"Pig Farm in China"
"Inside view of the world’s largest pig farm/slaughterhouse in Hubei, China"
"New Gym Policy"
"A general guide for different kinds of AI."
"Anti suicide trigger guards on Turkish military rifles"
"A heavily battle-scarred Great White Shark that was spotted near the Neptune Islands, South Australia, 2022."
"In Japan, they put a barcode in the meat package that darkens when the meat spoils, reacting to ammonia. When it darkens, the barcode is unreadable."
"The differences between primate feet"
"The true list of KFC’s “11 herbs and spices,” leaked by Colonel Sanders’ own nephew in 2016. The list was jotted down on the back of the will for Claudia Sanders, the late wife of the Colonel. Colonel Sanders himself once claimed that the ingredients “stand on everybody’s shelf”."
"Many radiation sources have this unusual warning printed or engraved on them"
"Ruja Ignatova took 4 billion dollars over a period of 16 months in a ponzi scam using her company OneCoin. She is on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list and has arrest warrants from Europol and Interpol. FBI Reward is $100,000 for information leading to her capture (good podcast about her story)"
"Toyota 2000GT – Production 1967–1970 (351 produced), have sold at auction for as much as US$1,200,000. ($580,000 Avg. Value)"
This, from 1896, is what one of Pablo Picasso's first-ever self-portraits looks like:
And this, from 1972, is what one of Picasso's last self-portraits looks like:
This is what the "American Candy" section looks like in a UK store:
Australia is really, really big:
This is what one of the prototype space suits developed for the Apollo program looked like:
It was made by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., which apparently should be getting some royalties from the folks who made Among Us.
This is how big a wolf's paw print is compared with a human hand:
This photo is one of only two photos in existence of the US Supreme Court in session:
The court has never allowed cameras. In 1937, photographer Erich Salomon pretended that his arm was broken and put the camera inside a sling he wore into the court and snapped this pic.
Curved escalators exist:
You're probably familiar with the "Face on Mars," an image of a formation on Mars from the 1970s that launched a million conspiracy theories...
Well, this is what a much less blurry, much more recent photograph of that same "face" looks like:
This isn't a circle — it's a 1 million–sided polygon called a megagon:
According to Naked Geometry, "even if drawn at the size of the Earth, a regular megagon would be very difficult to distinguish from a circle."
This is what the Rosetta stone looks like from the front...
And this is what the back of the Rosetta stone looks like:
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#31 Ever the 'grammar Nazi' Hitler might have considered peace, had Gandhi spelled 'deliberately' correctly. That pissed der Fuhrer off. Think of the headlines - "Gandhi Fails To Spell-Check Letter To Mr. Hitler...Starts Another World War."
yeah, exactly! It's not like the government issued those; they've always been paper. That's just a cheapy back-of-a-comic-book thing.
They will be creeps nonetheless