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The Mega Marvin instrument, used to create cinematic sounds for horror movies and games

Crocodiles take terrestrial prey into the water, but bring aquatic prey to shore

America, before the establishment of Environmental Protection Agency

During the 2012 Olympics, the North Korean women's football team walked off the pitch in protest before a match, after the players noticed that their faces were being pictured alongside the South Korean flag

In 1965, CIA lost plutonium capsules in Himalayas which, if damaged, could contaminate the water supply for 600 million Indians

This is how - 50° looks like in Russia.

A steam locomotive ejecting cinders

Belsnickel is a Christmas figure from German and Pennsylvania Dutch tradition. He appears as a rough, ragged man dressed in fur or old clothes, carrying a switch and a bag of treats. Belsnickel rewards good children with candy and nuts and bad children with light taps on the behind with the switch

EA GAMES and japanese street racers

Inspired by vines, a robot developed by MIT and Stanford deploys inflatable tubes that wrap around and then close in a loop, forming a flexible sling to lift heavy or fragile objects, or even people, without damaging them.

Robert Barnes, posing with the giantic flipper of a sperm whale, circa 1890s. Glass negative

Before& after satellite images show impact of floods in Washington state

playing Tetris on drones

The quagga was a unique subspecies of the plains zebra, distinguished by its half-striped, half-solid coat. That went extinct around 1883.

World's largest planned renewable energy park in Gujarat, India (30 GW) - comparable to the electricity capacity of several small countries.

Angel Oak SC

The incredible ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam

Train Crash Test

In 1917 a sailor named John Charles Mayers survived the Halifax explosion (Canada's worst explosion) despite being hurled 1km away from where he stood

Unzie Circassian Circa 1900. He Looked Like A Total Rockstar!

Beautiful wet on wet painting on paper

1200+ year old oak tree, near Travnik, Bosnia. Colorized photo from 1897. Sadly, in withered in the 1980s.

The First Photograph of Chernobyl.

Stoffel , the honey badger that can escape from anywhere