No, your eyes don’t deceive you! These 22 photos are rare as heck — so much so, in fact, that the average person likely won’t ever see these things IRL. So sit back, relax, and enjoy these 22 fascinating, FOMO-cleansing photos from across the web:
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This shot, which I’ll let OP describe: “My uncle lit a firework which failed to launch but didn’t fail to detonate.”
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This person with a genetic condition called Alport Syndrome, whose eyes have been gradually losing color:
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This photo of Galileo’s middle finger, which has been preserved since 1737 and is on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy:
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This lava formation around the West Kamokuna Skylight in Hawaii that looks quite literally like a portal to hell, complete with the souls of the damned being dragged down into it:
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This delicious-looking ice cream photo that was perfectly timed to catch the very first melty drop:
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This ocean “fog” that’s actually an underwater lake (AKA a brine pool), which looks like that because the water in the “lake” is saltier and denser than the water around it:
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This photo from someone who got up close and personal with a washed-up Lion’s Mane Jellyfish — aka one of the largest jellyfish species that we know of — off the Coast of Ireland:
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This ballot from the 1938 referendum in Nazi Germany, which had a massive “yes” circle and a much smaller “no” circle” to cast a vote in:
Here’s that same ballot after being run through Google Translate, also:
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This camera-less iPhone that’s issued to people who work on nuclear plants (as no cameras are allowed):
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This photo a mother took of her son’s hair, which is naturally half-curly and half-straight (which, TBH, I never really considered was something that could happen):
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This photo snapped by someone who accidentally stabbed their fingernail with a needle, resulting in it growing like this:
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This person who snapped a photo of the moment their lightbulb — unscrewed and unattached — was completely lit up:
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This shot of the entrance to Furnitureland South — a furniture store in High Point, North Carolina I only learned about five minutes ago and cannot stop thinking about now:
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This shot of the inside of a telephone cable, which I bet you’ve never seen before (because I sure as heck haven’t):
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This washed-up angler fish, which usually lives deep in the ocean…like, 8,000+ feet deep:
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This un-edited photo of an orange gas cloud in the sky, which — according to the BBC — was a result of an “accident” at a nearby industrial plant.
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This photo a wife got of a bug landing on her husband and deciding his tee was the perfect spot to lay her eggs:
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This photo of a proud-looking Cassowary (a flightless bird native to Australia, New Guinea, and the Moluccas) and it’s vibrant green eggs:
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This extra extra EXTRA long faucet coming from the ceiling, which is admittedly less exciting than some of the other photos in here, but damn, I bet you’ve never seen one of these in the flesh, huh?
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This photo of the lone row home — abandoned by its counterparts, which were likely bought out by developers — that remains:
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And finally, this photo that was unintentionally taken at juuuust the right time to make the fire look like a person: