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People love going down rabbit holes, and when they crawl back with something new, they head straight to the subreddit 'All That's Interesting.'

It's full of pictures of remote places, historical artifacts, inspiring human initiatives, and much, much more. So if you too enjoy learning obscure facts about anything and everything, join us in having a look at this online community's top posts.

It's like wandering into a museum run entirely by the internet, which is free but still works.

#1

Elderly woman stands next to a large hole in a wall, an intriguing random picture worth going down a rabbit hole for

Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who lived above her family's shop when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940. Soon after, they decided to build a secret room and use it to hide Jewish refugees. Over the next four years, Corrie ten Boom saved more than 800 people from the Holocaust.

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Rob D
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23 hours ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Her direct family's only survivor. I can't wrap my head around an entire society mobilizing around, not just genocide, but the systemic, industrial nature of it. Which is why I sound like a psychopath in my unrelenting bullying, cajoling, and profiling trumpers as the vile scum they are... Because we are in 1930s Germany danger territory of making, and have made, twice now, history altering cruelty ("faith") based decisions on the backs of people who absolutely would have been Hïtler supporters in another context. If only half of Germany had looked at the other half and said, "get that filthy "red hat" off, it's not okay. Who you support and why is not okay. How antithetical you're being to basic decency, humanity, and the agreed upon role of government in a civil society is not ok.". Anyway, I often sound like a ranting loon because more people needed to 10-15 years prior to the holócaust. And I am not being overdramatic or hyperbolic about MAGAts being every single bit as dangerous.

Rebecca O’Donnell
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21 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your comment needs to be upvoted more, Rob D!

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sbj
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1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What an incredible feat!

Smeghead Tribble Down Under
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21 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Dutch were absolute legends, hiding and helping their Jewish friends and neighbours to escape to neutral countries.

Bartlet for world domination
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19 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nah, most looked the other way, some sold info to the Germans and The Netherlands have the lowest percentage of surviving Jews in Western Europe.

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96m77mfphq
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18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and today people like her will be arrested for obstruction

Moving Enigma
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20 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And now people in the US need to start building the same to protect people from ICE.

96m77mfphq
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18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and now we arrest people like her for obstruction.

RomanceRadish
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16 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At a huge personal risk to herself.

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    #2

    Morgan Freeman shown with cowboy hat, highlighting his Mississippi ranch converted into a bee sanctuary to aid bee population.

    Morgan Freeman imported 26 hives from Arkansas to his ranch and planted magnolia, clover, lavender, and bee-friendly fruit trees so that the bees could thrive.

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    Angela B
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seems a given, when you voice Our Lord so well.

    Otto Katz
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    19 hours ago

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    This is nice, but it's not so much the European honey bee that's at risk, it is the rest of the native bees that are in danger. Here is a study about it (yes, i know bp will hide my comment) stating ~25% of native bee population is in trouble. https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/native_pollinators/pdfs/Pollinators_in_Peril.pdf

    Smeghead Tribble Down Under
    Community Member
    21 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is he considered a national treasure in the USA? If not, he should be.

    WindySwede
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    17 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    @Otto Katz : Yes 100% this! Humans have an economical intrest in the honeybee and will do much to not let them die out. Try to do native flowers with lots of pollen and nectar. And tips for future, Post link with an answer then we can answer directly to you 👍

    Sofia
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    16 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and called the Bee Gees to sing?

    #3

    Vintage black and white photo of a woman seated indoors, part of a collection of random pictures worth going down a rabbit hole for.

    In 1913, a 10-year-old black girl named Sarah Rector received a land allotment of 160 acres in Oklahoma. The best farming land was reserved for whites, leaving her with a barren plot, but oil was discovered on her property and she became one of the country's first black millionaires.

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    LALALand
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that’s how it’s done

    Kid Murray
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    17 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What, being given worthless land and hoping oil will be discovered on it?

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    Lyop
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wasn't a movie made about this recently? Sarah's Oil?

    Andrew Keir
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    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm just happy, but amazed that the State didn't immediately find some way of stealing it all back from her, like they did when it turned out that the First People had been 'given' some land that was later found to have value.

    Smeghead Tribble Down Under
    Community Member
    21 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh that is poetic justice to the max! Love it!

    FABULOUS1
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    11 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they tried to forcefully take her land.

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    #4

    Capybara resting with an orange tabby cat and other capybaras in a natural outdoor setting, random picture.

    A herd of capybaras at Malaysia's national zoo adopted a stray cat named Oyen during the COVID-19 pandemic — and today he’s an official part of their enclosure.

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    DH
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nobody tell Oyen that Capybaras are rodents. Cappies are chill tho, they know Oyen is a cat.

    Rob D
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    23 hours ago (edited)

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    https://youtube.com/shorts/5BBTEzP0kVo?si=6FHSwTFelQM3EmX5 😄

    Shark Lady
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    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you read this without seeing Oyen you would guess he's a ginger, they are built a bit different.

    #5

    Portrait of a smiling astronaut in NASA uniform standing next to a model space shuttle and American flag, random pictures.

    In 1959 police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy refused to leave after being told the library was not for Black people. The boy Ronald McNair went on to get a PhD in physics from MIT and became an astronaut. That library is now named after him.

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    N Fritz
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    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ronald McNair died in the space shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. He is also the namesake of the McNair Scholars Program to assist low-income students with graduate education. A true hero!

    Rob D
    Community Member
    23 hours ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1959. 1959. 1959. Remember that the next time a boomer MAGAt refutes racism. These people were literally adults BEFORE The civil Rights and voting Rights Acts were passed. Yet took absolutely zero time voting "we're tired of hearing about it, there's no racism. Now you want to talk discrimination, let's talk about how tough us white conservative Christians have it..." 😡 And we still share a political realm with these morons and still pay for it. Every d**n day.

    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mr Pedant mentions - people may try to assert that something is incorrect - this assertion is called 'rebuttal'. MAGA are rebutting claims they are racist. It would only be if they proved this to be true beyond reasonable doubt , that they could say they were refuting it. The words are different for a reason, because they mean different things. Don't give MAGA breathing room.

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    #6

    Comparison of two random pictures showing landscape change from 1989 to 2019 with increased greenery and urban growth.

    The reforestation of Rio De Janeiro from 1989 to 2019.

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    sbj
    Community Member
    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is such a wonderful sight

    Cee Cee
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    22 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Shame about the continuing deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and treatment of indigenous tribal people.

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    #7

    Black and white mugshot photographs of a woman wearing striped clothing, showing three different angles of her face.

    Zofia Posmysz's mugshot after being arrested for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets in 1942 when she was 19 years old. She was sent to Auschwitz and Ravensbrück, surviving harsh conditions before being liberated in May 1945 by the US Army. She died in 2022 at 98 years old.

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    Earthquake903
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Racists are pure evil

    Ben Aziza
    Community Member
    22 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The idea that in the west, many countries they still classify ppl by "race" is insane to me. I see that the word "African American" for example is still used in IDs and things like that. We know it refer to ppl with black skin. Yet I am from Africa myself. I have olive coloured skin. Would I be an "African American" if i get citizenship there? Why is this a thing at all! I dont get it. We are one humankind with different countries of origin. That is it. I will understand this whole "race" thing if one can tell me what "race" are the grandkids of 4 grandparents from Canada, Ghana, Korea, and Australia are ! Or if humanity diverge on different planets for 1 milliopn years or so in th future or something like that...

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    Smeghead Tribble Down Under
    Community Member
    21 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And yet we still have Holo.caust deniers. Absolutely makes my blood boil.

    TACO Don's Authentic TexMex
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    8 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same. I wasn't around then to fight fàscism like my grandfathers were but I will do it now in the US instead

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    #8

    Group of WWII pilots in leather jackets and goggles posing in front of airplane, a fascinating random picture to explore.

    During WW2, the Tuskegee Airmen were a group of black pilots who were given outdated planes because the U.S. military didn't believe they could succeed. In spite of the odds, they would have one of the lowest loss rates of any American fighter group and would earn over 850 medals for their service.

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    Ace
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    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Disgusting that the US army was segregated in WW2, and remained so for many years afterwards. There were sometimes problems in British pubs who refused to make their bars white-only, so allowing all staff from US air bases to co-mingle. The Americans tried to stop them, but were told ever-so-politley to fock right off with that shít.

    FABULOUS1
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    10 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The current administration has removed all mention of them, and many other black history they deem as woke. It baffles me that those who believe themselves to be so superior have to remove the accomplishment's of people of color.

    Ben
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    16 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They were upgraded at some point.

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    #9

    Side-by-side random pictures of a woman and man with varied expressions, showcasing intriguing and unusual portraits.

    In 1995, 15-year-old Nicole van den Hurk was killed while biking to work in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Her murder went unsolved for two decades — until her stepbrother confessed to get police to reopen the investigation. Subsequent DNA testing then led to the arrest and conviction of her killer.

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    sbj
    Community Member
    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Such determination on his part to get some justice for her

    Remi (He/Him)
    Community Member
    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And appalling lack of determination from the police

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    Andrew Keir
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    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm confused - did her step-brother falsely 'confess' to get the case opened up, or was he in fact the killer?

    Shark Lady
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    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He falsely confessed as he knew it would reopen the investigation.

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    #10

    Aerial view of a group of elephants resting on dry grass surrounded by green bushes in a natural habitat.

    A drone captures an elephant herd sleeping while migrating across China.

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    sofacushionfort
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    17 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In my day we didn’t use drones to see pink elephants

    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After the drone had captured them, where did it take them?

    #11

    Side-by-side pictures showing a young and elderly woman in traditional Japanese clothing, a random picture worth exploring.

    She was 11 when WWI started, 36 when WWII began, 74 when Star Wars released, and 116 when COVID-19 started. Her name was Kane Tanaka, the world’s oldest living person until she passed away in 2022 at age 119. She was born on January 2, 1903.

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    LALALand
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beautiful lady

    Rob D
    Community Member
    22 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think they're finding the most common through line with people that live to 120 is being born in areas that kept incredibly poor birth records.

    #12

    Group photo with a boy, adults, and judges in a courtroom, one boy sitting relaxed at a table, a random picture worth going down a rabbit hole for

    5-Year-Old Boy Invites His Entire Class To Watch Him Get Adopted

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    Iampenny
    Community Member
    19 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Darned Ninjas are at it again.

    ANGEL BABY
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    4 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You think you're being cute lampenny.... "Ninjas" you need to be blocked from BP!!!!!!!!!

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    Kid Murray
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    17 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is there anything cuter than a little kid wearing a bowtie?

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    #13

    Black and white photo of a man in a hat and suit playing with a young child on a beach, random pictures concept.

    In 1962 a group of far-right French officers attempted to assassinate President Charles De Gaulle for his support of Algerian independence. One of the 187 shots fired was blocked by a framed picture of his late, mentally disabled daughter Anne that he took with him wherever he went. He was unharmed

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    Maya_D
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    22 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Must have been stormtroopers with aim like that.

    Fellfromthemoon
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    23 hours ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So, 186 shots were blocked neither by the framed picture nor luckily De Gaulle's body.

    #14

    Ancient winged bull relief being excavated by workers, showcasing intricate stone carvings in an archaeological site.

    A Massive 2700-Year-Old, 18-Ton Statue Of An Assyrian Deity That Was Excavated In Iraq In November 2023

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    sbj
    Community Member
    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Amazing condition, It looks like it was carved only yesterday

    Fellfromthemoon
    Community Member
    23 hours ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Delicate and large stoneworks give me a strange anxiety. I always think about almost finishing the carving when the instriument slips, ruining the entire thing.

    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Feel , then, for the jeweller who had to make the first cut on the diamond that went on to be the Great Star of Africa on the sceptre of the reigning monarch of the UK. Apparently he fainted after his first cut was successful ...

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    Dar Mal
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    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How long until ISIS or one ot the other extremist groups destroys it?

    #15

    Black and white photo showing an emotional hospital visit with family members around a patient, a random picture worth exploring.

    When gay rights activist David Kirby revealed his homosexuality to his family, they cast him out. But Kirby's family returned to his side as he lay dying of AIDS, captured in this photo taken by student photographer Therese Frare in 1990.

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    Sian E
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    19 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Look how far we came in just 40 years. From unknown virus with a guaranteed d*@th sentence, to experimental d***s, to greater understanding of the virus, to medication that can reduce the virus to undetectable amounts in the body - meaning that a person diagnosed with HIV today has every chance of living a normal lifespan. And yet the threat of all that progress being stripped away is very, very real because of political and religious decisions.

    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too many religions are not much more than licences to hate everyone outside their churches.

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    Lyop
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So much loss and regret in one photo....

    G A
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    2 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Used as a Benetton advert at the time. I remember it 40 or 50 wide and 20 foot high on the side of buildings.

    #16

    Polar bear resting its paws on a window frame of an abandoned building in a random picture worth exploring.

    Once a meteorological research station of the Soviet Union, Kolyuchin Island is a 3 mile long island in the Arctic circle that was abandoned in 1992. In 2021, a photographer traveled to Kolyuchin and captured something unexpected: it's been completely taken over by polar bears.

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    Owen
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's safe to say they can keep it. Good luck trying to get them out.

    MrLiesegang
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    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Whoa, look at me, I'm a human, I'm paying taxes and rent."

    Crystal M
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    19 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know she would k**l me immediately, but she looks so soft!

    G A
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    2 hours ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I'm just waiting on that little b***h, Goldilocks..."

    Lee Gilliland
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    10 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's out of the wind and snow.

    #17

    Man holding barnacle-covered sword by the ocean, one of the random pictures people say are worth exploring.

    A 900-Year-Old Crusader Sword That Was Found In 2021 On The Bottom Of The Mediterranean By A Scuba Diver

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    Paweł Pieniążek
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://archaeologymag.com/2023/08/crusader-sword-found-in-mediterranean-was-bent-in-battle/

    Multa Nocte
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    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hey! Did BP fix the hiding of links? This is the first time in a month I've seen a link that wasn't hidden.

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    Multa Nocte
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    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And now he's King of Britain.

    G A
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    2 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The lady du lac holidaying in the med?

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    Costa
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We need the "after" as well as the "before".

    JuniorCJ82
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    16 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Went to the Israel Antiquities Authority youtube page and they didn't have a video of the restoration. Maybe it's been removed or something. It HAS been 4 years.

    #18

    Side-by-side image showing an ancient skull and a man biting an axe handle, highlighting intriguing random pictures.

    In an incredible fusion of history and modern science, experts have brought the face of a medieval warrior back to life. He was one of many who fell in the brutal Battle of Visby in 1361

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    Rob D
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    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    D**n that doesn't look quick either.

    Son of Philosoraptor
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    15 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably that disabled him and then he got speared or stabbed. That doesn't look fatal, just awful.

    Ravenkbh
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    16 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That cured his sinus troubles

    #19

    Bronze sculpture of a skeletal figure curled up on dirt, illustrating one of the random pictures worth exploring deeply.

    The Tollund Man, The 2,400-Year-Old Corpse Uncovered In A Peat Bog In Denmark That Is So Well-Preserved That Scientists Were Able To Take His Fingerprints And Determine His Last Meal Before He Was Killed

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    sbj
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    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember this image from school textbooks and our teacher being weirdly obsessive about the stomach contents

    Lady Eowyn
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    19 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The original post comments on the fact that there was a noose around his neck. He was hanged - hung? , probably as part of a human sacrifice.

    #20

    Black and white photo of a man running on road, smiling and waving, illustrating random pictures worth going down a rabbit hole for.

    At the 544-mile Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983, a 61-year-old potato farmer named Cliff Young showed up in overalls and work boots. While other runners stopped to sleep, Young moved continuously for five straight days. He would win the race and broke the existing record by two days.

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    My O My
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    22 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that's the reason good work boots are so important!

    Moving Enigma
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    19 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As he obviously didn't run in his overalls (assuming this is the correct picture) now I'm left wondering, and hoping, that he didn't run in his work boots either!

    Huddo's sister
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    5 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is a good tv movie or mini series (I can't remember which) made by the ABC called Cliffy about this. I hadn't heard of him until I saw it, being born in the 90s.

    azubi
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    16 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The age was just an estimate by the picture taken afterwards. Actually he was 25 years old.

    #21

    Man steering a small wooden boat on rough ocean waves in a vintage black and white photo, random pictures rabbit hole

    In 1947, Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl completed a 101-day, 4,300-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean from Peru to French Polynesia on a homemade raft built only with balsa logs and hemp rope — proving that ancient peoples could have made the same voyage

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    Sally Moen
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    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The movie Kon-Tiki was very popular at the time.

    Ace
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    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But they didn't. He proved that the technology available to them might have made it possible, but later research proved conclusively that the various migration routes he was proposing did not happen.

    Andrew Keir
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    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He did what he could with the knowledge available at the time. Respect is due.

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    #22

    Unusual four-armed sea creature with translucent skin and blue center on a black background, a random picture to explore.

    The Ocean Project — an international undertaking to catalog and identify the 1 to 2 million undocumented animals in the ocean — has just announced the discovery of 866 new species. These are some of their most stunning finds.

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    sbj
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It resembles a deformed hand

    Auntriarch
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    20 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's been bitten by a poisonous spider

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    Lady Eowyn
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    19 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Click the gray letters under the photo to see more photos. They are very, very, strange.

    Robert T
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    16 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like an extra from Battleship! ;-)

    Shark Lady
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    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is a documentary about their work, annoyingly I can't remember which platform I watched it on.

    #23

    Aerial view of ancient ruins surrounded by trees in a hilly area, one of the random pictures worth exploring further.

    A 1,800-Year-Old Roman Gladiator Arena That Was Discovered In Western Turkey In July 2021

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    Zig Zag Wanderer
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    21 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Heck, there's a 2000 year old one still being used in Nimes (not for gladiators!). I've seen at least 3 concerts there.

    Lee Gilliland
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    10 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The number of archeological finds found by people looking at Google Earth is astonishing.

    #24

    Snow-covered village under blue light during winter, a random picture that invites going down a rabbit hole for discovery.

    The Sun has officially set in Barrow, Alaska, and it won't rise again until January 22, 2026

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    Mari
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And I feel already down when it is a cloudy day and I can't see the sun.

    General Anaesthesia
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    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    About the same for Grise Fiord, Nunavut, Canada at 76 degrees North latitude (Utqiagvik, as Barrow has officially been called since December 1, 2016, is at 71 degrees North)

    Lady Eowyn
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    19 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do you pronounce that? Serious question.

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    sbj
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd would live there if this fact meant you get to stay in bed until that date

    Smeghead Tribble Down Under
    Community Member
    21 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Today was 37°C. Tomorrow it's supposed to be 41°. I don't think I could handle months without sun.

    Kid Murray
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    17 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was -14 last night where I live in Canada. Oddly I prefer that over your temps. 41C is intolerable.

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    martymcmatrix
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    21 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'll send Al Pacino for further investigations, if you don't mind...he once was there when it wouldn't get dark, so...🤪 😜

    Son of Philosoraptor
    Community Member
    15 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time to sharpen stakes and get that garlic out.

    MrLiesegang
    Community Member
    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    More then "30 days of night", which is still a good horror movie set in Barrow.

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    #25

    Portrait and press conference images of a decorated U.S. Air Force officer, showcasing vintage military attire and medals.

    In 1967, Robert Lawrence Jr. became America’s first Black astronaut. At his first press conference, a reporter asked if he’d have to sit in the back of the space capsule. Less than a year later, he was killed in a jet crash before ever getting the chance to go to space.

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    Nicole Weymann
    Community Member
    21 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For my own peace of mind I'll assume the question was meant to be sarcastic, as a comment on still existand conditions.

    Rebecca O’Donnell
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    20 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He responded with a laugh so I hope the question was meant as a joke.

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    ANGEL BABY
    Community Member
    4 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Absolutely no part of that idiotic question was humorous, it was disrespectful and derogatory!!!!

    RamiRudolph
    Community Member
    15 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But did he sit on the back when he crashed?

    #26

    Massive moose taxidermy exhibit in a museum with two people looking up, illustrating random pictures worth exploring.

    The Irish Elk — the largest known deer species in history — which roamed across Eurasia until it went extinct approximately 7,500 years ago.

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    Angela B
    Community Member
    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *spits out banana that was used for scale*

    Hugo
    Community Member
    22 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the one in the Ulster Museum in Belfast has an even greater "wingspan". Imagine carrying all that weight on your head -- and you wouldn't want to live in a forest.

    Sally Moen
    Community Member
    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine the size of the predators that could take that out

    Ace
    Community Member
    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bigger than a moose? Apparently so, although that specimen is perhaps not the tallest that they actually grew to. Much more stocky and heavy tan a moose though.

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    #27

    Glowing vintage clock, black and white portrait of a woman, and an eerie distorted face in a series of random pictures.

    “Radium Girls” painted glowing watch dials with self luminous paint, licking their brushes to keep a sharp tip. No one told them the paint was radioactive. The radium settled into their bones, rotting their jaws from the inside. The condition became known as radium jaw.

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    Chich the witch
    Community Member
    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have read that the owners did know there was a danger but you know - profits.

    Debby Keir
    Community Member
    17 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and the matchstick girls with phossy jaw.

    #28

    Group of prisoners wearing striped uniforms and hats, smiling and waving behind a barbed wire fence, vintage black and white photo

    Children in Dachau concentration camp cheer the arrival of American troops in April 1945.

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    azubi
    Community Member
    16 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And there are the perpetrators again, saying that it never happened and that they will do it again.

    #29

    Black and white photo of a man sitting among stone structures with a crescent shape, intriguing random pictures to explore.

    After being left the night before his wedding, Ed Leedskalnin migrated to America and bought land in Florida. For the next 3 decades, the 100-pound Latvian built a 2.2 million pound wonder known as Coral Castle. To this day, no one knows how he carved and stacked 1,000 tons of stony coral by himself

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    Hobby Hopper
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    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They do know. We have pictures and eye-witness accounts that confirm Leedskalnin used primitive tools such as pulleys, tripod cranes, levers, and wedges. The limestone blocks he used were quarried himself from right next to his construction. Still an astounding feat.

    Gia SDP
    Community Member
    19 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've been there and it's absolutely incredible.

    #30

    Man sitting shirtless by water with helicopter overhead and people near burning shore in random pictures worth exploring.

    Filming Apocalypse Now was so physically, mentally, and financially exhausting that Francis Ford Coppola had numerous breakdowns on the Philippines set in 1976. Dennis Hopper's drug use, Martin Sheen's binge-drinking, and Marlon Brando refusing to learn his lines all contributed to the film's chaos.

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    sbj
    Community Member
    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And in spite of all this it is one of the greatest films ever to be made

    Norfolk and good
    Community Member
    16 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you haven't already watch The Offer. A dramatisation of the making of The Godfather, another Coppola classic.

    Austzn
    Community Member
    17 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Understandable, its a heavy movie just to watch.

    #31

    Two women practicing ballet outdoors, one stretching leg with assistance, set in a natural park scene with a dog nearby.

    In 1954, a young Julie Andrews practiced ballet with her Aunt Joan Wells, who ran a dance studio.

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    sbj
    Community Member
    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The dog couldn't be less interested

    Sarah Suelzle
    Community Member
    20 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a lovely photo! I have never seen her this young 🩷

    #32

    Man standing outdoors next to a gigantic set of antlers, one of the random pictures worth going down a rabbit hole for

    In September 2018, a pair of fishermen in Northern Ireland reeled in a 6-foot-wide elk skull from the bottom of a lake. It turned out to be over 10,000 years old and from an extinct species known as the Irish Elk.

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    #33

    Two women in vintage swimsuits standing outdoors on grass, a random picture worth going down a rabbit hole for.

    German World War II era lesbian couple. Felice Schragenheim, a Jewish resistance fighter and Lilly Wust, mother of 4, wife of a Wehrmacht member. Hours after these photos were taken Felice was captured. She did not survive the war. Lilly never forgot Felice

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    Shanaaia
    Community Member
    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aimee und Jaguar - their life as a film

    Rebecca O’Donnell
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    20 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you tap on the name on the lower left side of the above picture you can read the full story. Heartbreaking and fascinating!

    #34

    Close-up of a white tiger with unusual facial expression and tongue out in a cage, a random picture worth exploring.

    In the early days of social media, Kenny the white tiger became a viral sensation for allegedly having down syndrome. But the truth was much darker: Kenny was the result of repeated inbreeding by for-profit animal breeders. He suffered for most of his life and died when he was only 10 years old.

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    G A
    Community Member
    2 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    White Tigers are a highly inbred population and they have no conservation value. They should be allowed to die out. In fact most US tigers are mongrels of cross bred subspecies and largely useless for breeding and maintaining the wild population, due to greedy breeders keeping them as status 'pets'.

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    Hugo
    Community Member
    22 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That would be a fairly normal age in the wild, but in captivity tigers are more likely to live to 20.

    G A
    Community Member
    2 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not when they are that fvcked up. He wouldn't have survived infancy.

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    #35

    Snow-covered urban scene with a person standing near a lit apartment building, a random picture worth going down a rabbit hole for.

    Sixty miles southeast of Anchorage is Whittier, a remote Alaskan town where all 272 residents live in the same building. Designed to be self-sufficient because of the region's extreme climate, the 14 story Begich Towers has a school, hospital, grocery store, and police department all under one roof.

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    Jan Rosier
    Community Member
    22 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    hello 911? there's been a collision in the hallway of the sixth floor...

    Judy Reynolds
    Community Member
    19 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How long for the first responders to get there?

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    Tango Wox
    Community Member
    8 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've actually been there, but not in the main building, we had a ship that departed from the port there.

    G A
    Community Member
    2 hours ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Must be better to have all that sweet sweet heat in the top floor from below....

    Lee Gilliland
    Community Member
    Premium
    10 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Honestly, if you live in this environment it makes sense.

    #36

    Stone castle with unique towers and arches surrounded by trees, a random picture worth going down a rabbit hole for.

    In 1959, 15-year-old Jim Bishop bought 2.5 acres of land in Rye, Colorado for $1,250. Over the next six decades, he single-handedly built a 160 foot tall palace known as Bishop Castle that features a cathedral, sprawling spiral staircases, and a fire-breathing dragon made of recycled hot plates.

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    Owen
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    1 day ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel this needs its own article.

    UnclePanda
    Community Member
    20 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then you're on the wrong webpage. Wikipedia has a nice entry and better pictures.

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    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder how he had that much money at 15 - inflation makes it equivalent to a lot more in today's dollars, at least 10 k.

    Drop Bear from Hell
    Community Member
    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is all forms of awesome....such cleverness.

    Otto Katz
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    19 hours ago

    This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1_2NLhXH35s

    Hugo
    Community Member
    22 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1 hectare, nearly 50 m tall.

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    #37

    Black and white photo of three people in rustic clothing standing outdoors in a forest, a random picture worth exploring.

    In 1978, Soviet geologists discovered a family living in complete isolation deep in Siberia. The Lykovs had fled Stalin’s persecution in 1936 and, for 42 years, survived without any human contact, technology, or knowledge that World War II had even happened.

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    Otto Katz
    Community Member
    19 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They left because of their religion (not specified, according to wiki). They also had limited contact with the outside world, so may have had knowledge of WWII

    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nevertheless, respect is due for their determination and courage.

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    Sarah Suelzle
    Community Member
    15 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Lykovs learning about WWII..."so that's what that noise was" 😊

    #38

    Split image showing an animated character with a pistol and an old sketch with a hidden double image effect for random pictures.

    John Ratcliffe, Jamestown’s governor and the real-life inspiration for Disney’s Pocahontas villain, died a horrific death. After being tricked and captured, Pamunkey women cut away his skin with mussel shells, burning each piece as he watched. They saved his face for last, then burned him alive.

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    #39

    Three identical men with curly hair wearing striped sweaters sitting together, a random picture worth going down a rabbit hole for.

    Identical triplet brothers, separated at birth, unexpectedly reunited while attending the same college

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    Orchidoclaste
    Community Member
    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Deliberately separated. For experimental purposes. Not so great a story

    cecilia kilian
    Community Member
    20 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The documentary, "Three Identical Strangers", tells their story.

    Shark Lady
    Community Member
    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Quite a few twins and triplets were split up so psychologists could study the nature/nurture debate.

    Iampenny
    Community Member
    19 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Quite a sad story too, all three of them suffered mental health problems and Eddy ending up committing s*****e.

    Spidercat
    Community Member
    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where's the Spiderman meme when you need it...

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    #40

    Group of barefoot children and an adult standing in a line outdoors, evoking curiosity in random pictures worth exploring.

    A family in Harmans, Maryland pays respect as Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train passes through their town on June 8, 1968.

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    Sally Moen
    Community Member
    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dirty knees and all. We don't get funeral trains anymore, do we?

    Debby Keir
    Community Member
    17 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They had one for Queeh Elizabeth II (who was taken by air, but the train was for mourners from Balmoral to London) - en route, a load of excavators bowed to the train, and she was accompanied by tractors to the station at Balmoral.

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    Sue User
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    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My bus driver stopped tge bus when the motorcade taking Reagan to San Simeon drove by.

    Barbara Wilcock
    Community Member
    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sorry. I don't understand the level of dress code

    Lost Panda
    Community Member
    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like there might be a creek or river behind the foilage. The kids might have been swimming/playing in it while they waited for the train.

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    Dar Mal
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    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ahhh...the days before fast food...

    Yora Belle End
    Community Member
    13 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The American "TV Dinner" was invented in 1953 and sold in 1954. McDonalds was founded in 1940 and then franchised in 1955. This was the era of fast food. So I don't understand your comment? care to explain?

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    G A
    Community Member
    2 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Think I'd have to bend over and give the Trump one a big ol' mooney on the joyous day when he carks it.

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    #41

    Black and white photo of two young children in school uniforms, a random picture worth going down a rabbit hole for.

    Twin sisters June and Jennifer Gibbons, known as “The Silent Twins,” refused to speak to anyone but each other, communicating in a secret language for nearly 30 years. Then, immediately after Jennifer’s sudden death in 1993, June began to speak freely for the first time in her life.

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    Ace
    Community Member
    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not a happy story. They were sentenced, as children, to indefinite detention at Broadmoor, the most secure psychiatric hospital in Britain, home to many infamous murderers.

    Hugo
    Community Member
    22 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Broadmoor was a hospital for the criminally insane. My great-aunt's husband was incarcerated there after attacking her with a knife. So what crime did these sisters commit?

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    Lee Gilliland
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    10 hours ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many identical twins have a secret language early in life they abandon about the time they start school.

    Lynchamigsakta
    Community Member
    16 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well this is just not true. They had a couple of distinct speech impediment and people couldn't understand them. The full story is a lot more interesting and quite heartbreaking . They also wrote obsessively so they certainly communicated with others

    #42

    Firefighter in uniform holding smiling toddler, a random picture people say is worth going down a rabbit hole for.

    On 9/11, firefighter Scott Davidson — father of comedian Pete Davidson — raced with Ladder 118 across the Brooklyn Bridge toward the burning Twin Towers. Minutes later, he and five crewmates were killed while evacuating the Marriott World Trade Center hotel as the North Tower collapsed on top of it.

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    Moving Enigma
    Community Member
    19 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And ICE recently arrested a firefighter in front of his colleagues as they were fighting a huge forest fire, classy.

    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    17 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What do you expect from the people who want to join ICE ?

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    #43

    Vintage black and white portrait of a woman with long hair in a dress, one of the random pictures worth going down a rabbit hole for

    In Victorian England, asylums housed everyone from serial killers to the disabled to the mentally ill — a dangerous combination compounded by the government encouraging the public to visit and observe patients like a zoo. These are portraits of some the patients confined to these institutions.

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    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some girls were put in there for the 'crime' of having a child out of wedlock. There is no record of any fathers being punished, however.

    Lee Gilliland
    Community Member
    Premium
    10 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not to mention those women who refused to obey their husbands.

    #44

    Two police officers in uniform standing by a gate looking stressed in a random pictures rabbit hole moment.

    Police officers react after seeing the crime scene inside Andrea Yates house in the Houston suburb of Clear Lake City, Texas. On June 20, 2001, she waited for her husband to leave for work before drowning her five children one by one in the family bathtub.

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    not a sock
    Community Member
    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    she got severe postnatal depression with her pregnancies and doctor strongly advised against her getting pregnant again, but each time her ultra religious husband would force her to have another and another and another. she's come up for parole hearings but refuses to attend them and instead remains in prison. it's all so g*****n sad.

    A Young Hag
    Community Member
    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She and her psychiatrist told husband and mother in-law she should not have more children and should not be left with them alone due to extreme post partum depression and psychosis. But their religion knew better. Tragedy that could be avoided.

    Sue User
    Community Member
    12 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Theere should be a way to help get people out if these dituations, with the kids.

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    Rob D
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    22 hours ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Glad to see other commenters are pointing to religion for its due role in this.

    Smeghead Tribble Down Under
    Community Member
    20 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fkn religious bullcr.ap >.< When will people wake up?

    #45

    Black and white vintage photo showing four children sitting on stairs beside a sign for sale, illustrating random pictures.

    The haunting “4 Children For Sale” photograph from 1948 captured a Chicago mother, Lucille Chalifoux, hiding her face as her four young children sat beneath a sign offering them for sale. Within two years, all of them — including the unborn baby she carried — were placed with different families.

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    sbj
    Community Member
    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How bloody awful the hardship that this family had to endure

    Bryn
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    17 hours ago

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    The aftermath: https://tucson.com/news/local/sold-as-kids-their-lives-now-converge/article_f4fe5e61-f226-5a63-96f9-270154a02545.html

    Robyn Hill
    Community Member
    5 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At least two of these children ended up in a very a*****e home. They were essentially trafficked. The parents could put a roof over their own heads, but not afford their kids? I have zero sympathy for them.

    Kid Murray
    Community Member
    16 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why? In 1938, sure.1948 was a time of unparalleled prosperity. I'm having trouble coming up with a legitimate reason why someone would be desperately poor during the postwar boom in a big city. There was a mild recession that started in late 1948 but it was nowhere near bad enough to account for this.

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    #46

    Ancient geoglyph carved into mossy hillside, showcasing mysterious random picture worth exploring in detail.

    At least 26 petroglyphs — some dating upwards of 1,000-years-old — have become visible by shifting sands on a beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

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    #47

    Old worn shoe being inspected with blue gloves, revealing hidden text inside, a random picture worth going down a rabbit hole for.

    While renovating the Auschwitz memorial in July 2020, workers found a tattered pair of children's shoes with a handwritten note inside. Experts soon learned that the shoes belonged to a six-year-old Czech boy named Amos Steinberg, who was sent to the Nazi concentration camp alongside his mother.

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    Rob D
    Community Member
    22 hours ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thankfully we don't have the stomach for concentration camps anymore (I say that, but they tried to open one right here in everglades, FL this year). But know the spirit lives on every time a family gets broken up and deported without any due process. It's functionally the modern equivalent to "putting them on the train...". Know this of your maga supporting friends and family. The scene in Schindler's list of the little girl sneering "bye Jews"... Go to yahoo/fox news comments on any deportation story...friggin scary.

    TACO Don's Authentic TexMex
    Community Member
    7 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why not? The world needs to remember. Too many people have forgotten, look at the US

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    #48

    Man in yellow sweater carrying child on shoulders on street with vintage car and crowds, intriguing random pictures to explore

    A father and son pose for a photo beside a car in Omagh, Northern Ireland — unaware it’s packed with explosives and about to blow. Moments later, the car exploded and killed the photographer who took the photo, along with 28 other people, in the Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland on August 15, 1998.

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    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Politics + religion = m****r.

    Sam Trudeau
    Community Member
    17 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on the religion. Sometimes it's the religious who are the targets. Like China and Buddhism, or that one thing with Judaism, or the many years when Christianity was unjustly outlawed

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    #49

    Vintage family portrait with members dressed in white, an intriguing random picture worth going down a rabbit hole for.

    A Colorized Photo Of Grigori Rasputin With The Last Empress Of Russia And Her Five Children In 1908

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    Angela B
    Community Member
    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Photographer: "Look natural" Rasputin: Photographer: "Wait"

    Lynchamigsakta
    Community Member
    16 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ra ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen

    Chewie Baron
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    13 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was a shame how he carried on.

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    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Britain is still shamed by refusing to let the Tsar and family go there in 1917

    #50

    Vintage car window with a unique Thermador ice cooler attachment, a quirky random picture worth exploring further.

    This is an early automobile air conditioner, popular from the 1930s through to the 1960s. Water inside the cooler evaporates and in the process transfers heat from the surrounding air to evaporate the water, giving in return cool moisture-laden air inside

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    UnclePanda
    Community Member
    20 hours ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the 60s and 70s, we shifted to 4-60 air conditioning - four windows down and going 60 mph.

    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And doggo with his head out of a window, blocking the view in the mirror but happy anyway

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