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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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.