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Dougl Hegdahl, a U.S. Navy petty officer, was captured during the Vietnam War. His captors thought him unintelligent, earning him the moniker "The Stupid." He feigned ignorance, opting to hum a song instead of speaking. While in captivity, Hegdahl maintained this act,…

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Birds are fed by their parents in their infancy. When the time comes to feed themselves, there can be some confusion when the food does not go into their mouth by itself.

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Baby tiger sneaks up on its mom.

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Baby tiger sneaks up on its mom.

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Become ungovernable

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An enormous obsidian stone split in half.

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Soothing timelapse of cats following a sunbeam.

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Great demonstration of static electricity.

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Baby elephants typically don't learn to control their trunks until they're about a year old, which may result in behavior like this.

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An unexpected duo, a coyote and a badger, traveling together through a tunnel under a highway.

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Chomp.

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A woman is ticketed for wearing a bikini, 1957.

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A train in Singapore with windows that automatically blind when passing residential blocks.

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Doctors at a hospital in Texas informed George Pickering that his son was in a state of brain death. They explained that his son showed "no brain activity" and the decision had been made to remove life support. Pickering, however, was unconvinced by their assessment and…

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European starlings are so good at mimicry, they can even do human speech.

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What is wrong with people?

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High winds at the perfect time of day created a previously undocumented 2,400-foot rainbow waterfall in Yosemite National Park

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Sleeping Squirrels in their nest on someone's window ledge.

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The Pallas's cat, also known as the manul, is a small, endangered wild cat native to Central Asia.

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Raw malachite is mesmerizing.

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Pandas don't have particular sleeping spots often falling asleep wherever they are.

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A baby flamingo learning how to stand on one leg.

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"When I told my father I was going to marry Jake he said, ‘If you marry that man you will never set foot in this house again.’⁣ ⁣ He was horrified that I could contemplate marrying a black man, and I soon learned that most people felt the same way. The first years of our…

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Siberian Husky waking up from a nap. His fur insulates him from the (-13°c) temperature.

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Tombili (Turkish for the word chubby) was a cat who lived in Istanbul, Turkey. Tombili would sit on the steps shown in the image above and look at passersby, which gained considerable interest from people on the internet and quickly became an online sensation. Sadly,…

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An amazing rescue!

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Freddie Mercury said to Mary Austin in his will: “If things had been different you would have been my wife, and this would have been yours anyway.” (1984)

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In 1981, Marianne Bachmeier shot the murderer of her 7-year-old daughter. Klaus Grabowski, a 35-year-old butcher who had already sexually assaulted 2 girls previously. Bachmeier pulled out a Beretta during his trial nd emptied 7 bullets into Grabowski's body, killing him…

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Princess Diana participates in a parent's race at her son's school.

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A sea otter gets his temperature taken.

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A struggle to weigh a 97-day-old baby emperor penguin.

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Randall Champion accidentally touched a high-voltage line, electrifying himself & stopping his heart. A fellow linemen J.D. Thompson performed CPR until paramedics arrived. Champion survived. This famous photo is known as "The Kiss of Life." (1967). Photo by Rocco Morabito.

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Nothing to see here, just washing a hedgehog.

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The British TV show "Teletubbies" aired from 1997 to 2001. Contrary to their on-screen appearance, the characters were huge: Tinky Winky was 10 feet tall, Po was 6 feet 6 inches, Laa-Laa was 6 feet 5 inches, and Dipsy was 8 feet. To make them appear small, the show was filmed…

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The banned "Dead Loop" of Olga Korbut, 1972. It was the first and last time the trick was documented.

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A mesmerizing view of bread.

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The banned "Dead Loop" of Olga Korbut, 1972. It was the first and last time the trick was documented.

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An unexpected duo, a coyote and a badger, traveling together through a tunnel under a highway.

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In 1996, an unidentified 8-year-old boy slipped away from his mother, climbed over a barrier, and fell into the Gorilla Enclosure. Due to the 20 ft fall, the boy broke his hand and suffered a deep laceration to his face. Seven gorillas inhabited the enclosure. Gorillas are…

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Michael Jackson & Freddie Mercury, early 1980s.

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A baby gorilla gently interacts with a deer.

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Muscle mass vs. strength

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Michael Jackson’s final rehearsal before he died hours later.

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A group CrossFitters passed by a restaurant in Brazil. Everyone eating thought they were running away from something, so they jumped up and ran with them.

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In the 1980s, musician Daryl Davis set out to understand the Ku Klux Klan. So he started befriending members at Klan rallies and joined an all-white country band. Then, he met Imperial Wizard Roger Kelly. Davis spent years building a relationship with Kelly, establishing trust…

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This deer carefully maneuvers its antlers to walk under a gate.

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A seal escapes an orca at the last second by jumping on a boat.

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In 1996, an unidentified 8-year-old boy slipped away from his mother, climbed over a barrier, and fell into the Gorilla Enclosure. Due to the 20 ft fall, the boy broke his hand and suffered a deep laceration to his face. Seven gorillas inhabited the enclosure. Gorillas are known…

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A baby turtle enjoys a cleaning.

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An extremely intelligent rabbit knows the dog is following its scent, so he doubles back.

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Un conejo inteligente, sabe que el perro sigue su olor.

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The black-footed cat is the deadliest wildcat in the world. Though they weigh only 2 - 6 pounds, they take down more prey in a single night than a leopard does in 6 months.

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No words.

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A sloth enjoying the ride.

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A house cat who broke into a Lynx's cage

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At 3 a.m. one night in 1988, Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwo'ole called a local studio and said he needed to record something immediately. He pleaded with the engineer: "Please, can I come in? I have an idea." Kamakawiwo'ole recorded the iconic version of "Somewhere Over…

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Finding some surprises while cleaning the canals of Amsterdam.

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On November 24, 2009, John Edward Jones tragically lost his life in the Nutty Putty cave following a harrowing 28-hour ordeal. While exploring with his brother Josh, Jones accidentally entered a constricted tunnel, mistaking it for another tight passage known as the "Birth…

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A baby turtle being born.

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The moment Tom Holland "accidentally" leaked Avengers: Infinity War.

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Polar bear and her cub. Video by Ruth Elwell Steck

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Michael Jordan shooting a free throw with his eyes closed, 1991

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A tram in the Netherlands failed to stop in time and broke through the emergency barrier. It was held up by the statue of a whale's tail.

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Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth met in 1956. They were the same age at the time.

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What's wrong with people?

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The banned "Dead Loop" of Olga Korbut, 1972. It was the first and last time the trick was documented.

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I'm obsessed with this video.

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I'd love him on my team.

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The special effects that went into creating the terminator.

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Omoide Yokocho is a narrow street in Tokyo with over 70 tiny bars and barbecue stands. It looks like it's straight out of "Blade Runner."

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At 3 a.m. one night in 1988, Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwo'ole called a local studio and said he needed to record something immediately. He pleaded with the engineer: "Please, can I come in? I have an idea." Kamakawiwo'ole recorded the iconic version of "Somewhere Over The…

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For over twenty years, numerous mountaineers ascending Mount Everest have encountered "Green Boots," a deceased climber who lost his life near the summit in 1996. Presently, the presence of Green Boots' body serves as a grim milestone for climbers, indicating their proximity to…

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Michael Jackson dances on the Cher Show, 1975.

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Princess Diana meets Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) in 1984

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Cartoons vs. reality

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When Kurt Russell was a kid, he worked with Charles Bronson. On discovering it was Bronson's birthday, Russell gave him a gift. Bronson took the gift and left without a word, leaving Russell worried he had upset him. Later, Bronson called Russell to his dressing room and…

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Siberian Husky waking up from a nap. His fur insulates him from the (-13°c) temperature.

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In 2005, a nursing home in the US got a six-month-old kitten named Oscar as a therapy cat. The staff soon noticed something unusual about him. Oscar often liked to be by himself, but sometimes he would go and lie next to one of the residents. Strangely, the resident he chose…

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Even hippos need a dentist.

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Amazing raw malachite.

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A magnetic window cleaner in action.

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A great moment in Tennis history

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How is this even possible?

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11 year-old Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson sitting in the crowd watching his father about to wrestle, 1984

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Amazing ghost sculpture, Vezio, Italy.

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The Nile River as seen from space.

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A parasitic worm has turned this snail into a "zombie" that mimics caterpillars to be eaten by a bird, where it can reproduce inside its GI tract.

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Two brothers return to their toy car 30 years after leaving Pripyat due to the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster in 1986.

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Judith Love Cohen was an American aerospace engineer who helped create the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. When she went into labor, she went to work. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said…

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The larvae of the angled sunbeam butterfly have a strange shape. When they get angry or startled, they instantly shoot tentacles from the two protrusions on their back and swing them around.

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A bit of a showoff.

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Juggling balls as seen from above.

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Siwa Oasis, Egypt. The 95% salt concentration increases the density of water and buoyancy, making it so you can't sink.

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Owl caught on the live cam at the Owl research institute in Montana.

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On June 3, 2022, three-year-old Ryker Webb was playing with his dog when he decided to take a walk on his own and wandered off. After two hours of his disappearance, the family reported him missing. A massive search for Ryker was launched, and for two days the search team made no…

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Automated tomato sorter.

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