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The ninth and now tallest tower of the Sagrada Familia Basilica has finally been completed and crowned with the twelve-pointed star of the Virgin Mary, lit up right before Christmas.

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One of the photorealistic digital humans, rigged to be controlled and animated via the Unreal Engine. There are about 50 created MetaHumans ready to be downloaded and used.

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"Gunkanjima" (or "Battleship Island" because of its shape) is an abandoned island built by Mitsubishi corporation. Its sole purpose was to house 5000 residents there to work in its coal mine for 100 years.

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There is a phone booth called "the Wind Phone" on a hill overlooking the ocean in Otsuchi town, Japan. It's connected to nowhere but people use it to "call" loved ones lost to the 9.1 megaquake and tsunami of 2011.

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Military robot maker Ghost Robotics and its quadrupedal robot dog strapped with a sniper rifle

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Victorian couple trying not to laugh while having their picture taken in the 1890s

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During WW2, maps were printed on silk for convenience. After the war during a fabric shortage, they made clothes using all those silk maps.

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Mayon Volcano erupts as horses watch on from the Quitianan Lava Hills

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3,700-year-old ancient clay tablet containing applied geometry. A millennia before the birth of Pythagoras.

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Smallest injectable computer chip can be implanted via a hypodermic needle to measure internal body temperature

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This Loki variant vegetable

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Russian Tsar Alexander’s confusingly large bathtub

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The “Black Crack” along Utah’s White Rim Trail, a natural fissure in the rock a few feet wide and deep enough to kill you

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Japan’s “Road of Light” which happens when the autumn sun perfectly aligns with the road that connects Miyajidake Shrine straight out to the sea

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Tokyo’s subway tunnel clean floodwater so clear, it looks like a pool

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Killer wasp strangled by a plant

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The Japanese giant hornet is the world's largest and can sting you with a flesh-dissolving acid that acts as pheromone to signal other hornets to target you.

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Baloo, Leo, and Shere Khan, collectively known as "the BLT" (Bear, Lion, & Tiger) were rescued together back in 2001 from a drug dealer's basement, and have been together ever since.

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2,000 year old ancient portraits of Romans found in a necropolis in Egypt

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This floor in the cathedral of Malta's capital is made up of nearly 400 tombstones of the Knights of Jerusalem.

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