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

🐧 Just penguins holding hands on the beach.

It could have been us, but you have to work again.

A meerkat and a scorpion.

The US 15th regiment parading up Fifth Avenue, New York City, en route to an Army camp in New York State in 1916.

The spotted platypus or crocodile fish inhabits the Red Sea

However, despite its dangerous appearance, it never attacks people, but it can cause harm with its sharp spines or scales.

An Austro-Hungarian alpine soldier, WWI

The world's thinnest paper - just 0.02 mm thick - is made in the small Japanese village of Hidaka

It is about twice as thin as a human hair. It is made from the fibre of the paper silkworm by just ten employees.

Among the main customers are restorers who restore antique books, paintings and documents for museums.