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12/09/2024

A Swedish Navy Ship camouflaged to blend with its surroundings.

12/09/2024

Russia's first McDonald's on its opening day, January 31, 1990.

12/09/2024

On the morning of April first 1974, residents of the town of Sitka Alaska were going about their day like normal when they suddenly saw something that made them all immediately stop in their tracks.

The large volcano right next in Sitka, Alaska, called Mount Edgecumb was smoking and look like it was about to erupt.

Since it hadn't erupted in more than 4000 years, and wasn't expected to do so anytime soon, people were shocked and immediately began to panic.

When authorities were notified, the Coast Guard quickly sent out a helicopter to investigate and see just how much time they had before the volcano would blow.

But when the pilot arrived, all he found was a pile of burning tires on the crater, as well as the message April Fools spray painted in 50ft tall letters.

As it turns out, the entire town had just been pranked by a local named Porky Bickar.

He had been carefully planning the prank for 4 entire years, waiting for the perfect April fool's Day, with clear skies and a good view of the volcano.

With the help of a helicopter pilot he'd hired as well as 11 other friends he lifted 70 old tires to the volcano's crater and ignited them.

Although Porky had told the FAA, the fire department and even the police about his prank beforehand, he forgot about the Coast Guard.

12/09/2024

This is James Harrison, also known as the “man with the golden arm”.

He earned this nickname because his blood has helped save the lives of over 2.4 million babies.

Harrison has a rare blood type called Rhesus-negative, which means his blood contains a unique antibody that can be used to treat a dangerous condition called Rhesus disease.

Rhesus disease occurs when an Rh-negative mother carries a baby that is Rh-positive.

During pregnancy, the mother's immune system may recognize the baby's blood as foreign and create antibodies that can attack the baby's red blood cells. This can lead to severe anemia, brain damage, or even death for the baby.

Harrison's blood contains a rare antibody called anti-D, which can be used to prevent Rhesus disease by neutralizing the harmful antibodies in the mother's blood.

His first donation was made in 1954 at the age of 18, and since then he has donated blood every few weeks, making him the most prolific blood donor in Australia.

He started to donate blood back in 1954, aged 18. And in 2018, aged 81 he donated blood for the very last time and officially retired.

Harrison is highly regarded as a national hero in Australia, having earned various accolades, including the esteemed Medal of the Order of Australia.

12/09/2024

A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade, sometime between 1914-1915.

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Old luxury cars in an abandoned garage, United Kingdom.

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In 1140, a German king besieged the town of Weinberg and ordered all the women to leave, saying they could take whatever they could carry on their backs. The women left their belongings and carried their husbands on their shoulders instead. The king kept his word.

12/09/2024

British India tried to get rid of cobras by offering a reward for captured snakes. Locals started breeding cobras and giving them to the government to collect the reward. The British found out and stopped the program. The breeders then released their snakes causing the population to increase.

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The size of a Kiwi egg.

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Between 1995-1998, Emmanuel Nwude posed as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. He then contacted the manager of Banco Noroeste, which is a large bank in Brazil.

His reason? He wanted to sell the bank an airport that was being built in Nigeria.

The price for the airport was $242M. The manager of the bank, Nelson Sakaguchi, was very interested.

But there was just one problem. The airport didnt exist, and there was no plans for it to ever exist.

The bank manager wasn’t aware of this of course and so had no problem handing over $191 million in cash and committing the rest of the fee in the form of future interest.

The bank would eventually catch on though, and Emmanuel was arrested.

12/09/2024

A Soviet soldier feeding condensed milk to a polar bear, 1950. This photo was taken during a routine military expedition in Chukchi Peninsula, Soviet Union.

12/08/2024

A Taiwanese man named Ben Hsu swallowed an AirPod while asleep. When Hsu awoke, he hit Apple's tracking and heard beeps coming from inside his body. Kaohsiung Hospital confirmed that the earbud was in his stomach, and he then passed it from his body naturally. After a wash/dry, his AirPod worked as usual with the battery at 41%.

12/08/2024

Topography of USA.

12/08/2024

Bill Gates has a wall with the periodic table complete with actual samples in his office.

12/08/2024

First known photograph of a tornado, taken on April 26, 1884, in Anderson County, Kansas.

12/08/2024

A cutout of England's A303 road shows change over thousands of years.

12/08/2024

A chemistry book in Sri Lanka has Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad on the cover.

12/08/2024

Japanese Anti-British propaganda, 1940s.

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