This Online Group Collects Only The Most Interesting Pics Ever And Here’s 119 Of The Best Ones
What do nearly 7 million people and some of the coolest, most spectacular things on the internet have in common? The ‘Interesting As F***’ subreddit! A massive community with some of the best content on Reddit, this subreddit will make your jaw drop with their posts. And you’re bound to feel like your IQ, imagination, and creativity are improving by the minute. Personally, these posts make me feel like the world’s far more magical.
We’ve collected some of their most eye-popping and entrancing posts for you to enjoy, dear Pandas, so scroll on down and feast your eyes and your minds. Remember to upvote your fave pics! We’d also love to hear from you which pics surprised you the most. And if you have any ‘interesting as fudge’ facts to share as well, our comment section is always open to you! Oh, and read on for Bored Panda's interview with MaxLemon, one of the subreddit's moderators, who told us all about how they manage an online community of such size.
#1 102-Year-Old Beatrice Lumpkin Put On A Face Shield And Gloves And Took Her Ballot To The Mailbox Today. When She Was Born, Women Couldn't Vote.
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#2 This Is How Big Kiwis Are
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#3 Mosaics Of A Roman Villa Were Found Under A Vineyard In Negrar, Italy
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Moderator MaxLemon told Bored Panda that even though the subreddit gets lots of content, it's not so terribly expansive that moderating is impossible.
"Essentially, we utilize the AutoModerator function to highlight key words and phrases as well as post types. Then we hand review those highlights and either approve or remove said postings. AutoModerator only highlights about 5-10% of the posts in a queue of 100 per page, however, and so the majority of the work is going through manual reports and making a judgement call on whether or not something follows our community guidelines."
According to MaxLemon, sometimes the moderating tasks are pretty easy. "Like if there's a poorly written title, if there's text on an image, or if it's obviously spam. In other cases, you have to act like a detective and build a picture of why something got reported or if the user who is being reported is genuine," they explained that the moderators' job can get pretty hectic at times.
#4 The “Serve And Protect” Sculpture, Salt Lake City’s Public Safety Building, During Today's Protest, A Demonstration Of How Art’s Meaning Can Change Completely With Context
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#5 This Tiny Lizard Perfectly Shedding Looks Like He's Wearing A Tiny Lizard Space Suit
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#6 Hanako, A Koi Fish Who Died At The Age Of 226. In 1966, Two Of Her Scales Were Removed And Extensively Studied To Determine Her Age. She Was The Longest Living Koi Fish (C. 1751 – 7 July 1977.)
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"It should be no surprise that with a subreddit as large as ours that there is always an attempt to advertise from a third party or scam the users and so part of our work is rooting out those false people, countering their spam tactics, etc."
We also wanted to find out MaxLemon's opinion about where the line between something that's "just" interesting and intersting AF lies. "The line is hard to define, to be honest, and it definitely varies by moderator. If the same thing was posted multiple times on our subreddit, it's no longer interesting AF, much less interesting. If it feels like it fits more on /r/mildyinteresting, then it's not iaf."
#7 Certain Fish Skin Can Be Grafted Onto Burns And Diabetic Wounds. The Material Recruits The Body's Own Cells And Is Converted Eventually Into Living Tissue
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#8 Turkish Garbage Collectors Open A Library With All Of The Books Citizens Discard In Their Trash
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#9 These 3 Jewish Men Arrived In Auschwitz On The Same Day, & Were Tattooed 10 Numbers Apart. 73 Years Later, @sandibachom Photographed Them Meeting For The First Time For The Last Eyewitness Project, As Free Men Who Survived To Build Families And Prosperous Lives.
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Like the moderators of the subreddit say, their community is meant for “almost anything” that people find incredibly interesting. And with that kind of content, it’s no surprise that people have been flooding in since 2008 (yup, the subreddit has been online for over 12 staggering years!).
The size of the subreddit is absolutely shocking. So much so that the team curating the content that makes its way to the front page of the subreddit has some help from automated moderators to help keep everything flowing nicely. Two of the mods are AIs: AutoModerator and BotDefense. It only makes sense to enlist their help when your community has boomed to such an extent. Let’s just hope that the AI mods don’t turn against their fellow redditors.
#10 A Pill Bottle That Keeps Track Of When It Was Last Opened
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#11 Some Drugstores In The Czech Republic Introduced Shampoo And Shower Gel Filling Machines. Customers Can Refill Their Empty Bottles With Various Products So They Don't Have To Buy A New One Everytime
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#12 Heart-Shaped Amethyst Geodes. Discovered Yesterday In Artigas, By The Mining Company Uruguay Minerals
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Why we find some things interesting and think other things are boring is more complicated than it seems. Tom Vanderbilt, author of ‘You May Also Like,’ spoke with ‘The Atlantic’s’ Julie Beck about why people like things. According to him, our taste (i.e. our likes and dislikes) is humanity’s way of ordering information and filtering the world.
Taste is also a form of social learning that has turned into a way of figuring out what activities and things are linked to prestige. In other words, if someone we respect likes something or finds something interesting, then you’d better bet your bottom dollar that we’ll instinctively want to check it out.
“There’s no silver bullet theory for explaining anyone's taste. It's always a mixture of exposure, of culture, of a person's personality. And none of these are particularly static or fixed. The nice thing about tastes is that they are subject to change. We can kind of always be reinventing them and reinventing ourselves a little bit,” Vanderbilt said.
#13 This Sculpture By Issac Cordal In Berlin Is Called ‟politicians Discussing Global Warming.”
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#14 Here Are My Removed & Genetically Modified White Blood Cells, About To Be Put Back In To Hopefully Cure My Cancer! This Is T-Cell Immunotherapy!
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#15 My Grandpa In Front Of The Plane He Flew In World War II. He Is 97 Now.
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#16 Train Has Windows That Automatically Blind When Going Past Residential Blocks
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#17 Huge Oceanic Manta Ray Spotted Near Trinidad ( Sharks For Scale )
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#18 I Stayed Up Until 4am To Capture This! Hdr Waning Moon - Composite Image
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#19 Married Couple In China Discover They Appeared In Same Photograph As Teenagers
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#20 This Picture Of A Cemetery Looks Like 2 Pictures Put Together
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#21 A Rare View Of The Statue Of Liberty From The Balcony On Its Torch. The Exit There Has Been Closed Since 1916
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#22 This Was The First Ever Design Of Voldemort, Which Many Find Far More Terrifying
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#23 Next Time You See A Croc Floating Towards You, Remember This Image And You Won't Panic.
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#24 A Korean News Program Actually Filming On The Top Of The Building Instead Of Using A Green Screen
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#25 Anti Poachers Guarding The Gorillas Selfie
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#26 A Person Wearing A Full-Face Prosthetic Mask To Evade Cctv And Facial Recognition
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#27 I Run Down An Old Dirt Road. Trash Is Dumped There. One Day I Stopped And Found A Box Of Money. All The Envelopes Are Different Countries All Over The World. Mostly Date From The 1700s-1900s. The Oldest Is A Coin From 1621. I’ve Got Some From Countries That No Longer Exist. I’m Still Researching.
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#28 U.S. Marshalls Escorting The Extremely Brave Ruby Bridges, 6 Years Old, To School In 1960. This Courageous Young Girl Is Known For Being The First African American Child To Attend An All-White Elementary School In The South.
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#29 The Full Tiananmen Square Tank Man Picture Is Much More Powerful Than The Cropped One
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#30 A Train Car In Minnesota Carrying Corn Had A Leak.
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#31 Photographer Gets One In A Lifetime Shot Of Meteor By Accident
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#32 The Smallest Active-Duty Vessel (Mini Tug) Of The United States Navy.
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#33 Juvenile Owls Often Sleep Face Down Because Their Heads Are Too Heavy
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#34 A Tram In The Netherlands Failed To Stop In Time And Broke Through The Emergency Barrier. It's Being Held Up By The Statue Of A Whale's Tail.
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#35 Shadow Of A Millipede Walking
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#36 These So-Called Wine Windows Were Used By Vintners In Italy To Sell Wine During Plague Pandemics In The 17th Century. Now They Are Coming Back To Use Due To Coronavirus
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#37 This Is Javier Botet, An Actor With Marfan Syndrome - A Genetic Disorder That Affects Connective Tissue And Makes People Grow Very Tall And Thin, With Exceptionally Long Arms And Legs. Botet Is 6′7″ Tall And Weighs 120 Pounds
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#38 X-Ray Of A Pregnant Dog
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#39 Chimp With Alopecia Reveals A Truth Usually Concealed In Fur: Chimps. Are. Ripped.
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#40 A Soldier "Turtle" Ant, Which Uses Its Rounded Head To Block Off The Nest Entrance.
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#41 Children Living In Siberia Getting UV Light Exposure During The Long Dark Winter Months.
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#42 Ants Gutted My Almond To Make Their Own Almond Flour.
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#43 I Always Post Photos Of Crystals After They Have Been Cleaned And Tidied Up, But Here Is A Picture Of A Gorgeous Smoky Amethyst Fresh Out Of The Earth In Georgia! ⛏
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#44 A Bonsai Apple Tree Growing A Full-Sized Apple
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#45 This Is The Only Existing Photo Of Chernobyl Taken On The Morning Of The Nuclear Accident. The Heavy Grain Is Due To The Huge Amount Of Radiation In The Air That Began To Destroy The Camera Film The Second It Was Exposed.
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#46 This Is The First Flower Ever Grown Entirely In Space.
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#47 Baobabs In The Mist. Madagascar
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#48 It's Snowing In Australia At The Moment And Its Not Every Day That You Get To See Kangaroos Hopping In The Snow.
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#49 Customer Brought In A 1934 Thousand Dollar Bill. After Ten Years In Banking Finally Got To See One In Person.
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#50 Im The Girl From The "Giant" Wolf Post. Here's Another One Of Our Rescues, Yuki.
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#51 This Is What Sunset Looks Like From Space.
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#52 My Friend And I Coded Plague Inc… For A Ti-84 Calculator
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#53 This Wolf And Bear Pair Were Documented Travelling, Hunting And Sharing Food Together For 10 Days.
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#54 When The Maldivian President Held The World's First Underwater Cabinet Meeting To Sign A Climate Change Sos.
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#55 Sprouting Some Cherry Tomato Seeds
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#56 I've Been Training Myself How To Draw Photorealistically For A Little While Now. Here's My Best Sampling From Each Year Of Progress.
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#57 In Finland Temperature Gets As Low As -40c In Winter, The Trees Are Covered In So Much Snow And Frost That It Looks Like Landscape From Another Planet
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#58 John Thompson Was Home Alone When He Had Both His Arms Ripped Off In A Farming Accident. However, He Still Managed To Get Up And Dial For Help Via Holding A Pencil In His Mouth. He Survived And Both His Arms Were Reattached.
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#59 On This Day 40 Years Ago Terry Fox, A 21 Year Old Canadian Who Lost A Leg To Cancer, Began An East To West Cross-Canada Run To Raise Money And Awareness For Cancer Research. He Ran The Equivalent Of A Full Marathon Every Day And Made It 143 Days And 5,373 Km Before He Lost His Battle With Cancer
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#60 Saying Goodbye To A Species, The Very Last Male Northern White Rhino. A Powerful Photo Of 2018.
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#61 Spacex Falcon 9 Leaving Earth's Atmosphere And Created A "Twilight Phenomenon"
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#62 The Progression Is Satisfyingly Brilliant.
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#63 This Toy Car On A Treadmill
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#64 What The Pyramid Looked Like. Originally Encased In White Lime Stone With A Peak Made Of Solid Gold
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#65 The Arabian Sand Boa Never Fails To Amuse Me, As It Strongly Resembles A Small Child’s Best Effort At Drawing A Snake.
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#66 Medieval Bathroom, What A Shit Job Tô Clean It
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#67 Camazotz - The Maya Batman - In 2014 Warner Bros Summoned 30 Artists To Reinterpret Batman On The Occasion Of Its 75th Anniversary. One Of Those Who Accepted The Assignment Was Christian Pacheco, Owner Of The Design Firm Kimbal, Based In Yucatán, Mexico. This Was His Design.
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#68 It Is -20 (F) In Chicago, This Is Lake Michigan.
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#69 Two Pictures Stitched Together From Nazi Rally At Reichserntedankfest In 1934 Make You Realise How Enormous It Actually Was
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#70 103 Years Ago Someone Lost Their Coin Purse.
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#71 After Sitting In A Hospital Freezer For A Month And A Half, A Large Section Of My Skull Has Been Reattached.
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#72 Biracial Twin Sisters Born To A White Father And A Half-Jamaican Mother
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#73 The True Scale Of Michelangelo's David
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#74 Illegal Picture Taken Inside The Us Supreme Court In 1932. Dr. Erich Salomon Faked A Broken Arm So He Could Hide A Camera In His Cast.
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#75 These Two Houses In Red Deer Alberta Join Backyards Every Winter To Build A Hockey Rink For Their Kids. There's A Terraced Viewing Deck, A Hot Tub And Grill.
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#76 The Tomb Of Ramesses Vi, The Valley Of Kings, Egypt
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#77 Sweet Octopus Chandelier My Buddy Made And Installed Today!
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#78 Picture Of A Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest
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#79 Concrete Made To Look Like Wood.
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#80 The Electric Forest Festival In 2019
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#81 Apprently Owls Have A Pair Of Slender Legs Under Their Fluff
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#82 Decaying Great White Shark, Left To Rot At An Abandoned Wildlife Park In Melbourne.
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#83 Last Sunset 9/10/2001
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#84 An Incredibly Intact Crinoid Specimen Fossil Dating Back To About 345 Million Years Ago
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#85 A Little Scar Cover-Up Tattoo
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#86 Himalayan Griffon Vulture Showing Off Its Fake Eyes
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#87 In Case You Have Not Seen What A Clump Of Dna Looks Like.
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#88 A Soviet Poster From 1944 Depicting Legions Of German Soldiers Fated To Die In The Russian Winter Thanks To Hitler's Orders.
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#89 2,200 Year Old Greek Armbands
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#90 This Is Daisuke Inoue, The Inventor Of Karaoke. He Did Not Patent The Machine Because He Wanted To "Teach The World To Sing". He Earned Nothing From The Billion Dollar Industry His Invention Has Spawned And Has No Regrets. Photo Is Of Him And The Very First Karaoke Machine Ever Made.
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#91 Finally Got My Prosthetics In!
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#92 A 2000 Year Old Green Serpentine Mask Found At The Base Of A Pyramid In Mexico
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#93 A Modified Us 1 Dollar Coin With A Hidden Button For Clasping And Unclasping A Sword
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#94 Woman Delivers Baby Moments After Beirut Blasts
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#95 This Coin
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#96 Russian Photographer Andrey Pavlov Takes The Most Mind-Blowing Macro Photographs Of Ants That You Will Ever See.
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#97 A Massive Eruption On The Sun Just Happened A Few Moments Ago And I Was Able To Capture It From My Backyard. At Least Two Earths Could Fit In That Loop. [oc]
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#98 Clouds In Harrodsburg, Kentucky. No Filter
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#99 Danish Special Forces (Frogmen) Look Scary Af
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#100 Ski Trail Sign In Summer vs. In Winter
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#101 A Spring That Flows Through A Living Tree
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#102 A Connecticut Gallery Owner, Fernando Alvarez, Was Arrested After Dropping A 10-Foot-Long, 800-Pound Sculpture Of A Heroin Spoon In Front Of Purdue Pharma’s Headquarters And Says He Plans To “Gift” More Spoons To Other Drug Companies, As Well As To Politicians And Doctors.
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#103 Carving The Entire Alphabet In Pencil Lead.
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#104 This Ad Hoc Theater Made From Hay Bales.
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#105 It Is 'Kukur Tihar' Here In Nepal. Today Is The Day When Dogs Are Worshiped And Thanked For Their Loyalty.
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#106 A German Circus Is Using Holograms Instead Of Live Animals For A Cruelty-Free Magical Experience. And It's Cool.
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#107 How To Solve A Pigpen Cypher
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#108 Meet Narnia, A Rare Two Faced Cat
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#109 The Road To The White House Just Got A Fresh Paint Job.
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#110 The Protest Rally In Hong Kong Right Now (Source: Twitter)
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#111 White House During The Last Hours Of May, 2020
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#112 Sodalite Is A Type Of Rock That Reacts With UV Light. When Exposed To It, The Rock Turns To A Golden, Lava-Like Color.
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#113 This Beach In Turkey With Accessibility Features
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#114 An Intact Pyramid Capstone, One Of The Few Know In Existence
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#115 These 70s ‘Conversation Pits’ Need To Be Brought Back
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#116 Orgone Accumulator, A Device Sold In The 1950s To Allow A Person Sitting Inside To Attract Orgone, A Massless 'Healing Energy'. The Fda Noted That One Purchaser, A College Professor, Knew It Was "Phony" But Found It "Helpful Because His Wife Sat Quietly In It For Four Hours Every Day."
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#117 A Group Of Archaeologists Discovered A Claw Of A Bird (Flesh And Muscles Still Attached To It) While Digging Down In A Cave In New Zealand. Later, The Archaeologists Confirmed That It Is A Foot Of Extinct Bird Moa Which Disappeared From Earth Some 700 - 800 Years Ago.
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#118 About 100,000 People Take To The Streets Of Warsaw Poland To Oppose Tightened Abortion Law
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#119 When The Roof Of An Abandoned Shopping Mall Collapsed, Water Accumulated, And It Became A Breeding Ground For Mosquitoes. Locals Put In Fish To Eat The Larvae.
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