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This is Göbekli Tepe – A 12,000-year-old temple that predates Stonehenge by 6,000 years, rewriting human history.

An immense mystery older than Stonehenge

Reshaping previous ideas on the story of civilisation, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey was built by a prehistoric people 6,000 years before Stonehenge.

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Spade toothed Whale, a species so rare, it has never been seen alive.

 

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Brain activity in clinical depression.

Clinical depression (Major Depression) is diagnosed after a formal assessment in which you meet a certain threshold of symptoms over a specified period of time, causing distress and/or impairment in functioning. Some symptoms must be met (i.e Depressed mood for longer two weeks + loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities) and others are collated to reach the diagnostic threshold.

‘Casual depression’ could mean different things, either a layman’s assessment of their mood; undiagnosed depression or other mental health conditions; or normal episodes of sadness/lacking motivation.

Most of the time, clinical depression is more noticeable because of the significant impact on one’s ability to function.

 

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After his divorce, Giancarlo Esposito declared bankruptcy and considered arranging his own death to provide insurance money for his children. Shortly after, he was cast as Gus Fring on 'Breaking Bad, a role that transformed his life.

Giancarlo Esposito Was So Broke Before ‘Breaking Bad’ That He Considered Arranging His Own Murder So His Kids Could Get His Life Insurance Money

Giancarlo Esposito was so broke before "Breaking Bad" that he considered arranging his own murder so that his children could benefit.

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Stanislav Petrov: The man who prevented World War III

On September 26, 1983, a Soviet military officer named Stanislav Petrov prevented what could have been a catastrophic nuclear war. Petrov was on duty at a Soviet early-warning station when the system reported multiple incoming U.S. missiles. Protocol demanded he report the alert as an attack, which could have triggered a Soviet nuclear retaliation.

But Petrov sensed something was off. The system reported only five missiles — an illogical number for a first strike. Trusting his gut and reasoning that it was likely a false alarm, he chose to classify it as a malfunction and held off reporting it as an attack.

He was right. The warning was caused by a satellite malfunction, not an actual missile launch. His calm judgment likely prevented a full-scale nuclear war at the height of Cold War tensions.

1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident - Wikipedia

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A Beluga whale from the bottom

Beluga whales don’t have legs or knees, and the appearance of “knees” in some images is actually an illusion caused by the way their abdominal fat pads move and appear when they swim.

These fat pads can tense and move during swimming maneuvers, and the way they appear in certain angles or movements can create the illusion of “knees”.

 

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This is Sir Nicholas Winton - The hero who saved 669 Czech Jewish children from the Holocaust and provided them with a secret escape route.

He is famously known as Britain's Schindler

He also wrote to U.S. politicians such as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, asking them to take more children. He said that two thousand more might have been saved if they had helped, but only Sweden took any besides those sent to Britain.

The last group of children, scheduled to leave Prague on 1 September 1939, was unable to depart. With Hitler's invasion of Poland on the same day, the Second World War had begun. Of the 250 children due to leave on that train, only two survived the war.

Of the 669 children saved from the Holocaust through Winton's efforts, more than 370 have never been traced.

'Britain's Schindler': The man who saved 669 children from the Nazis

Watch the incredible moment when Nicholas Winton is reunited with some of the children he rescued from the Holocaust in World War Two.

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Between the years 2011 and 2012, a team of thieves stole approx. 2,700 tonnes of maple syrup from a strategic maple syrup reserve maintained in Quebec. The stolen maple syrup was valued at nearly $18 million at the time. Richard Vallières, the accused ringleader, was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

 

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Inflation in Türkiye.

 

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A hiker watches the eruption of Mount St. Helens from Mount Adams, almost 40 miles to the east.

 

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Dinner in a cave sea restaurant in Grotta Palazzese, Polignano a Mare, Italy.

 

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100,000,000,000,000 dollars

 

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The skull of a hippo in comparison to a human skull

 

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3D shark tattoos

 

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The world's first 3d printed bridge, Amsterdam

This had been there for two years, until the permit expired in 2023. The city nor the residents wanted it back. Most thought it was pretentious, and it didn't fit the historic context of the neighbourhood. Also, it didn't fit very well, and had a little step that people fell over.

It replaced an old bridge, that has been restored since and placed back on this location.

 

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In 2017, Dr. Paul Locus dressed as Joker, delivers baby on Halloween

Doctor dressed as Joker delivers baby on Halloween (and mom was thrilled!)

A Tennessee family with a sense of humor pleaded with their obstetrician to stay in costume as the Joker to deliver their baby daughter on Halloween.

www.today.com

 

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A 4,500-year-old road network in Saudi Arabia

These are typically referred to as Key-Hole pendants by archeologists. They may have been used as burial places, but more likely, they were used to either corral flocks or used as dead-end traps for wild animals.

Spectacular Images Reveal Mysterious Stone Structures in Saudi Arabia

Between Oct. 27 and 29 of 2017, an archaeological team took nearly 6,000 aerial photographs of around 200 archaeological sites in the Al-Ula region of Saudi Arabia. This photo gallery shows a small sample of sites the team photographed.

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Saturn's Death Star: Mimas captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft

 

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Locals in Venzone, Italy, 1950, posing with their naturally mummified ancestors, who had been found years before in the crypt of a church there.

Mysterious Italy: The Mummies of Venzone - LIFE

One of the stranger photosets in the LIFE archives was shot in a bucolic small town in Northern Italy—one in which the ancient architecture was not the only thing that was well-preserved. The town’s name is Venzone, and among its claims to fame are a collection of mummified remains that date...

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Russian traditional clothes in the 1880s.

 

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Famous lobotomy patients - Glore Psychiatric Museum

 

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Karnak Temple Complex, Egypt

Construction at the complex began during the reign of Senusret I (reigned 1971–1926 BC) in the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000–1700 BC) and continued into the Ptolemaic Kingdom (305–30 BC).

 

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strategic maple syrup reserve

That's the most Canadian thing I've ever heard.

 

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In 2017, Dr. Paul Locus dressed as Joker, delivers baby on Halloween

Doctor dressed as Joker delivers baby on Halloween (and mom was thrilled!)

A Tennessee family with a sense of humor pleaded with their obstetrician to stay in costume as the Joker to deliver their baby daughter on Halloween.

www.today.com

"It's not about delivering a baby. It's about delivering a message."

 

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Famous lobotomy patients - Glore Psychiatric Museum

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

-Tom Waits