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The orchid species overall produces many amazing flowers but probably none is more so than the Anguloa Uniflora which has flowers that resemble swaddled babies
[read more: buff.ly/2tvLypf]
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The waterfall swing is an interactive installation what combines art and science. Riders pass through openings in a waterfall created by precisely monitoring their path via axle-housed encoders
[read more: waterfallswing.com]
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In the past 10 years, Japan has moved at a tremendous pace to install elevators at subway and train stations for the disabled and the elderly. These wheelchair accessible elevators are unique to Japan
[read more: buff.ly/3G1WQXW]
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The lyrebird of the genus Menura can imitate the calls of at least 20 species of birds and more interestingly, other sounds it hears. David Attenborough shows one imitating a variety of unexpected sounds
[full video, BBC Earth: buff.ly/32Qrehn]
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This impressive video of a lightning apparently striking two cars, is a proof you're relatively safe not thanks to the tires, but because a car is a Faraday cage
[read more: buff.ly/3bSqKkL]
[📹 LSC/Michaelle Paul Whalen, Florida, July 1, 2022]
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The Giant Alaskan Malamute is a selectively bred Malamute that exceeds 70 kg in weight & 70 cm of height, originally bred to pull heavy goods between cities throughout Alaska. They have been recorded to pull loads up to 500 kg
[📹: buff.ly/3Rbvf9O]
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Extra vertebrae and free floating clavicle bones allow cats to pass their body through incredibly narrow spaces. Basically they can squeeze through any space larger than their skull: bit.ly/2pU9aU7 [source of the gif: buff.ly/3Q1Dwwd]
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Paul Barton is a concert-pianist playing music to blind, injured and orphaned elephants with extraordinary results
[read more: buff.ly/2ncGGBL]
[videos: buff.ly/2I0DXqH]
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Japanese fireworks, particularly the bursting cored chrysanthemum fireworks, are said to be the most exquisite and beautiful in the world. They feature layers of differently colored explosives resulting in interesting effects buff.ly/2ZSOrQn [gif: buff.ly/3lipitL]
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The white raven that was thought to be a legend but inhabits a coastal segment of British Columbia, Canada. These ravens are not albino, but leucistic, or lacking any of several different types of pigment (not simply melanin) buff.ly/2IpD6N2 | buff.ly/2EgBxyB
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The curious story of the public drivers from San Luis Potosí, Mexico, who were put on bicycle to know how bad it is to pass by scraping cyclists
[read more (ES): buff.ly/3Gfzoqy]
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The Royal Gorge is a canyon located west of Cañon City, Colorado. The bridge crosses the gorge 291 m above the Arkansas River and held the record of highest bridge in the world from 1929 until 2001
[📹 Marcos Parra: buff.ly/3ewIWl3]
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A peacock can fly despite its large size. Its tail is up to 2 meters long, about 60% of its body length. Despite these odd proportions, the bird flies just fine, if not very far [read more: buff.ly/2V2ZNQC-] [clip by Harsha Narasimhamurthy]
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The emperor penguin is the tallest & heaviest of all living penguin species. An adult reaches 122 cm & ~30 kg. This is a 97 day old chick already at 14.1 kg. It has a special type of feather called down, lightweight & fluffy
[📹 Wakayama Adventure World]
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This was published 110 years ago Today
[read more, fact check by Snopes.com: buff.ly/2w85bUR]
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The red-capped manakin's "moonwalk" to impress the ladies
[source and full video: buff.ly/2uA52f9]
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Kinetic artist Reuben Margolin creates kinetic sculptures that seek to combine the sensuousness of nature with the logic of math. This is a mechanical caterpillar with charriot
[full video: buff.ly/3GSkD9F]
[site: reubenmargolin.com]
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The three ancestral species in the genus Citrus associated with modern Citrus cultivars are the mandarin orange, pomelo, and citron. Almost all of the common commercially important citrus fruits are hybrids involving these three species with each other buff.ly/38nLgDE
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It seems unreal. On January 1, 2022 snow fell in the deserts in the northwestern Saudi Arabia, in the town of Jebel al Lawz in the province of Tabuk. This is what it looked like under the desert sands
[read more: buff.ly/3F6wQZA]
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The smell of rain is pure chemistry [read more: buff.ly/2yDTy7r]
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A crinkle crankle wall is an unusual type of garden wall built in a serpentine shape typically found in the UK. It economizes on bricks because it can be made just one brick thin. If a wall this thin was made in a straight line, it would easily topple over ow.ly/4LY850zYx9T
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'Killing Time' is a sculpture by artist Eric Mesplé: it combines the iconic use of ferrofluid and signature metalwork. As a viewer approaches the sculpture, sensors detect their distance from the sculpture increasing the upward draw of the ferrofluid ow.ly/PkU330n5PzC
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This is a meteorite: the mixture of the iron-nickel alloy and olivine originated from a small protoplanet out of the dawn of the Solar System. And, bonus, it's perfectly polished [source, read more: buff.ly/2OIhfag]
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Kayleigh Grant was collecting rubbish from the sea, roughly two miles off the Hawaiian shore when she found a tiny octopus using plastic for a home
[full video + read more: buff.ly/3PVNX3T]
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The bearded vulture is the only known animal whose diet is almost exclusively bone [read more: buff.ly/2FTYRrC]
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