Interesting As Fuck...

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[Helico-pterFunk]

There are over 200 dead bodies of climbers on Mt. Everest because it’s so difficult to bring them down.

Speaking of Everest ...

Climbers are scaling Everest in record numbers despite Covid outbreaks

The pandemic forced a complete shutdown of Mount Everest, creating a backlog of mountaineers intent on tackling the peak when it reopened this spring - despite it being deadlier than ever.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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[717jet]

Farm dogs leading cattle to safety during one of the worst flooding years in Florida.

 

[717jet]

Air Conditioned Luxury Lawn Mower - 1950s

 

[717jet]

Koi Hanako, the oldest Koi fish ever recorded. Born in Japan in 1751 and died in 1977, at the grand old age of 226 years.

 

[717jet]

This is how Sperm Whales sleep. They do this for up to 2 hours with the rest of their pod. This was only discovered in 2008.

 

[717jet]

Singapore's Naval Combat Divers Graduation Ceremony

 

[717jet]

Found only in a small pocket of the Gobi Desert, and with a population of less than 40, the Gobi bear is the rarest bear on earth

 

[717jet]

In Italy, "Mule Nannies" are used for carrying grazing animals from high pastures down to the plains. Since newborn lambs are unable to make the journey themselves they ride in the pouches of a specially made saddle. They have breaks throughout the way, where the lambs return to their mom for a meal

 

[717jet]

Pench Tiger Reserve India, 16km long elevated Highway, solely dedicated to wildlife movement underneath.

 

[717jet]

Models of cars embedded in social network icons in Argentina to raise awareness against the use of phones while driving

 

[717jet]

Autoped Scooter 1916

 

[717jet]

Miles Davis. Upcycled metal sculpture by Vlado Kostov

 

[717jet]

The Eye of Earth is a karst spring located in the southern slopes of the highest mountain in Croatia called Dinara. This small body of water is formed by a hole with depths unknown to man.

 

[717jet]

After 2300 years underwater, a cache of ancient relics have been rediscovered off the coast of Thonis-Heraclion in Egypt

 

[dbluesun]

love this thread

 

[717jet]

Forensic reconstruction based on DNA and grave goods (and of course a little bit of guessing) of a woman who lived in the Upper Paleolithic about 20,000 years ago at a site called L'Abri Pataud in Aquitaine, southwestern France. (Created by Elisabeth Daynes)

 

[717jet]

love this thread

Yes, very interesting.

 

[717jet]

The first saber-toothed predators were a group known as the Gorgonopsids. Dominating during the second half of the Permian, Inostrancevia alexandri, pictured here, could reach 11ft long and up to 600lbs.

 

[717jet]

A blue whale's heart

 

[717jet]

Hungarian engineers took the tracks of a WWII-era Russian T34 tank and strapped jet engines from a MiG-21 on top. It was used when putting out the Kuwaiti oil fires.

 

[717jet]

Muhammad Ali & The Beatles during the Beatles tour in the United States

 

[717jet]

Color Temperature Of Different Shades Of Light

 

[717jet]

As with humans, one sign of a Crocodile reaching old age (usually at 90-100yrs old) is Permanent Tooth Loss. But be warned, elderly crocs can still shatter bones and sever limbs with jaw power alone.

 

[717jet]

Having no computers, this teacher from Ghana would teach Microsoft Word to his students by drawing its features on a blackboard.

 

[Shaka54]

The USS Gerald R. Ford: At 337 m (1,106 ft) and 100,000 tons it is the largest aircraft carrier in the world

Here's this very ship being tested against an explosion.

 

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[dbluesun]

Hungarian engineers took the tracks of a WWII-era Russian T34 tank and strapped jet engines from a MiG-21 on top. It was used when putting out the Kuwaiti oil fires.

used how?

 

[717jet]

The models of “American Gothic” stand next to the painting

 

[717jet]

We used to have bison-drawn carriages in my town (Sioux Falls, SD)

 

[717jet]

Bruce, the shark from Jaws, 1975.

 

[717jet]

Released in 1894, this is the first publicly sold bottle of Coca-Cola, which is said to have contained around 3.5 grams of cocaine

 

[717jet]

Found in 1867 inside a jungle cave, this feral boy named Dina Sanichar, preferred eating raw meat, had trouble standing on two feet, growled like a wolf, and gnawed on bones to sharpen his teeth. He never learned to speak, and became the inspiration for The Jungle Book's character of Mowgli.