51 Fascinating Photos and Intriguing Images From Around the World
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The Mars Curiosity rover is drilling a ton of holes on Mars. Here's what 36 of them look like:
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"Ruja Ignatova took 4 billion dollars over a period of 16 months in a ponzi scam using her company OneCoin. She is on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list and has arrest warrants from Europol and Interpol. FBI Reward is $100,000 for information leading to her capture"
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“My puppy has 2 different colored eyes, blue and brown. When I take a picture with the flash, they glow in 2 different colors.”
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“I was at the beach and found a shell with barnacles on it that make it look like an anatomically correct heart.”
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"A heavily battle-scarred Great White Shark that was spotted near the Neptune Islands, South Australia, 2022."
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"In Japan, they put a barcode in the meat package that darkens when the meat spoils, reacting to ammonia. When it darkens, the barcode is unreadable."
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"The true list of KFC’s “11 herbs and spices,” leaked by Colonel Sanders’ own nephew in 2016. The list was jotted down on the back of the will for Claudia Sanders, the late wife of the Colonel. Colonel Sanders himself once claimed that the ingredients “stand on everybody’s shelf”."
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"Toyota 2000GT – Production 1967–1970 (351 produced), have sold at auction for as much as US$1,200,000. ($580,000 Avg. Value)"
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This photo is one of only two photos in existence of the US Supreme Court in session:The court has never allowed cameras. In 1937, photographer Erich Salomon pretended that his arm was broken and put the camera inside a sling he wore into the court and snapped this pic.
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You're probably familiar with the "Face on Mars," an image of a formation on Mars from the 1970s that launched a million conspiracy theories...
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Well, this is what a much less blurry, much more recent photograph of that same "face" looks like:
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This isn't a circle — it's a 1 million–sided polygon called a megagon:According to Naked Geometry, "even if drawn at the size of the Earth, a regular megagon would be very difficult to distinguish from a circle."
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This is Herman the Cat, a cat who was given the title of expert mouser aboard a US Coast Guard ship during World War II:
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This is what a stack of $1,000 worth of uncirculated $1 bills looks like next to a stack of $1,000 worth of used $1 bills:
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This is what a store-bought egg looks like compared with an egg bought at a farmers market:
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This is the heaviest building in the world, the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania:
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