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The Malaysian Jewel Centipede and her offspring.

To celebrate the opening of Fantasyland in 2012, Disney flew a giant fire breathing dragon overhead in Magic Kingdom. It was never used again after this day.

How A Christmas Carol (2009) was filmed

The UK's smallest hotel used to be a public toilet

Daft Punk on why they cover their faces

Rare MiG-15 Engine Start-Up shortly after rebuild

Paris recreated with computer components

Automated Solar Panel Cleaning System Which Is Also Powered By What Else--Solar Panel!

Superman (1948) used animation before CGI was invented.

A Norwegian Christmas PSA inspired by Don Bluth Animation

The sights and sounds of this amazing vintage printing machine.

View of a wind power farm from a flight

The genius tricks behind 1920s movie stunts

A duck was given a 3D-printed foot, and it took its first ever steps.

The van inscription of king Xerxes the 1st, written on a cliff 70 feet off the ground in trilingual text (old Persian/Elamite and Babylonian).

Tokyo in 1965

Agatized Brain Coral I found in Florida

Inside layers of a flight recorder (black box)

A large old growth tree stump with full grown trees growing on top of it

South Pole Station

Polysyndactyly (or synpolydactyly) is a congenital condition combining polydactyly (extra fingers or toes) and syndactyly (webbed or fused digits).

Today I learned about the Radium Girls… while measuring a WWII cockpit

Victorian actress Sarah Bernhardt dressed in full diving suit (the Ocean Empres). The face behind this photo that passed around some years ago. Photo ca. 1880.

The last words of soul music legend Marvin Gaye were: “I got what I wanted…I couldn’t do it myself, so I had him do it.” - Gaye uttered these words to his brother Frankie, moments after his father shot him twice in the chest. Prior to being murdered, Gaye had attempted suicide numerous times.