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We often forget what a wondrous world we live in. While getting caught up in our hectic schedules makes us oblivious to things around us, today we're gonna zoom in on the unseen and unnoticed side of things.

So welcome to Bored Panda’s amusing collection of the most fascinating and rarely seen objects, beings, places, occurrences, and everything that will bring out that inner curious child we have inside.

From a macro shot revealing the density of penguin feathers to rainbow cloud spotting, this is something you only see in a video game. Or if you open your eyes and pay attention. Psst! More incredible photos of rarely seen things can be found in our previous posts here, here and here.

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When It’s Cold Enough To See The Melody

When It’s Cold Enough To See The Melody

Kathrin Swoboda Photography , Kathrin Swoboda Photography Report

#2

Spotted A Rainbow Cloud From My Balcony. Not As Beautiful As Aurora But Pretty Rare To See Such Phenomena In India

Spotted A Rainbow Cloud From My Balcony. Not As Beautiful As Aurora But Pretty Rare To See Such Phenomena In India

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This Is What Sunset Looks Like From Space

This Is What Sunset Looks Like From Space

Astro_Alex Report

Even in times of scientific and technological advancements, our beautiful planet remains full of mysteries. From the incredible bismuth crystal that looks like it came from some sort of sci-fi film to the enchanting glowing forest in Japan with its luminescent mushrooms scattered along the forest floor, there are so many exquisite finds on Earth. They make us question how much about the place we inhabit we don’t really know.

Some of the most standout mysteries that have been captivating the imagination of many throughout the years include Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. The structure consists of a ring of standing stones, with each stone standing approximately thirteen feet high, seven feet wide and weighing 25 tons. It’s believed to have been built about 5000 years ago, but scholars still do not agree on what its purpose could have been.

Another mysterious object is the stone spheres found in Costa Rica, located on the Diquis Delta and on Isla del Cano. There are over three hundred petro spheres scattered throughout the country that are still considered a great, unsolved archaeological mystery. The heaviest of them weighs many tons, and they’re believed to be made of granodiorite.

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Here Are My Removed & Genetically Modified White Blood Cells, About To Be Put Back In To Hopefully Cure My Cancer

Here Are My Removed & Genetically Modified White Blood Cells, About To Be Put Back In To Hopefully Cure My Cancer

This Is T-Cell Immunotherapy

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#5

Not A Painting - Just An Iceberg Flipped Upside Down

Not A Painting - Just An Iceberg Flipped Upside Down

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Helen Haley
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My berg became flipped turned upside down, I'd like to take a minute just float right here. Big ol iceberg floating with its butt in the air.

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Finally Got My Prosthetics In

Finally Got My Prosthetics In

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#9

Ice Eggs - This Rare Phenomenon Occurs When Ice Is Rolled Over By Wind And Water (Northern Finland)

Ice Eggs - This Rare Phenomenon Occurs When Ice Is Rolled Over By Wind And Water (Northern Finland)

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#10

Nappies In Sweden Have A Father On The Packaging

Nappies In Sweden Have A Father On The Packaging

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Miss Cris
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is it rare because it's a man and not a woman? Where is it like this? In Spain there aren't women (mothers, aunts, granies) represented in this products, only babies.

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#12

This Huge Tree In Cairo

This Huge Tree In Cairo

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#13

Highway To Heaven. 30-Second Long Exposure Of Airliner Departing From Runway

Highway To Heaven. 30-Second Long Exposure Of Airliner Departing From Runway

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#15

Truck Door Handle On A Frosty Morning

Truck Door Handle On A Frosty Morning

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#16

My Dad Got A Periodic Table With The Actual Elements In It

My Dad Got A Periodic Table With The Actual Elements In It

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Steve Barnett
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Goes without saying that not all the elements are actually there. Hence the Ionizing radiation hazard symbols.

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#17

A Pistachio Plant

A Pistachio Plant

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Samantha PandaNotBored
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like a beautiful bunch of roses or tulips . I couldn’t cut them down , they’d stay 😁

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#18

The Sun Hit This Freshly-Paved Tarmac Just Right And Made A Real-Life Rainbow Road Through Polarized Lenses

The Sun Hit This Freshly-Paved Tarmac Just Right And Made A Real-Life Rainbow Road Through Polarized Lenses

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Miss Cris
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now I'd like to wear polarized glasses wherever just to find hidden rainbows.

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#20

Amazing Jimbacrinus Crinoid Fossils

Amazing Jimbacrinus Crinoid Fossils

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#21

What A Piece Of 10,000-Year-Old Glacial Ice Looks Like

What A Piece Of 10,000-Year-Old Glacial Ice Looks Like

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#22

This Close Up Shot Of A Dragonfly I Took With My Phone The Other Day

This Close Up Shot Of A Dragonfly I Took With My Phone The Other Day

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#23

Just When You Thought You’d Seen Everything - Here’s Snowball, An Extremely Rare Leucistic Alligator

Just When You Thought You’d Seen Everything - Here’s Snowball, An Extremely Rare Leucistic Alligator

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#24

My Hair Is Half Blonde Half Brunette. Including Eyebrows

My Hair Is Half Blonde Half Brunette. Including Eyebrows

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#25

Horses On A Plane

Horses On A Plane

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#26

Certain Fish Skin Can Be Grafted Onto Burns And Diabetic Wounds. The Material Recruits The Body's Own Cells And Is Converted Eventually Into Living Tissue

Certain Fish Skin Can Be Grafted Onto Burns And Diabetic Wounds. The Material Recruits The Body's Own Cells And Is Converted Eventually Into Living Tissue

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Gin. No tonic
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's tilapia skin. The very common, quite cheap white fish that you can find in the supermarket freezer (at least in Europe)

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A B C
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What the heck? I'm curious, does anybody have a link to some mor information? I'm not quite sure what keywords I should be looking for.

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Becky Klebe
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

try tilapia graft - this was the top hit when I tried - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6565829/

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Izzy_
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's insane! Mermaid transformation! But seriously, that's amazing they can help heal burn victims

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John C
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's really great, but who was the first person to try this?

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Crouching hippo hidden panda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How did anyone ever stumble across this discovery? Like one day decided to whack some fish scales on a burn…

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Yort
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At first I thought this picture was JUST legs, because I couldn’t really see that it was like matching green sheets covering the person’s pelvis.

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Lucky2BAlive
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is clearly abroad since it’s widely known that U of Boston grows synthetic skin (it’s real but they call it that for other reasons) for full thickness moderate percentages of skin necessary.

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Lauren Poole
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is false information - the fish skin is used like a dressing and eventually removed. It helps the healing process more effectively than cloth dressings and bandages as the the fish skin is similar in many ways to human skin such as being high in collagen

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Pamela Scott
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It doesn't actually convert the living skin it is eventually replaced as the patients body grows new skin. This grafted tissue keeps the wound from being open till then.

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Glynna Bowood
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG! I have never seen or heard of this ! Tilapia comes from a lot of polluted rivers so I hope these are grown in fish farms!!

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SparkleDew
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

kind of disturbing...but good for the person receiving successful treatment

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isabell gibson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

MERMAID...3rd grade me would have died and thought that i could accually be turned into one

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Dawn Birdsong Olmsted
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it is more likely human skin, probably from the patient themselves. The skin is removed from a healthy area, then cut and expanded. The skin will grow toward itself to a certain extent and fill in.

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Judy Callaway
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is for real! I looked it up! Search tilapia skin graft if you are a nonbeliever 😊

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MuddyPuddles
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it works because tilapia have very high levels of collagen proteins - I learned that from watching House

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Toddo Colorado
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While they were doing that I walked over to a place called the Oyster Bar A real dive But I knew the owner He used to play for the Dolphins I said, "Hi, Gil!" You hafta yell, he's hard of herring

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ThePanInPanda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I ever need a skin graft, I'll be asking for this. Mermaid legs!

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Colleen Russo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What a wonderful bit of information for diabetics in need of ulcers to heal. Try a wound VAC too the quick healing of diabetic open wounds.

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Marsha Scott
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank God we've found a solution for massive burns or wounds. It is a wonderful thing to see that we have come this far in medicine that we have a "substitute" skin that will suffice until the body can manufacture it's own.

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Boopsie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am so glad there is something instead of bandages that have to be replaced daily.

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Eliyanah Arends
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The transformation has started... In approximately 24 hours you will be a fish

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Jennifer Morgan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would never have believed, had I not seen. Thank you, I hope you are healing quickly 💕

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Aélia Potter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ariel found how to become human without giving away her voice

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Theo Triumphman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw how they raise tilapia in asian countries. Human poo is fed from above the fish holding pen. Gross !. Others are fed so much antibiotics, I never ate tilapia again !

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Kimlan Lau
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes @Gin.No tonic, it is Tilapia, it is also farmed here in the West Indies. I saw several articles which stated that the treatment was created in Brazil. Not sure of the accuracy.

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Emma Collins
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd love to see how it looks when healed properly! Amazing 💛

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Sarah Geiser
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whomever discovered this to be a healing prospect- has my everlasting respect! This is Brilliant..!!

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Judy Snow
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is one person who has never worn high heels! Makes my toes feel good just to see them. Go barefoot!

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Kathy Jaynes
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a huge area to be grafted. It's great they don't have to use the patient's own normal skin.

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debi singer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had this put on me to help my Venous Ulcer heal. To tell the Truth it did Not help my ulcer heal. I believe it works better on Skin Burns! Mine didn’t look that dark or really fishy look like this picture does.

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Mazer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tilapia are also raised to clean up farmed fish, fish tanks. A multi-tasking fish

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Shirley Heyn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just how do they figure this stuff out? Who would ever agree to be the first patient to try this?

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Vicki Perizzolo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it's amazing how well it works on burns - not just on humans either - it benefits all living things with 'skin' that needs help. very cool

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Jane Petersen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, wound treatment is produced in Iceland using Icelandic cod.

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Geri Taran
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a new respect for tilapia, which, previously, I have only fed to my cats and my dog.

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Sandy Dyer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen a very show on TV where they used this on a severely burned dog, with incredible healing results. In didn't know they used same technique on people,. Really awesome!

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⭐Onyx (they/them)⭐
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This reminds me of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. If you know, you know

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Tomorrow Girl
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't know people can be mermaids too. 🧜‍♀️🧜‍♂️🧜

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Mazer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This would kill me, I am highly allergic to fish. Cool tho, reminds me of fishnet stockings, super popular around WW2

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Catherine McKenzie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pretty sure the fish that was born with that skin had more right to it than a human did

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This Pencil Store In Tehran, Iran

This Pencil Store In Tehran, Iran

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#28

The Density Of Penguin Feathers

The Density Of Penguin Feathers

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Astronaut Bruce McCandless Floating Away From The Safety Of The Space Shuttle

Astronaut Bruce McCandless Floating Away From The Safety Of The Space Shuttle

He had nothing but his manned maneuvering unit keeping him from drifting into the unknown. First person in history to do something like this.

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Sendai Daikannon, One Of The Tallest Statues In The World

Sendai Daikannon, One Of The Tallest Statues In The World

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M Calad
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am fascinated by the optical effect of the design. The statue is not at full body length, it's around 3/4, missing the bottom 1/4. This makes the brain believe that the statue goes lower (like if the legs of the statue extended down), therefore it's perceived longer than it actually is. How cool!

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The Color Of My Kitten's Foot Is Split Down The Middle

The Color Of My Kitten's Foot Is Split Down The Middle

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This Red Only Rainbow I Saw At Midnight In Finland

This Red Only Rainbow I Saw At Midnight In Finland

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#34

My Cactus Has Grown A Strange-Looking Flower

My Cactus Has Grown A Strange-Looking Flower

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Karl Leaning
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ahh, a dead rubbish bin plant. my mother used to grow one of these in the bathroom when I was a child. the flower smelt like a unwashed rubbish bin that had been left in sun for a week...

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#35

In Case You Haven't Seen Spider Feet Up Close

In Case You Haven't Seen Spider Feet Up Close

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#36

We Got These Giant Screws In At Work Today For Mounting Solar Panels

We Got These Giant Screws In At Work Today For Mounting Solar Panels

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#37

The UK Is Full Of Charming Crinkle Crankle Garden Walls

The UK Is Full Of Charming Crinkle Crankle Garden Walls

In England you sometimes see these "wavy" brick fences. And curious as it may seem, this shape uses fewer bricks than a straight wall. A straight wall needs at least two layers of bricks to make it sturdy, but the wavy wall is fine thanks to the arch support provided by the waves.

praxis_builders , GeographBot Report

#38

The Back Of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa

The Back Of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa

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#40

In Case You Have Not Seen What A Clump Of Dna Looks Like

In Case You Have Not Seen What A Clump Of Dna Looks Like

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#41

Giant Puffball Mushroom My Sister Found In The Woods

Giant Puffball Mushroom My Sister Found In The Woods

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#42

Mosaics Of A Roman Villa Were Found Under A Vineyard In Negrar, Italy

Mosaics Of A Roman Villa Were Found Under A Vineyard In Negrar, Italy

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#43

This Device Is Used To Measure Lengths On Maps. Simply Roll It Along Streets You Want To Use And It Tells You The Distance

This Device Is Used To Measure Lengths On Maps. Simply Roll It Along Streets You Want To Use And It Tells You The Distance

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Maiun
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandad worked for British Ordnance Survey in the 1950s and 60s, he went out, measured the landscape and then hand drew maps. When he died, we cleared out his home studio and I found at least 6 of these in various draws, boxes etc. I remember sitting with him as a child running them over maps to see where we were in relation to landmarks etc. I still love looking at maps 30 years after his death as it reminds me of the gentle, kind soul he was.

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#44

Ants Gutted My Almond To Make Their Own Almond Flour

Ants Gutted My Almond To Make Their Own Almond Flour

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#45

When My Cat Got Spayed, The Shaved Area Grew Back Chocolate Coloured

When My Cat Got Spayed, The Shaved Area Grew Back Chocolate Coloured

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#46

A Hand Of A Koala

A Hand Of A Koala

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Sheila McEnany Markowitz
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Koalas have human-like fingerprints. They are almost identical, and even under a microscope, it is hard to distinguish the difference between theirs and those of humans.

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This Apple's Flesh Is The Same Colour As It’s Skin

This Apple's Flesh Is The Same Colour As It’s Skin

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Karl Baxter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I made cider from apples like this. It came out bright pink and checked in at a hefty 8.5% abv. We named it “Prider”, put it in a rainbow box and served it up during Pride Week about 6 years ago. 60 pints sold out in about an hour! 🙂

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414-Pound Gorilla On The Exam Table

414-Pound Gorilla On The Exam Table

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#49

$12,000 Worth Of Cancer Pills

$12,000 Worth Of Cancer Pills

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's disgusting. Charging so much for life saving medication is sick and twisted.

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