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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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#1
When It’s Cold Enough To See The Melody
A B C 4 years ago
I smoke quite rarely, but when I do, I'm always trying to blow rings. I can't get anything as good as this bird who just wants to get laid though, lol
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Andy Acceber 4 years ago
We know birds are descended from dinosaurs. We know, in some regions, dinosaur fossils formed the basis of dragon lore. So, I can only conclude, this must be the basis for the iconic fire-breathing dragons. =)
Kimber Pritty 4 years ago (edited)
Is it just me?! In looking at the "breath" in the top photo I see the image of a bird, closest to its beak...but the image on the right reminds me of a dinosaur, head raised, mouth open?! 😁
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#2
Spotted A Rainbow Cloud From My Balcony. Not As Beautiful As Aurora But Pretty Rare To See Such Phenomena In India
Vic 4 years ago
Till last month I didn't know of them, and then I saw 2 in a span of 15 days. Looked really cool! :-)
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#3
This Is What Sunset Looks Like From Space
Russell Ellwardt 3 years ago
"Astro-Alex" is the German NASA astronaut Alexander Gerst, who recently spent several months on the ISS. He is also an avid amateur photographer. His photos taken from the ISS have gone viral, at least in his home country. You may want to check out his Flickr account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_alex/
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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.
#4
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
GSMountainWolf 3 years ago (edited)
@wandlutz, nobody cares and nobody asked. Being kind is important in any situation, and letting people know that you care tells everyone that you are a nice person. If you can’t say something nice, don’t say it at all and let it go
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She is fine btw, treatment worked - https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/kkrerj/hi_remember_me_the_white_blood_cell_immunotherapy/
Ivana 4 years ago
Immunotherapy is freaking amazing. I worked in oncology research and we had some patients with stage 4 lung cancer living for years. Also, had these rats that we gave the treatment to and none of them developed cancer while all of the rats without the treatment did. So basically created a vaccination. Can't wait until the clinical trials for some of them are done and available to all patients.
Susan Wood 4 years ago
My husband will be starting a trial tomorrow where they modify his bone marrow and create a vaccine to inject it back into him in hopes of stopping his smoldering multiple myeloma from ever progressing. Look up MD Anderson Moonshots program.
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Carmen Sandiego 4 years ago
Good luck! I don't usually do superstitions but if it helps have a four leaf clover.🍀Fingers crossed🤞🏽
#5
Not A Painting - Just An Iceberg Flipped Upside Down
Helen Haley 4 years ago
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.
Crazy Meerkat Lady 4 years ago
I am not the only one who read that in Will's voice 😂
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John C 4 years ago
At first I was like "WTF are the stupid ppl doing" but then I realized they're penguins, so then I was like "WTF are the stupid penguins doing"
Amy Pontious 3 years ago
I really love your comment I was thinking the same thing!
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Otter 4 years ago
I've been to Antarctica, and yes! Everywhere you get a few penguins together it looks like a party. They're very social, like a whole species of noisy neighbors.
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Mad Dragon 4 years ago
Penguins. They dove off as the berg started to flip, and are now back and ready to resume the party.
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bdunbar@kcls.org 4 years ago
It's so weird and beautiful when ice gets so thick it's blue. Bella!
Never Stop Learning 4 years ago
Google "striped icebergs". They are very beautiful!
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This Albino Peacock I Saw In Malaysia
Kawaii Hippotato (She/her) 4 years ago
At first I thought your emoji was a broccoli, idk why
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cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
You are right, it's just a genetic mutation from the blue one, it's leucism, not albinism. Near my place in France you can buy a white peacock couple for 300euros (200 for the blue one, and 800 for the burmese one). The burmese is almost mute so it's better for the neighbors... Nobody needs to hear a 108db alarm/babyscream (a plane taking off is 120db) when Mr Peacock want to mate.
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Mariam Gad 4 years ago
Actually this peacock is not albino and is actually a different breed of peacock that just lacks pigment, if you look closely the tail feathers (or train) it looks off (the shape of the eye spot is not the same as a normal Indian peafowl) also albino animal have red eyes which by looking at it it doesn’t look like it does. Beautiful bird tho.
#7
Finally Got My Prosthetics In
Dingo Person 4 years ago
I can only imagine how fun that would be if you could pretend to be wolverine
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Yvette Desmarais 4 years ago
Would be really cool if they had interchangeable tips. Pen. Screwdriver. Laxer pointer. Computer mouse.
John C 4 years ago
I was going to make a comment along the lines of Star Wars / Vader / Luke (cause Lucas seems to have a fascination with ppl losing their limbs) but then I realized that up until now, without the prosthetics, dude has been flashing the "hang loose" sign (with thumb and pinkie) by default!
Otter 4 years ago
If I lived in the Star Wars universe during the Republic era, I'd definitely go into the prosthetic limb business! Of course, I'd go lose everything after Order 66, when people stopped fighting with light sabers.
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Noelle 4 years ago
My daughter would love these! She misses the index- and middle finger of het right hand.
#8
Bioluminescent Phytoplankton In The Persian Gulf
J Charby 4 years ago
They'll glow more too that way, they also react to movement
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TonyTee 3 years ago
Yeah right, never in all my days have I seen a sky that beautiful, God how I wish on that beach at that exact moment with a beautiful girl right by my side
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B 4 years ago
First time I ever saw this was on a beach in South Africa. Absolutely beautiful IRL.
WillemPenn 4 years ago
First time I ever saw was when I was using the head on a sailboat late at night. The plumbing used sea water and as soon as I started peeing the water lit up. Totally freaked me out at 3 am in the pitch dark. :-D Very beautiful though.
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Natasha 4 years ago
But the crabby patties are a secret. And planktons won't find them on the surface lmao
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denzoren 4 years ago
These look so cool up close. During the dry season in the tropics we get it sometimes.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
I saw this in Thailand some 30 years ago. It was magical!
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Ice Eggs - This Rare Phenomenon Occurs When Ice Is Rolled Over By Wind And Water (Northern Finland)
Casey Burns 4 years ago
Lol that's what you think. Until a bunch of flying alien octopus babies hatch.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Certainly not the snowballs you want to have snowball fights with lol.
Otter 4 years ago
Well, not at the amateur level anyone. These are for Olympic snowball fighting!
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#10
Nappies In Sweden Have A Father On The Packaging
Miss Cris 4 years ago
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.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I believe that's the reason why but you are right, I can't recall any packs of nappies with women pictured, only babies.
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Ranch Dressing 4 years ago
They do try quite hard in Sweden to involve father's more in parenthood.
Rissie 4 years ago
Yeah, well that works best with giving them the time they need to become that father to begin with. Not with taking that "fight" to nappy buyers.
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ElenaK 4 years ago
And the man is bald, contrary to all the ads and movies who show men with thick hair only, like bald men do not exist or are not sexy enough!
Shirley Sibthorpe 4 years ago
If this is Sweden I don’t think he’s bald I think he’s blonde
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Panda Kicki 4 years ago
This might be some sort of limited edition. I buy this exact sort and never seen a dad on it.
Sonya Jersey 4 years ago
for the love of me, I simply could not find the 'feather' on the package, until I read the title again
Glirpy 4 years ago (edited)
Not gonna lie, that baby’s face is pretty creepy. And, I think may be Photoshopped.
H Edwards 4 years ago
That's just under 5 USD, not too bad considering the cost of everything in Sweden. Remember that wages and benefits are much higher there too.
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#11
The Forests Of Aspen, Colorado
ChickyChicky 4 years ago
If I'm not mistaken, this is all one organism, connected under the ground.
Borealbabe 4 years ago
Yes, you're correct. And fun fact, there is an aspen stand in the EU that is well on its way to becoming the largest living organism on earth.
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Brandy Grote 4 years ago
Quaking aspen are actually not separate trees, but a complex organism! They are beautiful in fall when the leaves turn gold and shimmer in the breeze!
#12
This Huge Tree In Cairo
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
The Cairo Tower tree, or Zamalek tree, is more than 150 years old, and one that you just cannot miss when passing by the area. In 1868, Khedive Ismail ordered that it be brought from India and planted there because of its beauty and ability to provide shade. It is the only remaining banyan tree in Cairo. Over the years, the tree became an icon of Zamalek, with couples, tourists, and children making memories and taking pictures next to it.
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Night Owl 4 years ago
I'm not. It gets too little water. (I'm glad they didn't cut it down, though)
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abromantic avocado (she/her) 4 years ago
It's beautiful! That would make a great fantasy library or something
#13
Highway To Heaven. 30-Second Long Exposure Of Airliner Departing From Runway
Sofie 4 years ago
But... Look at the picture, there's obviously a highway too 😂👍
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Dizzy Falcon 4 years ago
I'm on the hiiiiiiiiiighway to hel-heaven on the hiiiiiiiiiighway to heaven
#14
My Nails Pushing The Chemo Out Of My Fingertips
Ria Gladney 3 years ago (edited)
No. Babe. Chemo destroys all fast growing cells like the melanocytes and will eventually return to baseline once grown out. Patience and superfatted hand cream works wonders.
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Cooper Terry 3 years ago (edited)
Wait mark zuckerburg has more lizards AAAAAAA replying to. Crazy_cat_notalady
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#15
Truck Door Handle On A Frosty Morning
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Wait, is that pattern on the handle etched on there or is it made by the frost.
Mrs T Grové 3 years ago
How great is my God! How awesome in majesty, the creator of all and everything, oh, how great is my God.
#16
My Dad Got A Periodic Table With The Actual Elements In It
Steve Barnett 4 years ago
Goes without saying that not all the elements are actually there. Hence the Ionizing radiation hazard symbols.
Ray Martin 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah, having a little bit of Plutonium on the desk is not a great idea ;-)
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Pazuzu 4 years ago (edited)
did he get it on his birthday? hopefully there was an element of surprise after he received it
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I am incredibly jealous of the nerdiness of this at a level I cannot express in words.
Robert T 4 years ago
Nice idea, but looks suss. Hydrogen (1 H), Helium (2 He), Nitrogen (7 N) and Oxygen (8 O) are all colourless gasses, so what on earth is in those, I don't know. Mercury (80 Hg) is a silver liquid, not orange. For those asking about Uranium and Plutonium - Uranium (92 U) is only slightly radioactive, and it depends what isotope. Plutonium (94 Pu) is more radioactive and is not present.
M O'Connell 4 years ago (edited)
The gasses appear to be cavities, bubbles (presumably of the relevant gas) injected into the acrylic before it cured. Mercury(II) oxide is an orange solid.
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Joseph OReilly 4 years ago
I have one of these at home and it has a small chunk of uranium in the respective box. I don't think it's dangerous given the small quantity and thick plastic, but it has just the slightest glow when it's dark and looks super cool
Noel Allan 4 years ago
I can see the gases, meaning this is either a rip off, orrrrrrr .... That glass can actually maintain a pressure really high to keep those gases solid
#17
A Pistachio Plant
Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago
Like a beautiful bunch of roses or tulips . I couldn’t cut them down , they’d stay 😁
Katinka Min 4 years ago
Well, if they are like other nuts, they'll fall down on theri own and you just need to pick them up. :) But I had no diea postachios were so pretty
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Jojo Dancer 4 years ago
I don't what image I had in my mind of what pistachio plants look like, but it was certainly not this! Amazing.
Isaac7lego 4 years ago
In this state they contain cyanide, it really is true that things in the wild with bright colors are often poisonous!!!
#18
The Sun Hit This Freshly-Paved Tarmac Just Right And Made A Real-Life Rainbow Road Through Polarized Lenses
Miss Cris 4 years ago (edited)
Now I'd like to wear polarized glasses wherever just to find hidden rainbows.
Nami Tantrum 4 years ago
and then suddenly a spiny shell hits you and next thing you know you fall into the void just to be pullen up again by a Lakuti
#19
This Butterfly With Transparent Wings
Sergy Yeltsen 4 years ago
It's a Glasswing Butterfly, and it's meant to look like that (i.e. it's not a one-off mutation). Breathtakingly beautiful.
mcborge1 4 years ago
Some moths have wings like this too. The broad bordered bee hawk moth for example, other moth species have windows in their wings like the Tree of heaven Atlas moth.
andy klompenburg 3 years ago
took a pic of this hummingbird moth in northern Saskatchewan. Flapped its wings like a hummingbird also IMG_5106-6...7-jpeg.jpg 
Earl Grey 4 years ago
Yes, you are correct. You know your butterfly biology! This well-studied species accumulates dehydropyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) from their diet of Apocynaceae and Solanaceae, but apparently only in the adult males. This is referred to as pharmacophagy. The famous Monarch butterfly, for example, accumulates toxic cardiac glycosides in adults from the larvae (caterpillars) that feed on milkweed. Reference: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01240582
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Earl Grey 4 years ago (edited)
It is a Glasswing butterfly in the genus Oleria (Ithomiidae). These are among the most photographed butterflies on ecotours and are popular in butterfly farms as well. I’m guessing that this was from a Costa Rican tour because of their popularity, so I would say the species is Oleria paula, of which its many subspecies range throughout Central America. Reference: https://butterfliesofamerica.com/L/t/Oleria_a.htm (scroll down to the bottom) DE1B163B-3...1-jpeg.jpg 
#20
Amazing Jimbacrinus Crinoid Fossils
Christopher Walkies 4 years ago
Or do those machine things from the Matrix look like them?
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Sheila McEnany Markowitz 4 years ago
From Western Australia, these are echinoderms, related to sea urchins and starfish
Nixxy 4 years ago
Believe it or not, they are very closely related to the sea cucumber
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Miss Cris 4 years ago
Fisrt sight: "oh, this is disgusting!". After a zoom: "They must be yummi, just fried".
Channon Doughty 4 years ago
Sadly , no. They look like squid but are quite different, being close relations of starfish and sea urchins.
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Shay 4 years ago
I'm always completely astonished when I see photos of fossils like this. It's just so wild that creatures like this existed!
Clinton Parsons 3 years ago (edited)
Crinoids are still around. There are some called sea Lillie’s that grow attached to the sea floor like this fossilized type, and there are kinds that actively swim around and are called sea feathers/feather stars. Look up the swimming kind on YouTube, the way they swim is absolutely mesmerizing. In fact, the crinoids alive today have much more intricate and beautiful structures. Some have up to two hundred feathery tentacles.
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What A Piece Of 10,000-Year-Old Glacial Ice Looks Like
Antonia Gonzales 4 years ago
Earth cycles. Maybe some day Antarctica will become green again.
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Vicki Perizzolo 4 years ago
it is so wrong that we can even see that... definitely a bad sign of things to come
#22
This Close Up Shot Of A Dragonfly I Took With My Phone The Other Day
mcborge1 4 years ago (edited)
I'm always happy to see a dragonfly. There's an old trick to attracting dragonflies if you are near a pond on a sunny day and you want to take a closser look at some. You need a sheet of white paper put on the ground in direct sunlight, held down with a stone at each corner so it doesn't move in any breeze. Just sit near it and see how many dragonflies come to check it out.
John C 4 years ago
I just saw a thing on dragonflies - once dead the color drains from their wings. If you try to preserve them you just wind up with a bunch of colorless bodies - this is why people took to studying butterflies instead of dragonflies.
Kai Wee Toh 4 years ago
You know a dragonfly is super-relaxed when it droops its wings like that. When on alert, they keep wings level, or slightly tilted upwards, ready to launch into flight in a snap.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Wow! We get lots of dragonflies when the weather turns hot in summer, but not a lot of red ones for some reason. Though once in a a while we see one, and we see the yellow ones even less. I wonder why. Regardless, this one has really beautiful coloring.
