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.
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:
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 the inside of the ancient Egyptian Djedhoriwefankh's intricately painted coffin looks like:
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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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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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This is what the fuel tank that stores all the gasoline beneath the pumps at a gas station looks like:
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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 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 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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