There's a huge crater on Mars that's filled with ice:
It's named Korolev crater, and it's about 50 miles across and one mile thick.
This is what velcro looks like under an electron microscope:
This is what a deconstructed escalator looks like:
There's a bird that looks like it has a bowl cut. My friends, meet the crested canary:
This is what a Hoover Dam spillway tunnel looks like. Check out the tiny, tiny walkway on top:
The spillways are there to make sure water doesn't go over the dam. The tunnel is 50 feet wide and 600 feet long and totally not the stuff of nightmares.
This is what a gorilla going to the dentist looks like:
This is a silverback gorilla named Motaba getting checked for infection.
Gorillas... they're just like us!
Saturn has a moon named Mimas that looks pretty much exactly like the Death Star:
...but that's just a coincidence. Mimas was first seen up close and clear three years after Star Wars came out:
A cardinal with no feathers on its head is absolutely terrifying:
A group of Japanese samurai visited the Great Sphinx of Giza in 1864:
They were part of a Japanese embassy to Europe. I know what you're all thinking: If only they could have been there 2,500 years earlier and helped the Pharaoh Psamtik III stop the Persian invasion of the Two Lands. SMH!
This is a pepperbox pistol, a type of firearm that could have as many as 24 barrels:
Stink bug eggs have little smiley faces on them:
Some Chinese soldiers have pins attached to their collars in order to correct posture during exercises:
This lovable lump is a sea hare, a species of gigantic slugs found on the California coast:
Allen wrenches can be absolutely enormous:
This is what a suit of elephant armor looked like:
This particular set dates back to 16th-century India. If I was a soldier and saw this coming at me, I think I'd just turn around and pack it in.
And this is Pelorus Jack, a dolphin that spent two decades helping to guide ships through the "treacherous" French Pass in New Zealand:
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nah just doesn't like to obey the ccp, and will most likely end up in a re education camp
Saalburg Museum, Bad Homburg, Hesse, Germany.