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32 Interesting Images From All Over our Amazing World

Ever since the invention of the very first camera in 1816  by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in Le Gras in France, people have been taking photos of any and everything.  Thanks to both print and digital archives, there is an unlimited supply of photos people can see and share.


In this collection of photos, we focus more on the unique, interesting, and odd things that can be seen on the planet we call home.  So take a few moments and browse through this collection of photos that will pique your interest and hopefully with the information provided, satisfy your curiosity.

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An albino cucumber that was found in a garden.

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This is what a neanderthal looks like with contemporary clothing and hair:

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4. The Eiffel Tower receives a fresh coat of paint every seven years — here's a worker putting some fresh paint on the tower in 1924:

5. And here's another man painting the tower in a very, very safe manner:

6. One dollar bills did not have "In God We Trust" on them until 1957:In a similar vein, "under God" was not in the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954.

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This is what an unfinished escalator looks like:

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This is how big a DOUBLE king sized bed is:

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White bell peppers exist:

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A dragonfly emerging from its chrysalis.

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This is what a desert oasis looks like:

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This is what the inside of the ancient Egyptian Djedhoriwefankh's intricately painted coffin looks like:

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Saturn as seen during the day.

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This right here is the smallest window in the world, located in Toledo, Spain:

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And, finally, it's possible to stack six pinecones on top of each other:

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This is a BelAZ dump truck, the biggest dump truck in the world:

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And this is what a person looks like compared to the wheel of the BelAZ dump truck:

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Before the invention of RADAR, soldiers used big old Looney Toons-looking contraptions to listen for enemy planes:

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The amount of scaffolding on this cathedral

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Here's another example:

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This is Mary Katherine Campbell, the winner of the 1923 Miss America contest:

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Last month shattered the record for simultaneous flights in the sky, with an astonishing 22,000 planes and five million passengers taking to the air. Here's what that looked like:

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Trees came down on high voltage power lines near me, and they melted the road.

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A beluga whale's head is mostly made of fatty tissue...

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This, my friends, is what a pregnant guinea pig looks like:

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This is what a cactus that's been cut in half looks like:

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This is what the fuel tank that stores all the gasoline beneath the pumps at a gas station looks like:

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30 year old Addams Family Pinball Machine during restoration.

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This is what a baby snapping turtle looks like:

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This is what a bottle of Pepto looked like in the 1950s:

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The Atlanta Airport’s fire department has a twisty slide in their firehouse.

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A cheese vending machine.

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This tree grew through a fence at one point.

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This sweet potato that looks like a human heart.

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This is what $17.5 million stashed away beneath a bed looks like:

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This is what the eye of a hurricane looks like from above:

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This is how big a human is compared to a wind turbine:

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38. And this is how big a tornado is compared to a wind turbine:

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For its 50th anniversary, over 300,000 people walked across the Golden Gate Bridge:

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Here's another angle of the very packed celebration:

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There are four miles of tunnels 72 feet underneath Tokyo designed to prevent the city from flooding. The whole system is absolutely huge:

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This is what the remains of a World War I trench looks like today:

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This is the dish rag that Robert E. Lee used to surrender the Confederate army to the Union during the Civil War:

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This is what the inside of a cremation chamber looks like inside a crematorium:

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Deers shed their antlers every year. This is what an antler-less deer looks like:

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This monstrosity is the Russian Tsar Tank, designed for combat in World War I:

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This is what Stephen Hawking's grave looks like:It reads "Here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking."

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This is how much dirtier the ceiling in a smoking area of an airport is compared to the rest of the airport:

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A pair of sandals found in the pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb.

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Some salesmen used rocket skates to travel door to door faster in the 1950s:

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A Fibonacci spiral on a cauliflower.

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Finally, and most importantly, there are some breeds of horses that have mustaches:

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This goth version of a sunflower.

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This is how big the engines of the Space Shuttle Discovery are compared to a person:

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