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If we want to learn something new and grow as individuals, we need to expose ourselves to things we haven't encountered before. That's often easier said than done, because stepping outside our comfort zones requires a willingness to be vulnerable in the face of the unfamiliar.
So, we decided to create a controlled, zero-risk environment where everyone who wants to expand their horizons could easily do so. Bored Panda put together a list of fascinating pictures for curious minds, revealing nature, technology, and other aspects of the world you might never have explored—each one ready to spark your next big interest.
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#1
Modern Icelandic Houses Are Built With Geothermally Heated Water Pipes Under Their Sidewalks So Icelanders Never Have To Shovel In Winter
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#2
One Bench In The Netherlands, One In Germany, And One In Belgium
#3
My Uncle, Who Works On An Arctic Research Vessel, Got An Unexpected Visitor Today
Susie Elle 9 months ago (edited)
Won't this make the bear come back, which is not a good thing?
#4
This Sign At This House That Takes In Stray Turtles
#5
Forelimb Of A Fin Whale And Human Skeleton
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 9 months ago
When you awkwardly go for a high 5 but the other person was aiming for a handshake 🤝
#6
Dad’s Relay Torch From The ‘84 Olympics
#7
In Finland They Advertise The ‘Extra Large’ Size As ‘American Size’
#8
Inside The Eye Of Category 5 Hurricane
#9
A Few Years Ago I Submitted A Gallery Of Photos I've Taken While Working As A Flight Paramedic In The Canadian Arctic
#10
I Found A Wild Peanut
#11
Dutch Firefighter After Dousing A Fire In Freezing Conditions
#12
Galileo Sees Io Erupt. You Can See Volcanic Eruptions On Jupiter’s Moon Io From Space
#13
X-Ray Image Showing The Pregnancy Of A Dog
#14
I Went To The South Pole
#15
It’s Someone’s Job To Hoover The Whale At The American Museum Of Natural History (NYC)
#16
Car Parking Without Safety Barriers
#17
Roof Is Painted Two Colors And The Pigeons Only Congregate On The Tan Colors
#18
The Underside Of A Ladybug
#19
Gorilla Hands Up Close
#20
Inside The Cargo Hold Of An Lng (Liquiid Natural Gas) Tanker
#21
Why Sunscreen Is Important
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 9 months ago
Wow one of fathers arms is like this. He's in his 80s now but years of farming and being on a tractor with his right arm only getting sun. We live in Ireland so it wasn't much sun and for past 30 years he wore sunscreen but the damage was already done. The skin is so brittle it bleeds a lot. We're all very fair skinned mostly red heds so it really drives home the importance of sunscreen even in countries that aren't known for sun.
#22
The Vein Finder At Docs Office Was Fun To Mess Around With
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 9 months ago
I have terrible veins so this invention has been a huge help for both my arms and my nurse's patience!! (Pun intended)
#23
The Border Between Canada And The U.S. Is Just A Clearcut Line In The Forest. This Is Above Eureka, Mt
#24
I Saw 1 Of The 25 Blimps Left In The World
#25
Southern Los Angeles Looks Like A Computer Motherboard
#26
Cab Of A Modern Trash Truck
Lady Eowyn 9 months ago
For anyone who doesn't have respect for the trash collectors. You need brains to deal with this lot.
#27
Huge Wheel
#28
A Camera-Less iPhone Issued To My Buddy That Works At A Nuclear Plant. No Cameras Allowed
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 9 months ago
Interesting. I would have thought even camerless wouldn't have been allowed.
#29
My Forearm Difference (Professional Tennis Player)
#30
I Have A Tile Of Uranium Glass
#31
Old Growth Lumber vs. Modern Factory Farmed Lumber
#32
This Tortoise Getting X-Rays At My Work Yesterday
#33
People Actually Drank This
Roxy222uk 9 months ago
"Skilfully combined with a number of other essentials" - and they would be? Labelling laws (when well written and enforced) are some of my favourite laws. They show the level of s.h.i.t companies will resort to if left to get on with it unregulated.
S 9 months ago
On that note, the brand is listed as Kohler...which is now known for toilets and sinks.
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Laura Slade 9 months ago
Was in some UK cough sweets until the 1940s I think?
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I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 9 months ago
Reminds me of the old time ingredients of Coca-Cola and 7-up!!! They had all the good stuff back then/s
Lady Eowyn 9 months ago
The amount of c*****e in Coca-Cola has been greatly exaggerated. And it wasn't even really c*****e but ecogonine, a precursor to c*****e. It was totally eliminated by 1930, and was never more than a trace amount.
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Bill Swallow 9 months ago
As an earlier commenter mused on this same stuff, "That is the definition of 'f*ck me up' juice!"
Aidan Pite 9 months ago
I remember years ago listening to an interview on the radio with historians who were digging up old 19th/early 20th century outhouse pits, which were usually used to dispose of garbage. One thing they mentioned was that, if they found bottles of tonic for teething pain, they would never find just one... because the active ingredient was opium.
Billo66 9 months ago
I don't know when they changed it but in the 80's you could still get codeine otc you just had to sign for it. Terpinhydrate & Codeine Elixer. I was 18 and fubu lol.
CatD 8 months ago
You could also get paraegoric and parepectolin for diarrhea. Both had morphine and were OTC meds in the 80s,
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Jessica Cooney 9 months ago
Meanwhile, I'm sitting here thinking about how horrible that must have tasted.
Matthew Currie 9 months ago
It probably did taste pretty odd, but unfortunately opium is a really good cough suppressant too. Back long ago when I was a kid I had croup and the specified stuff for that was something called "Stokes Expectorant." Can't get that any more, but it once had opium of some sort in it, along with something like pine tar. It was thick brown and effective, and I grew to rather like the flavor. Of course I only got small doses and in this case it never became an a*******n or anything. The bottle was empty some time in the 1950's, and that was the end of it anyway, though I did find a bottle of terpin hydrate with codeine in my grandmother's basement years later. Not Stokes, so down the drain it went! I'm guessing that the combination in the stuff above probably worked pretty well on coughs, but probably worked pretty well on consciousness too!
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Camilla Koutsos 9 months ago
You can still buy cough syrups with opiates. Probably not with chloroform, though…
Kate Johnson 9 months ago
You guys actually blurred 'd***s' from THE FOOD AND D***S ACT JUNE 30 1906?! Wth? Really!?
Tom Brincefield 9 months ago
The scary part is, this is something that passed the requirements of the Pure Food & D**g Act of 1906. The stuff from before was really messed up. The origin of snake oil salesman.
RomanceRadish 9 months ago
Probably to cope with various ailments they had no medical help for.
Spencer's slave no longer 9 months ago
Do any UK pandas remember parents buying kaolin and morph over the counter from the chemist?
Space Invader 9 months ago
Only if there were no opiates available. Or extracts from coca leaves.
Hosteshumanigeneris 9 months ago
I'd be afraid of not waking up! One night might end up being one night too many
April Pickett 9 months ago
Of course they did. It was touted as a wonderful cure, with witnesses exclaiming how it cured them. Who would doubt them?
#34
Contact Area Between Train Wheel And Rail
Nadine Debard 9 months ago
The train wheels are slightly conical (3 degrees) to allow turning without having a differential between the wheels and it also keeps the train on tracks because of the forces that apply on the conical wheel.
#35
24 Hours After Being Stung By A Yellow Jacket On My Middle Upper Knuckle
#36
Cat vs. Lion Fang
#37
Concentrated Solar Farm I Saw On A Plane To Vegas
#38
My Friend's 0.3 Millimeter Drill Bit Used For Working On Models
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 9 months ago
I could not be trusted with this. It would be lost within 10 seconds
#39
Flying Over North Sentinel Island
#40
Whole Hotel Building Getting Fumigated
#41
My Local Super Market Sells Ostrich Eggs
#42
Hubble Shows That Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Smaller Than Ever Seen Before
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 9 months ago
So fascinating that this storm has been raging for centuries.
#43
My Husband Got Tipped With A $10 Coin At Work Tonight
Alfred Wessex 9 months ago
Unfortunately that’s not a valid US currency. It’s just a commemorative coin issued by the Hutt River Province in Australia. It’s one of those things you see for sale on late night TV.
#44
Doing A Reno And Thought It Was Interesting How Nails Have Changed In Almost 200 Years
Hell'n Damnation 9 months ago
Well the first lot lasted 200 years, and still look pretty sturdy.
#45
1936 Concept Of Making The Eiffel Tower Accessible By Car
#46
A Ferris Wheel Being Taken Apart
#47
Woman Using A Treadmill In The 1920s. Not Sure What The Arrow Is Meassuring
#48
The Size Of This Allen Wrench
#49
Toilet On The 155th Floor Of The Burj Khalifa
#50
The Pilot In My Flight Had To Dump Fuel Before Emergency Landing. That’s How It Looks Like
#51
The Model Used For The Dime Is At My College
#52
This Pizzeria Sign Is An Actual Pizza Encased In Acrylic
#53
The Amount Of Security Cameras At This Casino
#54
Foam Beer In Japan. Paid 400 Yen (Us$ 2.60)
#55
"American Section" At My Belgian Grocery Store
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Bobert Robertson 9 months ago (edited)
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Bobert Robertson 9 months ago (edited)
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Taro Obanagi 9 months ago
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