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The first simulated image of a black hole, calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978
 

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36 years ago, a dog fell from a 13 floor killing a woman. Another woman approaches to help, gets run over by a bus. A man witness the whole incident, dies of a heart attack.

 

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October 24, 1917 | The first known evidence of exoplanets is unknowingly recorded at the Mount Wilson Observatory

It's a map of the different intensities of the different wavelengths (colours) of light emitted from a white dwarf (the core of a dead star that used to be roughly the same size as our sun. very small and not that bright, but extremely hot). Every element when in a gaseous or vapour state (or a fine enough dust) emits and absorbs light in very specific wavelengths, known as it's emission or absorption spectrum. You'd expect a white dwarf to emit mostly white light (not in vapour state), but that map shows that there's some dips, or 'fangs'. This is caused by debris ( from an exoplanet in this case) containing calcium absorbing some wavelengths of light unique to calcium, turning the spectrum from the expected spectrum of a white dwarf to end up with these 'fangs'.

 

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Assuming there's no topological weirdness in our Universe, its Unobservable section must be at least 23 trillion light years in diameter, and contain a volume of space that's over 15 million times as large as the Observable Universe
 

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The most detailed model of a human cell to date; this is a 'cellular landscape cross-section through a eukaryotic cell.’ - by Evan Ingersoll and Gael McGill
 

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The Persian princess: In 2000 Pakistani scientists announced the discovery of a mummy thought to be a daughter of Xerxes I. The find caused a diplomatic dispute, with both Pakistan and Iran claiming ownership. Museum curators later found out that she was a murder victim...hit by a car in 1996

The Edhi Foundation took custody of the body, and on 5 August 2005, announced that it was to be interred with proper burial rights. However, police and other government officials never responded to numerous requests, and it was not until 2008 that the foundation finally carried out the burial.
 

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The first Porsche, the “Egger-Lohner electric vehicle, C.2 Phaeton model”, which ran on Vienna on 26 of June 1898, was found in a shed in Austria 2014. Today is in the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. Motor still worked.
 

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Weapons confiscated by police after the infamous "Battle of Glasgow" (March 9, 1914), when police constables and detectives battled a team of martial arts trained radical suffragette bodyguards on the stage of St. Andrew's Hall in Glasgow, before a stunned audience of about 4000 witnesses.

The immediate aftermath was that the police succeeded in arresting Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst - who had been a fugitive from the law under the so-called "Cat and Mouse Act" - and the meeting carried on without her, after which a large party of Suffragettes and audience members marched from the hall to the local jail Pankhurst had been taken to and staged a massive protest there, which was eventually broken up by mounted police.
 

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Japanese petrol station have this device that you need to touch before refueling to discharge static electricity.
 

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This is the Chevrotain, standing at around 30cm tall, it is the world’s smallest hoofed mammal.
 

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Assuming there's no topological weirdness in our Universe, its Unobservable section must be at least 23 trillion light years in diameter, and contain a volume of space that's over 15 million times as large as the Observable Universe
Wait...

...if that's the unobservable section, how are we observing it in that pic?