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The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic games in Moscow, 1980

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The 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics

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Body part-shaped hot water/oil bottles found at the Asklepieion of Nea Paphos, Cyprus.

Dated to the Roman era and exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Paphos.

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Moyenne Island: The world's smallest national park

In 1962, an Englishman named Brendon Grimshaw bought a lone island in the Seychelles and settled there for the rest of his life. He planted over 16,000 trees, attracting countless species, and made it a national park.

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Native to the coast of South Africa, Black Rain Frogs are known for their perpetual grimace.

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I need to visit #Switzerland

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Ndakasi was born in 2007 and was orphaned as a baby when her mother was killed by a militia. Too vulnerable to return to the wild, Ndakasi lived in a center with other orphan gorillas, where she formed a special relationship with her caregiver, until her untimely passing in 2021.

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From the ocean to the mountains in Southern California

📷: brozaphoto on IG

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@curiosityonx Newton! Can you imagine a world without gravity? Stuff just flying everywhere!

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An iceberg that flipped over in Antarctica.

Blue icebergs develop from older, deep glaciers which have undergone tremendous pressure for hundreds of years. When long wavelength light hits the iceberg, it is absorbed. The light transmitted through the ice returns as blue.

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In 2023, Punjab Police in India arrested a couple accused of a robbery of Rs 8.49 crore (~ $1 million) by luring them with a free juice box worth Rs 10 ( ~ $0.12).

Read more: https://t.co/sSRP7kWdcz

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@engineers_feed Wikipedia and X

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The largest aircraft in the world was the Antonov An-225.

The 6-engine 84-metre-long aircraft, known as “Mriya”, with its 32-wheel landing gear, first took to the skies in 1988.

It was destroyed in an attack on its base at Hostomel/Gostomel airport in Ukraine on Feb. 27, 2022.

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A notorious city centre junction in Brighton, which sees "at least one accident per week" has led to residents calling on the council to remove a bike lane at the centre of it.

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When Paul McCartney married Linda in 1969, he also adopted her daughter Heather. Here's Heather and Ringo playing drums together

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A frightened Marcy Borders, aged 28, covered in dust as she takes refuge after one of the towers collapsed on 9/11.

She passed away because of stomach cancer at the age of 42. Her massive healthcare bills had left her penniless. Terrible.

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On September 11, 2001, as four planes were overtaken by terrorists, Ben Sliney, the FAA's National Operations Manager on duty, made the unprecedented call to ground every commercial flight in the US.

It was his first day on job.

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1200 meter-long grass slides at the Hulunbuir Prairie in north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

It’s like they’re sliding through a Ghibli movie, don't you think?

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A Michigan police officer who thought he was pulling over a reckless driver, ended up saving the life of an 18-month-old baby who was choking

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Traditional Washing Machines (Vâltori) in Maramures Villages in Romania

Running water from a river is used to wash clothes. No one knows for sure when people first captured the water stream with conically placed wooden boards. Chances are it was hundreds of years ago.