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In case you didn’t know, braces can do some incredible things:
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Chile is very, very long:
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English has changed a whole lot:
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Last week, a container ship ran aground and almost crashed into a random house in Norway:
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THIS is how close it came:
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Those black dots you see? They don’t exist. It’s an optical illusion:
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Here’s another optical illusion for you. This car is not floating:
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This is the cross-section of the 1,300 year-old Mark Twain sequoia tree, cut down in 1892 for display in New York:
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Here’s that same cross-section with some important dates in the tree’s life:
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And, for good measure, here’s what the stump of old Mark Twain looks like:
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Some pills are just filled with little circles:
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Here’s what those rings look like in an x-ray:
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This thing is a “road printer,” a machine that quite literally PRINTS roads:
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This, in all its glory, is the longest tapeworm ever recovered from a human:
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The Pacific Ocean is covers a HUGE portion of the Earth:
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Even the statue of Honest Abe at the Lincoln Memorial’s ears need to be cleaned now and then. Here’s what that looks like:
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Soap technology has come a long, long way:
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This is how much it cost to give birth at an Indiana hospital in 1956:
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On June 17, 1939, France held its last public execution via guillotine. Here’s what the “hysterical” scene looked like:
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Here’s what a cross-section of a pack of bacon looks like:
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This is what the bathroom from a nuclear missle launch site looks like:
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This is what the cross-section of a painter’s stir stick looks like after some heavy use:
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This is what the inside of a cooling tower looks like:
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This is what’s underneath the fire hydrants you see on the street:
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There’s rich… and then there’s VERY rich. These two houses show the difference:
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This is what sand looks like under a microscope:
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Finally, I leave you with this very important fact: