Dadarao Bilhore ever since his son lost his life due to potholes

Nightjars are birds of prey.

They go hunting at night. Insects such as mosquitoes, beetles, bedbugs and butterflies are their prey.

Nightjars also like to eat flies and gadflies, which are most often found near grazing livestock. Hence the legend according to which in the evenings the nightjar sucked milk from the goats, which is how the name of the bird came about.

A chain gang of prison laborers on the march, c. 1910s-1930s

When you think it’s over…but your blood comes through.

🇬🇧 David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, 1907

🏙 Giant skyscraper stabiliser

The Taipei 101 skyscraper is equipped with a tuned mass damper weighing 728 tonnes that stabilises it during strong winds and earthquakes. During a magnitude 6.9 earthquake, it appears that the damper is moving, but it is actually the building that is moving while the damper remains stationary.

Two women buy cocaine in capsules from a dealer, Weimar Republic, Berlin, 1929.

The streets of Karlsbad, Austro-Hungary, 1890s

Zimbabwe banknotes

Although pandas live a little longer in captivity, they almost always refuse to breed there.

Children line up to buy sweets from a cart in Chicago, March 1949 (kodachrome)

This video was filmed in April of 1896 outside the #EmpireTheatre, #LeicesterSquare, #London. I'd give anything to see the pubs that were trading during the time. Make sure you turn up the sound. As loud as London used to be, the sounds of the past are far better than the vehicle ridden noise box of today.

Marmosets are the world's smallest monkeys

Sometimes weighing less than a hundred grams 😌

And its tail is as long as a monkey's torso. It is twisted and has no grasping function. But when the monkey jumps from branch to branch, it has a balancing function.

An Ouled Nail woman from Algeria, 1907

100% aggression 0% damage 😱

A view of statues around a pool at the 1939 New York World Fair

🖱 Probably the most useful mouse and keyboard pad you can think of

The tiger's fangs are sometimes even longer than human fingers. It grips its prey firmly with them and then gobbles it, separating the meat from the bones with its rough tongue.