30 Interesting Things From All Around the World
Keeping your eyes open to the world around you is pretty important, because there's a lot of cool s**t out there that you might otherwise miss out on. Lucky for you, we made this gallery so you can see some of it in one convenient location. There are cool natural phenomena, intriguing inventions, and historical oddities to amuse and delight.
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“Entomologists track down a murder hornet nest in Washington state by attaching small radio trackers to them using dental floss and glue.”
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“Photographer Alan McFayden captured this picture of a flawless kingfisher dive in 2015, after 6 years and 720,000 attempts.”
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“Stockholm’s metro bills itself as “the world’s longest art exhibition”—and it's easy to see why. Since construction began in 1950, some 250 artists have decorated 94 stations across 68 miles of track.”
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“What 5 megabytes of computer data looked like in 1966: 62,500 punched cards, taking four days to load.”
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“Qasr al-Farid (The Lonely Castle), an incomplete solitary tomb made by the Nabataeans located at Madain Salih, Saudi Arabia. It is unknown who this tomb was being made for before it was abandoned.”
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