Visitors at the ancient half-buried Egyptian temple of Kom Ombo, c. 1880s-1890s (hand tinted lantern slide)

Statue of Neptune (Poseidon), Melenara Beach, in the city of Las Palmas capital of Gran Canaria,one of Spain’s Canary Islands. Looks awesome through the waves!

Sunset in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.

🇳🇱 Ice skating in a Dutch village, c. 1900-1910s

Havasu Falls is a waterfall on Havasu Creek in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, United States.

Due to the inherent excitement of otters, they sometimes catch more prey than can eat.

Helmuth Hübener, a German youth beheaded at age 17 for distributing pamphlets criticizing tyranny and repression in the Nazi regime (colourised photo)

A robot that feeds you from a spoon.

Now you can work without being distracted by little things like snacks.

A humpback whale eats anchovies in Monterey, California.

🇨🇿 A lamplighter in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1970s

Roman baths’ remnants, carved into the rocky coastline. Sliema, Malta.

An axolotl resting under the whirlpool.

Famine stricken people during the famine of 1876–78 in Bangalore, India.

It's snowing in Florida right now

Good luck in the enormous ocean, baby 🐢

A cobbler measures the foot of a woman to take her size for a pair of shoes, 1870s-1890s

The only mummified dodo head

Kiwis are flightless birds.

Also, they have atypical for birds plumage. The feathers are structured more like wool - they are small, short and stiff.

23 February 1836: Mexican general Santa Ana lays siege to the Alamo. On 6 March, after 13 days of fighting, 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders at the Alamo, killing 182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.

The most expensive sex toy in the world is a dildo worth $1.8 million. It's called The Royal Pearl and is covered in 2,000 diamonds, a collection of royal-blue sapphires, and 'very rare' pink diamonds - all of which have been flush-set so you avoid cutting intimate areas

Impalas get a little help from starlings

These birds repel bugs. It is said that an adult starling can eat up to 100 mites and 12,000 mite larvae a day. However, a bird pecking at your ear can be quite annoying