🇬🇧 Nelson's Column under construction at Trafalgar Square, London. 1844, colourized

When Japan executes criminals by hanging, 3 wall buttons are simultaneously pressed by 3 people so none know which of them opened the trap door

Giant watermelon grown in China

Baby ocean sunfish are about the size of a bead, while adults can grow up to 2200 lbs.

Housing ad from 1955

Making Cocaine.

This 1977 photograph captures the moment that a perfectly preserved Woolly Mammoth mummy is unearthed near the Kolyma River in Siberia. At its time of death, the cub was approximately 7 months old, and died around 40,000 years ago. Researchers later nicknamed the specimen “Dima”.

An ancient Roman slave's collar with the innoscription, "Catch me! I have escaped! If you catch me and take me to my master Zoninus, you will receive a solidus (Roman gold coin)!", 4th century AD

A tiny, newly born turtle, seeing the world for the first time

Jaguar catches the scent of a peccary in the lowland Amazon.

Cotton-top tamarin🐒
Cotton-top tamarins are named for the shock of white hair encircling their heads, a look reminiscent of Albert Einstein. Roughly the size of a squirrel, cotton-top tamarins also have white chests and bellies, while their backs and tails are covered in long black and brown fur. They have claw-like nails, which are critical to jumping from tree to tree in their forest habitat

Pakistan's unique and dangerous way of transporting Gas in plastic Bags.

Real estate agent explains the housing market in America.

Russian soldier gets his bell rung by a snipers bullet ricocheting off his helmet

The world's most gorgeous suicide

On May 1, 1947, 24-year-old Evelyn McHale jumped off the Empire State Building observation deck, flying 86 floors and hitting the roof of a parked UN limousine.

Pyramid of captured German helmets

It was set up on Park Avenue, leading to the central station in New York, of 12,000 helmets. Photo dated 1918.

A Sikh woman effortlessly carrying a basket of British merchants on her back, West Bengal, 1903.

The helmet of a 17th century Japanese general, made in the shape of a dragonfly.