28 Amazing Photos From Our Fascinating World

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Some of the Titanic's deck chairs were salvaged from the wreck. Here's what one of them looks like:

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This is how many barrels of wine the French army supplied for its troops for the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I:

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Speaking of big, giant things, this is the Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying creature to have ever existed:

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Here's another picture of Schmitt walking on the moon:

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This photo from a Seattle lumberyard in 1919 show just how high stacks of lumber could go in those days:

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This behemoth is the world's largest telescope, the FAST telescope located in China:

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This is what the "back" of the Hoover Dam looked like prior to being flooded with water:

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And this is what that same side looks like today:

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A fruit named Hala looks like an exploding planet and tastes like sugarcane.

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“Me and my bf have the same mole on opposite hands.”

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Conjoined cherry tomatoes.

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“This moth in my garden.”

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This paint was never factory mixed, and now we can see all the colors it needs to be created.

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A perfect bridge that looks like a red romantic moon thanks to the reflection

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This picture of a hairless chimpanzee really demonstrates just how absolutely yoked chimps are:

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This is what the passenger cabin on a Pan Am flight in the 1940s looked like:

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This is how big a human hand is compared with a polar bear's footprint:

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This silicon sphere is the roundest object in the world:It was created to "redefine the kilogram in terms of the Planck constant." In addition, if this sphere was enlarged to be the same size as Earth, the highest point and the deepest point would be just 10 feet apart.

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Koalas have fingerprints that are extremely similar to human fingerprints:

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This is what the Panama Canal looked like while it was under construction:

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This right here, ladies and gentlemen, is the world's oldest cat door:

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This isn't photoshop — it's the Sendai Daikannon, the fifth-tallest statue in the world:

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This is Harrison Schmitt, one of four living men to have set foot on the moon's surface, and the one who did it most recently:

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This is Wendy Thomas, the daughter of Wendy's founder Dave Thomas and the namesake of the restaurant:

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This is a statue of Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead, that was found inside the pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb:

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And here's what the statue looks like today:

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In 2010, 30 intact champagne bottles were found inside a ship that had sunk in the Baltic Sea more than two centuries before, around 1780:

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This is what the Taco Bell menu looked like in the early 1980s:

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The snow that gracefully slips off the car like a blanket

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A rock tower balanced on little rocks that creates the illusion of a stairway

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Got a gold quarter in my roll of quarters.

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This is a model of a Gigantopithecus, the largest ape to ever live:It weighed over 1,000 pounds and stood 10 feet high.

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The now abandoned Silverdome in Detroit is slowly being reclaimed by nature.

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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault also known as the “Doomsday Vault”, is a place in Norway where all of the world’s seeds are kept safe in case of a global catastrophe.

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This is how many wildfires there are burning in the United States and Canada right now:

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30 years of license plate registration renewal stickers.

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Saw these cool RGB Light-Saber styled Chopsticks.

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A ring-sized portable chessboard with pieces.

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The world's hardest puzzle a.k.a. a clear one.

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This dapper horse has a full grown moustache.

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It's sad that we need a sign like this.