45 Fascinating Photos Showing Off Our Wonderful World
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“This 16th Century miniature religious boxwood carving. The tiny altarpieces, rosaries, and prayer beads are each produced from a single boxwood fragment, incorporating pins smaller than a grass seed that hold the pieces together.”
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“The first English edition of Edgar Allan Poe's complete works, 1875, found in Italy amidst a stock of books on offer at 20 euros.”
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“A rock recently discovered in Brazil could fetch more than $10,000 — because it bears an uncanny resemblance to “Sesame Street’s” Cookie Monster.”
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“Cistercian numbering system (used by medieval monks) makes it possible to write any number from 1-9999 using a single symbol.”
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“The Moss Carpet, a shower mat that lives off the water that falls on them after taking a shower.”
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“This is what the Velociraptors looked like during filming on Jurassic World before CGI was added.”
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“The only Japanese who survived the Titanic lost his job because he was known as a coward in Japan for not dying with the other passengers.”
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“This photo in 1916. English suffragette Florence Norman was given this Autoped as a birthday present by her husband, Sir Henry Norman. Florence's Autoped was one of the first examples of motorised kick scooters.”
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“Known as Raynaud’s Syndrome, the cold or stress cause blood vessels to spasm and temporarily restrict blood flow.”
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“If you visit CERN in Geneva, you can buy 1 Terabyte of Large Hadron Collider data from the souvenir shop.”
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“The entire set for Sean Connery's 'The Hunt for Red October' was build to move like a real submarine.”
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“Bridge between continents (Leif the Lucky's Bridge) | the bridge connects Europe and North America tectonic plates on Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland.”
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“You ever seen a King Cobra Nest before? They're the only snakes that build their own nests rather than find one, due impart to their exceptionally high intelligence.”
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