An Iranian blogger has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a dot tweet that garnered more likes than the Ayatollah's post

Hossein Shanbehzadeh was sentenced to 12 years in prison for responding to a post by Ayatollah Khamenei with a dot alone and garnering more likes, leading to his arrest. He was sentenced to 5 years "for propaganda in favour of Israel", 4 years "for insulting Islamic shrines", 2 years for "spreading false information" and another 1 year for "anti-state propaganda".

The blogger's account has been deactivated and his lawyer intends to appeal the sentence.

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Crowds cheer American aviator Charles Lindbergh in his plane "The Spirit of St. Louis", 1927.

Kiribati is the only country that is in all 4 hemispheres!

Sometimes turtles confuse the land and the back of a hippopotamus.

German soldiers publicly executing prominent Polish citizens in the Market Square of Bydgoszcz, as part of the mass shootings of Polish intelligentsia (teachers, priests, physicians, and other prominent members of Polish society) after the invasion of Poland, 9 September 1939. The mass murder operations of the Intelligenzaktion resulted in the killing of 100,000 Polish people in the early days of WWII.

A flower show in Aberdeen, Scotland, King Charles opening it and the wily scissors.

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The slamming of the soap cylindrical membrane in the slow-mo.

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A family outside their mountain cabin in West Virginia, c. 1900

Art with your hands

A Sephardi Jewish couple from Sarajevo in traditional clothing, 1900

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