33 Fascinating Photos and Cool Things You Don't See Every Day

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"This photo of a penguin's coat of feathers:"

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"This newspaper announcing the polio vaccine in 1955:"

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"This photo of Niagara Falls frozen solid:"

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"This wild mutation of a crocodile's tail:"

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"This photo of Albert Einstein's desk, taken the day he died:"

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"This photo of heated floors before the surface is installed:"

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"This passage that shows the evolution of the English language:"

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"This photo showing the difference in shoes worn with a flesh leg and a prosthetic leg after a full year:"

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"This McDonald's stash that someone in Russia stockpiled in anticipation of all McDonald's stores in the country permanently closing:"

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"This artist's drawing progress between ages 15 and 25:"

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"The difference between $5,000 in gold and $5,000 in silver is very, very noticeable:"

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"This photo of Norma Jeane DiMaggio's (aka Marilyn Monroe) Pentagon ID card:"

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"Burger King that dressed up as a McDonald's for Halloween:"

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"Earth will be home to 8 billion people by the middle of November:"

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"This is what a dollar bill looked like in 1917:"

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"This right here is Vincent van Gogh's painting palette:"

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"This is what olive oil looks like after it's pressed from olives:"

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"This right here is a vaquita, one of the most endangered animals in the world:"

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"Marisa Tomei's name can do amazing things:"

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"The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is shrinking:"

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"The Mars rovers are way, way bigger than you thought they were:"

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"And this is what a 3-year-old Albert Einstein looked like:"

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"The barcode was apparently invented in North Carolina:"

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"McDonald's restaurants in France serve something called the McBaguette:" "It's basically two hamburger patties and all the classic toppings you'd expect on a baguette. What a world."

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"This is what a typhoon looks like from space:"

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"Pay phones still exist...and they take cards:"

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"This beauty is Britain's oldest door, constructed almost 1,000 years ago, in the 1050s:"

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"This is what the inside of a wasp's nest looks like:"

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"A lot of soda cans in Hawaii still have ridges at the top:"

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"After enough time, some gold crayons will turn green:"

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"The top of a UPS truck isn't the same color as the rest of the truck:"

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"This man won a costume competition in 1894 while dressed as a piece of bacon:"

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