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The human nervous system. The rest of our bodies are built for two reasons, to reproduce and to keep this alive.
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A tree burning from the inside after being struck by lightning.

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A 1986 Coke can found in a ceiling.

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Grains of salt under an electron microscope.

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The “Portal to Hell” located in Kamokuna, Hawaii


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Extremely rare, the Harpy Eagle is actually considered a mythological creature. This beastly bird has held a position in Greek mythology for over 3,000 years.

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One of the rarest animals on the planet, the black jaguar.

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What birthday parties looked like before all the pussies took over.

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How babies traveled on airplanes in the 1960s.

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A couple viewing the Apollo 8 Spacecraft launch, 1968

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A statue of King Arthur on top of the Tintagel Cliffs in Cornwall.

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When you’re completely done with everybody’s shit

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This man published a photo on social media expressing his joy to take a bus driven by a woman for the first time... 20 minutes later he published another photo.

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Will one of you guys go make me a sammich!

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Lake Charlevoix in Michigan has the clearest ice you will ever see.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and coach Wooden.
“Never forget who helped you.”

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A terrifying look at a jaguar feeding underwater.

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A statue of Jesus in India mysteriously began dripping water from its toes. Worshippers started collecting it and drinking it believing it was holy. The source of the water was later found to be a clogged toilet near the statue.

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Princess Qajar was considered the ultimate symbol of beauty in Persia during the early 1900s. So much in fact, a total of 13 young men killed themselves because she rejected their love.

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The Three Stooges, in and out of character, 1930s

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My friend decided to cover up the tattoo of his ex wife..

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Best key-chain ever!

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Katherine Knight, mother of four, with her boyfriend John Price. Three days after this photo was taken, she killed him and ate him.

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A fireman’s bicycle, c.1905

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A diabolical hand crushing machine used by the Catholic Church in the 15th Century to punish those with “greedy hands.”

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A spiral staircase designed by Leonardo da Vinci in the year 1516.
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Mount St. Helens eruption, 1980

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Major Erik Bonde smokes a cigarette after being ambushed and shot twice in the Congo, 1961

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You had me at dancing sandwiches..

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The no smoking with kids in the car law is ridiculous. Just look at them standing out there in the rain..

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A well-nourished Sudanese man steals a bag of food from a starving child during a food distribution at a feeding centre in southern Sudan, 1998

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A girl with a massive bush, 1970s

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“Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti.” ~Sophia Loren

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Where it all started..

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Online dating in the 1920s.

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A rare photo of Slash without his hat, 1986

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Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1989

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The original Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, 1976

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Inside the mouth of a leatherback turtle.

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Jennifer Aniston, 1999

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Andrew Myrick, a storekeeper on a Minnesota Native American Reservation, refused to sell to Indians and told them to eat grass if they were hungry. He was found dead on the first day of the Dakota War in 1862, with grass stuffed in his mouth and buttocks.

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Playground equipment in the early 1900s. Would be unheard of today.

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Steel Nipple Shields, c. 1890

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‘Stand By Me, 1986

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Sophia Loren, 1950s

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An amazing image of D-Day veterans sitting across from their younger selves in the same plane that dropped them into Normandy in 1944.

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A Mind Blowing photograph of Dr. Leonid Rogozov performing surgery on himself in 1967. While doing scientific research in Antarctica, Doc Rogozov had his appendix burst. With no surgeon nearby, he decided to handle the operation himself. In the end, the Doc recovered well and went on to live a long and happy life.

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The actual human-skin mask created by serial killer Ed Gein, that inspired “Leatherface” in 1974 horror film ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

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Black children watching as white children play in a whites-only Park, Mobile, Alabama, 1956

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A Cereal Leaf Beetle after being parasitized by a parasitoid wasp which lays its eggs inside the larva of the beetle. The eggs hatch within the larvae and begin to feed on the beetle while it is still alive, before they burst out and kill it.

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Cats drinking fresh milk on the farm, 1954

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Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy stands outside of his Chicago home where the bodies of 29 young boys were discovered in the crawl space of the basement after his arrest in 1978.

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Peter Freuchen, the man who formed a chisel out of his own frozen feces to free himself from an avalanche. He then amputated his own frozen toes without anesthesia. He is pictured here with his wife Dagmar.

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"Brownie" Mary Jane Rathbun, Inventor of the Marijuana Brownie.
During the 1980's Mary Jane was baking over 4,000 brownies a week for cancer patients in California. Despite multiple arrests, she remained an active marijuana advocate until the day she died.

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