40+ Fascinating And Cool Things From Around The World

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“If you park your car in Korea where construction work is happening, your car will be wrapped in a bag like this.”

The German Parliament

“Artemis 1 at its furthest point in its moon orbit, about 268,000 miles from earth.”

“Newly disclosed PLA Joint Operations Command Center, the brain of the Chinese military”

“World Cup balls getting charged (They need to charge them because the ball has a 3D sensor inside to determine offsides)”

“Stowaways spent 11 days on an oil tanker’s rudder as it sailed from Nigeria to the Canary Islands”

“World Cup mascot, La’eeb, on a TV show in Brazil”

“German climate activists glue themselves to the conductor’s stand at a concert. The stand is removable so they were taken offstage and the concert continued after a 30-second interruption.”

“The Japanese national team left their changing room spotless after their historic World Cup win against Germany.”

“Even after a famous win at the World Cup, Japan fans stayed behind to clean up”

“In 1983, Steve Jobs typed this reply to a letter asking for his autograph.”

“Can’t even enjoy the sunset no more”

“Newly Vietnamese produced drone that could carry up to 8 mortal rounds being show in the Vietnam Defense 2022 in Hanoi”

“US Army soldiers with gold bullions in Iraq, 2003”

“The US Army announced today that the Bell V-280 Valor will replace the UH-60 Black Hawk”

“An Argentine reporter, after her wallet was stolen by a fan in Qatar, stated: “The police asked me how I want to punish the offender and choose between imprisoning him for 5 years or deporting him from the country immediately.”

“The pistol that shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 sparking World War I.”

“In 2002, an intern who stole moon rocks from NASA, spread the rocks on his bed and had sex on them, resulting in the contamination making the rocks virtually useless to the scientific community. He was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison.”

“This is how the world’s tallest woman (7’0.7”) took her first flight. Turkish airlines replaced 6 seats from its economy section with a special stretcher for her to travel on the 13-hour flight to the United States”

“Japan uses sprinklers that spray warm underground water to melt the snow on the roads”

This is Robert Wadlow, the tallest man who ever lived:

Before he died, he measured 8’11” tall.

And here’s Mr. Wadlow with his slightly shorter dad:

This is what the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC looked like in 1907:

And this is what it looked like 100 years later:

This is what one of Shaq’s championship rings looks like on a typical-sized human hand:

These are two of the earliest known photographs of Saturn and Jupiter, taken in the 19th century:

This is what the First Class Lounge on the Titanic looked like:

And this is what the Third Class dining room of the Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic, looked like:

You can buy gigantic safety pins:

That tiny little fellah on the left there is a normal clothes dryer compared to a commercial dryer on its right:

This is the Times Building, the center of New York’s Times Square, under construction in 1903:

And here’s what that same area looks like over a hundred years later:

This monument to the doomed Donner Party shows just how deep the snow the unfortunate travelers had to deal with was:

This is what an intact, peeled egg looks like:

And this is what a big ol’ chunk of a peeled aloe plant looks like:

In 2003, it was discovered that a full-grown, 400-pound bengal tiger was being kept as a pet in a New York City apartment. Police were able to rescue the tiger, and he lived out the rest of his life in an Ohio animal sanctuary: