14 Fascinating Photos to Pique Your Interest

Nathan Johnson Published 12/17/2022 in ftw

The world is more interesting than you know. You just have to pick your head up from those darn memes and see it for what it is, a big and beautiful ball of oddities.

From the way we store our records, to the way we party, the world is never short on weirdness. So take a virtual tour of the world from the comfort of your phone and see something new today.

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NLAW containers
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Australian Tankers with their M1A1 Abrams displaying different rounds
3.
Grocery store, helping prevent scams
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Poachers caught red-handed by an all-female unit of rangers in Zimbabwe
5.
Supermarket made a garden on their roof and is distributing the goods directly in store!
6.
Abandoned Chuck E. Cheese animatronic found in a landfill
7.
Radioactive cars from the Fukushima disaster slowly being eaten by nature
8.
The speed camera lottery in Stockholm, Sweden. Drive at or under the speed limit and you’ll be entered into a lottery where the prize fund comes from the fines that speeders pay. Average speed reduced from 32 km/h to 25 km/h (a reduction of 22%).
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In 2003 Ron Hunt, an American construction worker fell off a ladder and landed face first on a 1.5 inch drill bit that went through his left eye and out at the back of his skull. He did not lose any of his cognitive ability as the a drill bit “pushed his brain out of the way.” Doctors struggled to find a solution to remove the foreign object from his skull and contemplated simply cutting it off. They decided to simply unscrew it and Ron Hunt was entirely conscious during the operation.
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Moscow, 1991. When Metallica played for a crowd of 1.6 million people
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The book of names, holds the name of every known holocaust victim
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Climbers attempting to summit Mt Everest
13.
This Colombian farmer Found 600 million dollars buried on his farm.
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Transparent Solar Panels Will Turn Windows Into Green Energy Collectors

1.
NLAW containers
2.
Australian Tankers with their M1A1 Abrams displaying different rounds
3.
Grocery store, helping prevent scams
4.
Poachers caught red-handed by an all-female unit of rangers in Zimbabwe
5.
Supermarket made a garden on their roof and is distributing the goods directly in store!
6.
Abandoned Chuck E. Cheese animatronic found in a landfill
7.
Radioactive cars from the Fukushima disaster slowly being eaten by nature
8.
The speed camera lottery in Stockholm, Sweden. Drive at or under the speed limit and you’ll be entered into a lottery where the prize fund comes from the fines that speeders pay. Average speed reduced from 32 km/h to 25 km/h (a reduction of 22%).
9.
In 2003 Ron Hunt, an American construction worker fell off a ladder and landed face first on a 1.5 inch drill bit that went through his left eye and out at the back of his skull. He did not lose any of his cognitive ability as the a drill bit “pushed his brain out of the way.” Doctors struggled to find a solution to remove the foreign object from his skull and contemplated simply cutting it off. They decided to simply unscrew it and Ron Hunt was entirely conscious during the operation.
10.
Moscow, 1991. When Metallica played for a crowd of 1.6 million people
11.
The book of names, holds the name of every known holocaust victim
12.
Climbers attempting to summit Mt Everest
13.
This Colombian farmer Found 600 million dollars buried on his farm.
14.
Transparent Solar Panels Will Turn Windows Into Green Energy Collectors