18 Fascinating Photos From Our Amazing World

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How the atomic mushroom clouds are actually bigger than they look

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Dorsa Derakhshani won three gold medals at the Asian Youth Chess Championships, in 2012 (in the Girls U14 division), 2013, and 2014 (in the Girls U16). She played for the Iranian team in the women's division of the Asian Nations Cup in 2012 and 2014. Derakhshani was banned from the Iranian team for not wearing a hijab and would later join the US Chess team.

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What happens when you use water instead of oil in your engine

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Special effects in the 60’s

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Daft Punk without helmets performing at a French nightclub L’An-Fer in 1996

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Son Doong Cave in Vietnam, the world’s largest cave

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The gear of a WWII paratrooper in the 101st airborne

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Tracy Caldwell Dyson viewing Earth from the ISS Cupola, 2010

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A view from inside bay three of the Vehicle Assembly Building shows the Space Shuttle Discovery as it makes a nighttime departure from the VAB on its way to Pad 39B, July 4, 1988.

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Carriage of Pope Clement XI, 18th century.

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Soviet Micro-District. 18,000 People Live Here

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This house with 2 bathrooms and no useable bedrooms on a 2158sf lot just sold for $1.97M in SF

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US Navy swimming near USS Mesa Verde

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University classroom vs same university’s football locker room

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Flood wall in Austria holding back water

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In 1731 King Frederick I of Sweden sent a taxidermist to his favorite lion that had died and this is what he received back. To this day, his lion is on display at the Gripsholm Castle

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Visual representation of the actual amount of copper extracted from a minesite

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In 2009, a spoof soap opera was filmed in IKEA without the store’s knowledge. For a year, the cast and crew filmed scenes in different areas of an IKEA store. The result was a seven- episode series called IKEA Heights.