🇸🇪 Two men touching up the paint on the letters of an old runestone, Kungshållet, Sweden, c. 1930s. The inscription says: "Alrik, Sigrid's son, raised the stone in memory of his father Spjut, who had been in the west, broken down and fought in townships." Sweden has over 3,000 old runestones, most of them over 1,000 years old.

Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road founder) after being pardoned. Spent over 11 years in prison.

The underwater forest of Lake Kaindy, where the trunks of giant firs rise out of the turquoise surface of the lake like the masts of sunken ships.

Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, 1866

In Indonesia, a crocodile was filmed as if trying to lure people into the water. The crocodile was filmed in Indonesia as if trying to lure people into the water.

Raccoons capable of grasping and holding various objects with their front paws, such as washing their food.

Human remains of Bulgarians killed by the Ottomans in the Batak Massacre in 1876, during which roughly 5,000 civilians were brutally butchered.

💧 And they say water doesn't burn

Bacteria living in water produce methane gas as they eat, which builds up under the ice. Methane burns beautifully.

The black-and-white belly is vital to the leopard to keep its victims from noticing it when it's hiding in a tree.

Members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) tending the graves of fallen British soldiers in a cemetery at Abbeville, 9 February, 1918.

Guy standing next to a massive block of ice during the Yukon River spring breakup.

Koalas are solitary, but they meet their mates during the mating season. Fewer males of the species are born, so entire harems of up to 5 females gather around them.

A football match between the Washington Redskins and the Chicago Bears, 1937

16 years ago today, Bitcoin was created by a mysterious engineer with the username ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ In 2008, he went public & DENIED creating Bitcoin. In 2011 he completely vanished & hasn’t been seen since. He has 1.1 million bitcoins in his cold wallet worth nearly $100 BILLION

Nature is always surprising.

🌱The leaves of the Barbados nut or Jatropha curcas.

🇺🇸 Ice skating on the Reflecting Pool in Washington DC, 1920s.

Perfect social package: the first gold medallist in Philippine history, Carlos Yulo, will receive impressive gifts from the government as a token of gratitude

The list includes:
- Lifetime free colonoscopy after 45 years of age
- New flat
- New house
- $200,000 in cash
- iPhone 16
- Free biscuits for life from a local bakery
- Free food for life from local restaurants
- Free engineering education

Blue lobster

Found along the Atlantic coast of North America, mainly from Labrador (Canada) to New Jersey (USA). It is among the largest modern crustaceans, reaching a weight of 20 kg and a length of more than 60 cm.

New Zealand mounted rifles on the move in the Ottoman controlled holy land, 1917.

The age of a sequoia compared to that of a young person

The fact that parrots live for 100 years is nothing more than a myth. In reality, the average lifespan of birds is 50 years, although some of them live to be 70 years old.