1914-1995). In the 1950s, he decided not to patent his polio vaccine so that it would be affordable for millions of people. He lost out on roughly $7 billion but saved millions of lives.

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Uncut footage from 1958 of an underwater atomic blast.

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Queen Elizabeth II owns the largest clear cut diamond in the world. Known as 'The Great Star of Africa' the 530 carats gem was mined in South Africa back in 1905 and has an estimated worth of $400 million.

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This time capsule bedroom of a teen from the 2000s is like stepping into another Era.

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56% of Americans Think Violent Crime is Higher Now than in the 1990s...here is the Violent Crime Numbers Since 1990

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How a one-man camera is used

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Iceberg Flips Over

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A water damaged copy of “Alice in Wonderland” which grew fungi.

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Jeff Lee Johnson Painting. The longer you look the more you see.

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This man pulled 8 people out of a burning bus on the first day of Christmas.

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Demonstrating how fast a drone can be

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Ayam Cemani is a rare breed of chicken found in Indonesia with black bones and internal organs.

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The True Size of Australia

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Disinfection before the traveling

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I took this photo while my friend took a flash photo with a Polaroid and I think I caught an image of light traveling???

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Baby alligator practising a death roll

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Kevin-Helmholtz clouds by the beach earlier today.

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In 1914 during WWI, 100,000 British and German troops called a ceasefire; soldiers decorated their trenches and No- Man’s-Land, sang Christmas carols, and exchanged gifts, food, tobacco, alcohol and souvenirs in what became known as The Christmas Truce.

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Spongebob episode where the characters are the voice actors themselves

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87 Years Ago: German Christmas Market

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This is the cashmere goat, the goat from which cashmere is made. They take their name from their origin in the Himalayan region of Kashmir.

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