30 Fascinating Photos From Our Amazing World
Nathan Johnson
Published
12/03/2022
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The world has no shortage of odd, interesting, cool, and just plain fascinating things. Take a moment to go on a little virtual field trip from the comfort of your home and enjoy these interesting images and the information that goes with them.
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The world has no shortage of odd, interesting, cool, and just plain fascinating things. Take a moment to go on a little virtual field trip from the comfort of your home and enjoy these interesting images and the information that goes with them. -
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The All Star Team of Scamming -
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And, finally, there's an ancient Egyptian statue at the Field Museum in Chicago that looks just like Michael Jackson: -
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Surveillance in China -
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This is the Barringer crater, an enormous crater created in Arizona by a meteor 50,000 years ago: -
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In 2011, Peter Glazebrook grew the world's largest onion, which weighed in at 18 pounds: -
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Liu Bolin – The Invisible Man -
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"Iranian couple kisses under the “si-o-se” historical bridge in iran. what they’re doing would land them in prison for up to 14 years" -
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"Concrete truck got stuck at an Amish job site" -
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Reese Witherspoon and her daughter -
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This is Big Jake, the world's tallest horse: -
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And this is the world's tallest statue, the Statue of Unity: It's located in India and is 600 feet high. -
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This is a list showing what every performer at Woodstock got paid in 1969. -
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And here's my man again in 2015 at the World's Heaviest Marrow competition with his 115-pound big boy: -
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This is a close-up of some well-worn pebbles on the surface of Mars: -
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A chair for an XXL sized rear end. -
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This is Samantha Ramsdell, the woman with the world's largest mouth gape: It measures 2.56 inches in width. -
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This is how big Greenland actually is compared with how big it appears on most maps: -
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Before CGI, this is how MGM filmed its iconic movie intro: -
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Police confiscated these weapons from Brazilian gangs -
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This right here is what one of the Titanic's lifeboats looked like before the passengers were rescued: -
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This is how big Plymouth Rock is in real life: -
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There's a movie theater in Switzerland that lets you rent out beds to watch a movie in: -
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In 1964, Randy Gardner, pictured here, set the world record for the longest time without sleeping after staying awake 264 hours:Those items next to him are objects he would identify throughout the experiment to show he was still lucid. -
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This is what 1,500 Jenga pieces balancing on one single piece look like: -
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This is what a 100-sided die looks like: -
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In the early 1950s, the A.C. Gilbert Co. sold a children's toy called the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab. It contained actual radioactive material, encouraging children to create their own nuclear reactions. It was quickly taken off the shelves: -
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This year, the Pabst Brewing Co. sold an 1,844-can pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon to commemorate the beer's founding in 1844: -
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The smallest active-duty vessel (mini tug) of the United States Navy
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