Swedish Major Eric Bonde smokes a cigarette after being ambushed and shot twice, Congo, 1961

Snow Leopard goes over cliff chasing a goat and survives

The hand of a young orangutan

The door dining area of the Alcobaca monastery in Portugal was made narrow so that monks who got too fat were forced to go into fasting.

In the UK you sometimes see these "wavy" brick walls. As weird as it may seem, this shape uses FEWER bricks than a straight wall. A straight wall needs at least two layers of bricks to make it solid, but the wavy wall is fine thanks to the arch support provided by the waves.

This was a machine patented in 1965, to deliver a baby using centrifugal force. The machine would spin the woman until the baby came out, which would be caught in a net.

Baby Alligator practicing death roll

Frog swallowed a firefly

Russian and United States presidents

Ancient Tamil boomerang axe looks like it's defying physics.

Have you ever wondered where beeswax comes from? This is a very difficult image to get: it is the moment when a bee is secreting the wax from its abdomen through its cherry glands

Elementary school boys in the middle of a break in their computer class, 1980s.

Tale of two countries

European countries that never recorded temperatures below -30

United States Race & Ethnicity