50 Interesting Facts And Stories From Around The World, Backed Up By Pics To Prove Them (New Pics)

Neat.

Took long enough!!

Religious fanatics, no matter whether Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, or Christian are a blight

That's so cool !

This is heartwarming. I hate Little Caesars pizza, but have a new affection for it's founder. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Beautiful

Brave woman.

This is much more likely to get your protest heard than those who shut down roads (including Sydney harbour bridge) even when told not to or use it as an excuse to get violent or racist.

For the nitwit doubting this, there's a thing called Google where you can look it up for yourself to see that this is indeed a true story, so you don't end up spouting a lot of blather, looking ignorant and getting down voted into oblivion.

Friend of mine did that in Arizona and came back to a sleeping mountain lion. Additional lesson he learned, don't use an air horn to wake a sleeping mountain lion in your truck, it's hell on the apholstery! :)

You go girl!!

Those fake doors are also to keep away Jehovah Witnesses.

Apt.

I'm sure that as part of their training, holding their breath for at least 3 minutes underwater is no problem.

That's really pretty.

I love that it's hereditary. Both mother and child look awesome.

Looks like a Van Gogh painting.

I know a man and a woman who both wanted kids but they never found a serious partner to make that commitment. They decided to buy a house and have kids together although there was never any romantic feeling between them, they were just best friends. The kids were explained the situation and they actually said how happy they were because so many of their classmates had parents who fought and/or got divorced but their parents didn't have those issues.

Lasoasis. Although that also sounds medical somehow.

There is also one off the coast of California. Named Frosty!

Sad…

That would be an enormous head were it real.

Back in the days before bananas became the accepted scale measurement

Is the teacher Miss Marple?

Solo garlic. It's a start, still not enough.

You can still buy an install them.

Chrysina limbata, a type of scarab beetle, only found in Costa Rica and Panama (according to the original thread). Its very pretty.

The hedgehog is kìlling me 🤣🤣🤣

Let’s hope this is as close as we get…

I hope she said yes! 🤞💍❤️

So Paris moved country

My vote is for JW

Hope they win!!!

Well... Hell. I've seen videos of tigers on the wild attacking people and are barely noticeable to humans anyway.. Being a deer sucks

🎵 everybody was kung fu fighting 🎵

Even Australia, which is a similar size, has more trains.

That just says so much about why America is in fact a backward nation. Note also to the east, over there by Moscow. Lookin' like 'Murica.

The big automakers lobbied against the trains. They won.

Yes, because no one is going to fund the building of railroad tracks through thousands of miles of literally nothing. avz219sjyn...ac-png.jpg

To be fair, there isn't much going on in large parts of the US.

I don't understand why we (US) don't have more. I guess the AFF rules them out!

Yes, people in the U.S. would rather b---h and moan about the price of gas than take the train. Check this out: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/316026098827735608/

We used to have more rail, but we tore it up for "freedom".

The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, amended in 1863, 1864, and 1865, authorized the federal government to grant lands directly to corporations, rather than through states, for the construction of transcontinental railroads. Benefits for Railroads: Land grants provided a valuable source of capital for railroad companies, allowing them to sell or use the land as collateral for loans. Controversy: Land grants were not without controversy, as they often involved taking land from Native American tribes and raising questions about land speculation and potential monopolies. All passenger trains, including Amtrak, are required to yield right-of-way to freight trains, which makes them even slower.

Well, Europe is much smaller and has also been "settled" far longer than the US

Ya but look at train deaths from the USA to Europe, so who is better?

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They had their day in the US but more modern technologies took their place.

Sure hope Baily is potty trained lol

Aww poor lil guy.

Chiropractors must have done a roaring trade!

So not so different from already famous people...?

How did the artist tattooed that without vomiting ?

Was one of the last. With anti vaccers being elected we may need to dust these off again.

Its a bullfrog tadpole. The person who found it gave it to the South Western Research Station where it lived in an aquarium and never got its legs. So at least they looked after him. He was found in the mud at the bottom of a pond, so maybe an aquarium with plenty of algae was decent accommodation.

I was there on a school trip, some of the piles taller than me. I may be small, 1m60, but still it's tall for piles of garbage. (Also I was 100% on their side)

This is very common in North Yorkshire castles