Truly Fascinating Things People Decided To Share Online (40 Pics)

The internet is still used for good. Sure, there’s plenty of bad but I choose to focus on funny memes and interesting pictures. People sharing fun stuff.

One of my favorite internet avenues is folks who have fascinating information and/or pictures that I wouldn’t even know to search for.

This is sort of a mixed bag but I think all of it is pretty neat. Hope you think so too.

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1. I created a photorealistic image of George Washington if he lived in the present day.

2. The astronauts of Crew-2 enjoying their last day on Earth before they travel to space tomorrow to spend the next six months on the ISS.

3. A customer brought in a 1934 thousand dollar bill. After ten years in banking finally got to see one in person.

4. This bamboo grew up during the pandemic without the effect of tourists’ touch.

5. I created a photorealistic image of Abraham Lincoln if he lived in the present day.

6. Sleeping Squirrels in their nest on someone’s window ledge.

7. The door is real—the rest is graffiti.

8. My $20 bill with serial number 1.

9. This is what sunset looks like from space.

10. The weather in the Netherlands today.

11. She was 11 when WWI started, 36 when WWII started, 74 when Star Wars released, and 116 when Covid-19 started. And her name is Kane Tanaka as the world’s oldest living person at age 118 years. She was born on January 2, 1903.

12. My friend and I coded Plague Inc… for a TI-84 calculator.

13. An 8-mile long “canvas” filled with ice age drawings of extinct animals has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest.

14. A statue of Yasuke, an African slave, who arrived in Japan in 1579 and became the first black Samurai.

15. Kids remote learning during a polio outbreak in the 1940s. Teachers read lessons over the radio.

16. My mom and uncle found a USAF target drone on the beach.

17. The concept of light pollution is crazy.

18. Before and after the excavation of the Ancient Greek Stadium.

19. Hanako, a koi fish who died at the age of 226. In 1966, two of her scales were removed and extensively studied to determine her age. She was the longest living koi fish (c. 1751 – 7 July 1977.)

20. A click farm in Asia where low-paid workers are used to inflate video views and trick advertisers to believe that their ads are running successfully.

21. This beach in Turkey with accessibility features.

22. Certain fish skin can be grafted onto burns and diabetic wounds. The material recruits the body’s own cells and is converted eventually into living tissue.

23. Martian water accumulating on the legs of the Phoenix Mars Lander.

24. A Cow escaped from a Polish farm and was spotted months later living with a herd of wild bison.

25. People in Myanmar know they will be shot if they protest peacefully so they are holding personless protests around the country featuring thousands of dolls called pyit-tine-htaung — a doll that rights itself every time it is tossed. The dolls symbolize an indefatigable attitude.