Nate
Some pictures are just… something else. Not necessarily funny, not exactly historical, but they stick with you. I came across a bunch of these on r/interesting, and they’re the kind of pics that make you pause, zoom in, maybe even save to your camera roll.
Here are some of the best ones. They’re interesting, cool, and oddly satisfying in that internet brain-scratch kind of way.
1. “When You Reach 100 Years Old In Barbados, You Get A Stamp In Your Honour”
2. “Finland’s Way To End Homelessness”
3. “Mesh Netting That Catches The Trash Before It Goes Into The Ocean”
4. “A Spotless Giraffe”
5. “A 10mb Hard Drive From The 60s”
Silver-Goat8306:
Later than that as well. For many years I worked on CDC cyber 860s and 70s. That’s what was in the discs packs that had to be mounted. FFS we carry around in our pockets far more computing power than we had in entire big rooms into the ‘80s, ‘90s, and 2000s.
6. “Bodyscan Of Woman At 250 And 125 Pounds”
Adler221:
Seeing my MRI scan when I was close to 300, was exactly what I needed to lose weight. Started at 262 and currently 168.
7. “This Female Grey Wolf And Male Brown Bear Were Spotted Every Night For Ten Days Straight By A Finnish Photographer, Spending Several Hours Together Between 8pm And 4am. They Would Even Share Food With Each Other”
8. “A Rare White Lion”
9. “When A 6.8 Earthquake Hit Olympia, Washington In 2001, A Shop Owner Found That A Sand-Tracing Pendulum Recorded The Vibrations”
10. “This Guy Found Himself On An Empty Airplane And Took A Picture In Every Seat And Photoshopped It Together”
11. “Bullet Trains And Their Security System”
12. “Neil Armstrong’s Family Watches Him Go To The Moon”
13. “A German Circus Is Using Holograms Instead Of Live Animals For A Cruelty-Free Experience”
14. “The Casual Border Between Belgium And The Netherlands”
15. “This Beach In Turkey With Accessibility Features”
16. “I’ve Never Seen A Baby Squirrel. I Am Not Disappointed”
17. “The Difference Between An Alligator (Left) And A Crocodile (Right)”
18. “A German Company That Sells Cleaning Equipment Used Its Pressure Washers To Create A Giant Image Of Godzilla On The Iwaya Kawauchi Dam In Saga Prefecture (Japan)”
19. “A Mask Made To Block AI Based Facial Recognition From All Angles”
20. “In 1976, Shavarsh Karapetyan, An Armenian Olympic Swimmer, Saves 20 People Trapped In A Bus That Sank 80′ Offshore. It Took Him Several Hours To Save Them All, And He Suffered Injuries That Put Him In The Hospital For 45 Days—It Ended His Olympic Career”
21. “Jose Mujica: The Poorest President”
22. “Extraordinary Rock Balancing”
23. “A Prison Cell In Norway”
24. “A Melanistic Fox, One Of The Rarest And Beautiful Animals On The Planet”
25. “Mars On The Left, Earth On The Right”
26. “A Globe That Shows Elevation”
27. “Dutch Artist Berndnaut Smilde Creates Indoor Clouds By Perfectly Balancing Temperature, Humidity And Light Inside Buildings And Rooms”
28. “The Smile Says It All”
29. “A Rare Phenomenon Called Fire Rainbow In The Atmosphere Photographed.”
30. “Close-Up Shots Of Spider Eyes Captured By Macro Photographer Javier Rupérez”
31. “Wing Structure Of A Fruit Bat”
32. “7000 Years Old Skull And Antlers Of An Extinct Irish Elk Found By Fishermen In Ireland”
33. “The Silver Snipers Are A Cs:go E-Sports Team In Sweden Where The Youngest Member Is 62 Years Old And The Oldest Is 81”
34. “The Person Who Designed The Building’s Structure In Barcelona Has A Grave Which Looks Like The Buildings He Designed”
35. “IR Light And My Veins”
“This photo is taken by modified camera(2Mp macro camera) that can capture IR light as well. Behind the hand is a source of 850nm IR light and it can pass though flesh more easily than the deoxygenated blood present in the vein.”
36. “Coral Snake Intubated And Sedated For Surgery”
37. “A Salt Mine In Romania”
38. “Phones Confiscated During Cell Searches At Just One Prison”
39. “When Israeli President Chaim Weizmann Died In 1952, Einstein Was Asked To Be Israel’s Second President, But He Declined”
40. “The Way This Opal Formed Looks Like Runes”
