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- The belt stars of Orion absolutely dwarf our Sun 🤔
- Czech climber Adam Ondra climbing El Capitán in Yosemite National Park.
- Discovered by researchers with the Census of Marine Life at a depth of 2,750 meters, this sea cucumber is so transparent that its digestive tract is on spectacular display.
- The Mauritanian iron ore train is one of the longest and heaviest trains in the world and the most unique and incredible railway journeys one can take.
The train is up to 3 km (1.8 miles) in length, travels on a single track of 704 kilometres (437 miles), with 200 – 300 freight carriages, weighing up to a total of 84 tons.
The sole purpose of the train is to export iron ore from the mining town of Zouerate to the Port of Nouadhibou via Choum in Mauritania, Northwest Africa.
But the state agency, Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière, allows locals and tourists to board the train and use it as a mean of transportation between inland of the country and the coastline.
One cannot expect any levels of comfort one would find on other passenger trains around the world, though. This train has no ticket, no conductor, no dining cart, or any sort of announcements.
It is not bound to any timetable and may leave earlier or later than the usual departure time. This also means the arrival time is not fixed to a certain time and a single trip can take from 11 to 15 hours under the sun, at an average temperature of 40°C.
- US vs. UK Fanta.
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- The true size of Africa
- In 1960, David Latimer planted a spiderwort sprout inside of a large glass jar, added a quarter pint of water, and then sealed it shut.
He opened the bottle for the first time only 12 years later, in 1972, to add some water and then sealed it for good.
The self-contained ecosystem flourished for more than 60 years as a perfectly balanced garden and self-sufficient ecosystem.
The bacteria in the compost ate the dead plants and broke down the oxygen released, turning it into carbon dioxide, essentially forming a microcosm of Earth.
- Fun fact: only 2% of the Australian population lives in the yellow area.
98% live in the white area.
- Derinkuyu is a 2500-year-old multi-level underground city in Turkey, extending to a depth of approximately 85 meters.
It is large enough to have sheltered as many as 20,000 people together with their livestock and food stores.
It is believed to have been built by the Phrygians, an ancient Indo-European people, around the VIII to VII centuries BCE. The city was later expanded by the Persians, Romans, and Christians, who used it as a refuge during times of war and persecution.
Derinkuyu is one of the largest and most well-preserved underground cities in the world, extending to a depth of approximately 85 meters (280 feet) and covering an area of around 4 km² (1.5 mi²).
The city consists of multiple levels connected by tunnels and stairways, with living quarters, stables, churches, and storage rooms.
The complex was designed with self-sufficiency in mind, featuring ventilation shafts, water wells, and an ingenious system of large round stone doors that could be rolled into place to seal off passageways and protect the inhabitants from invaders.
Derinkuyu was rediscovered in the XX century and has since become a popular tourist destination, attracting visitors from around the world who come to explore its mysterious and fascinating history.
- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune as seen by the James Webb Telescope.
- The shape of the wind comes from the grass waves of Poyang Lake, China.
Dry in the winter, during spring, the lake is covered with a thick layer of grass, which indicates rising groundwater.
- The Arabian sand boa looks like a child’s best effort at drawing a snake. But it's real.
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- Each section contains 10% of the world’s population.
- Comparing big cats
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- Vapor cone and condensation during an F-22 maneuver
- The platypus is possibly the weirdest animal: it's a mammal but lays eggs, it's duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed and venomous.
It has electroreceptors for locating prey, eyes with double cones, no stomach, and 10 chromosomes.
It's fluorescent and glows under UV light.
- One way glass bathroom transparent from inside
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- Photographer Tobias Messerli caught the right moment when the Sun disc set behind a tree with the same approximate relative size
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- A shark's egg with a fetus
- Rhino having a snack
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- Jaguars are excellent swimmers
- Hummingbird pool party
- Cherry blossom in the wind
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- Photographer Daniel Biber from Hilzingen, Germany was trying to capture the murmuration of starlings for 4 days when he finally succeeded.
He just didn't realize the starlings had created a giant bird in the sky until he got home and reviewed the pictures.
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- Water Canyon, AZ
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- Incredible kinetic art
- Firefighters saving people
True heroes..
- Soviet water polo player, Petre Mshvenieradze with his grandson in the 1990s.
He competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952, 1956, and 1960 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal in 1956 and a silver medal in 1960
- K2 is widely considered the planet's toughest and most dangerous mountain to climb.
The number of people who reached its summit (367) are less than the one who went in space (568).
This is the infamous Bottleneck, a couloir 400 m below the summit.
- Family portrait after World War I
Invisible Dad, Result of War by photographer Evaldas Ivanauskas (1926).
- Guaranà fruits.
The color of the fruit ranges from brown to red and it contains black seeds that are partly covered by white arils. The color contrast when the fruit is split open has been compared with the appearance of eyeballs, and has become the basis of an origin myth among the Sateré-Mawé people.
- Valeriya Gogunskaya is an internationally known longboard-dancer: it's all about flow and speed.
- Packaging loose tea without tape or glue
- Dance of the thousand hands
- Baby manatee reaches up to hug mummy