2 September 1945: Japanese delegation signs documents for unconditional surrender aboard US battleship Missouri in Tokyo bay, officially ending WWII.

✨ How light passes through different lenses

In one example, in passing, you can also see the workings of the human eye collecting light into a single point.

Deer calves are able to stand on their feet immediately after birth.

A lady in the fashion of the 1880s

Why does a viper move like a millipede?

That's one of the ways snakes move - in a straight line or "caterpillar". The snake uses the large scales on its belly as oars. Dips them into the sand, then strong muscles move the scales toward the tail

View of an yet undamaged Polish city from the cockpit of a German medium bomber aircraft, likely a Heinkel He 111 P, during the invasion of Poland in September 1939.

A plane with no seats

Diamond Beach in Iceland 🇮🇸

🇭🇺 Two young Hungarian Jewish boys await selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944, colourized. From May 15 to July 9, 1944, Hungarian gendarmerie officials, under the guidance of German SS officials, deported around 440,000 Jews from Hungary. Most were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where, upon arrival and after selection, SS functionaries killed the majority of them in gas chambers.

Scientists discover fossilized rainforest in a coal mine

An astrild is a cute, more often tropical, bird of tiny size.

🇬🇧 Britain’s King George VI broadcasts to the British nation on the first evening of the war, on September 3, 1939, in London. Britain declared war on Germany on Sept. 3rd, shortly after Germany invaded Poland, Britain’s ally, on Sept. 1st.

👻 The game Hauntify has been released for Apple Vision Pro

The game's AI scans a room and adds ghosts to it. The creators of the app claim that Hauntify uses a special algorithm that identifies ideal places for spirits to appear and thus scare players.

Doesn't want to get his nose dirty☺️

Raccoons are actually very clean animals, so they are quite common as pets.

Catholic women protesting outside the German embassy in New York, 1935.
Under Hitler’s regime Catholic schools, newspapers, political parties and youth organizations were eliminated, and thousands of members of Catholic political parties like the German Centre Party and Catholic Bavarian People's Party were arrested.
The Nazis also decreed the dissolution of all abbeys and monasteries in the Reich.

🦝 A clever raccoon uses tools to get out of a rubbish bin

A typical day in Iceland 🇮🇸 Just look at the strength of the wind!

Jerusalem, 1915

How fast a CT Scan machine really spins

A tiger is the only cat that is not afraid of water. Moreover, they are excellent swimmers and can cover 5-6 km on water.

Civilian prisoners taken by the Germans during the invasion of Poland, September 1939