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Nellie Bly went undercover as a patient in an insane asylum in order to expose abuses there in 1887. The following year, another assignment saw her turn the novel Around the World in Eighty Days into reality when she traveled around the globe herself — in just 72 days.

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This street in Molyvos, Lesbos, Greece.

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Lewis Latimer, a son of slaves, helped Alexander Graham Bell patent the first telephone, he also patented a carbon filament for the incandescent light bulb in 1881. Thomas Edison, up until Lewis came around, couldn't get a bulb to light for more then a few minutes.

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Sam Bates, aka Smug, is an Australian street artist in Glasgow. Here's one of his pieces on High Street. It depicts St. Mungo in modern-day clothes, he was a missionary in the Scottish Kingdom of Strathclyde in the late sixth century, and the founder and patron saint of the city of Glasgow.

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A group of divers near the Caribbean island of Dominica were engulfed in sperm whale poop, and we're able to document the ordeal. The whale just started blasting an ungodly amount of shit into the ocean while spinning in circles around them causing what one of the divers called a "poonado."

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After visiting every gallery within a 200 mile radius and receiving “no” from all of them, a man known as My Dog Sighs lost sight of his dream. Banksy‘s stencilled Rat inspired him to try again, with a different approach. He's now one of the most respected street artists in the UK.

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Zaretis Itys is a superb mimic of dead and dried out leaves. It even mimics bite marks from bugs!

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In captivity, ravens can learn to talk better than some parrots. They also mimic other noises, like car engines, toilets flushing, other animals and birdcalls. Ravens have been known to imitate wolves or foxes to attract them to carcasses that the raven isn't capable of breaking open.

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When they're alive, Snapdragons make beautiful flowers. But when the seed pods die, something peculiar happens… the dead flower heads resemble miniature human skulls. And if squeezed between the fingertips, the skull will open and close its mouth.

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Cambodian artist Visoth Kakvei is probably the best doodler in the world.

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Octopus carved from fallen redwood by Jeffrey Michael Samudosky

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This wrecked car decorated with mirrors

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Swiss company SolarImpact has come up with a solar-powered yacht with the ability to cruise the entire globe without needing to stop and refuel. the 78-foot electric boat features a giant solar array, which covers the boats top, generating up to 320 kWh on a sunny day

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Award-winning special effects makeup artist Rick Baker's a 3D printed sculpture of an aged Popeye the Sailor Man

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In 1850, a Farmer Found a Secret Village Older Than The Great Pyramids of Egypt, Skara Brae aka the “Scottish Pompeii” Archaeologists estimate that 50-100 people lived in the village. The houses were connected to each other by tunnels. Each house could be closed off with a stone door.

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Golden Gate Bridge, Opening Day - May 27th 1937

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The tallest man in recorded history, Robert Wadlow's growth chart is insane

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"Spud" Webb (5'7”) -Shortest player in the history of professional basketball to win the NBA slam dunk contest.

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Obsidian blades are five hundred times sharper than the sharpest steel blade.

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Special edition BMW X6 that's been painted the world's blackest black known as Vantablack.

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