A powerful magnetic storm gave us very beautiful northern lights in unusual places such as Croatia.

Incredible camouflage in the wild😄

🇸🇪 Christina of Sweden, daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, who ruled as the Queen of Sweden in her own right from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. Her conversion to Catholicism and refusal to marry led her to relinquish her throne and move to Rome.

🤓 Zhen Xian Bao - The Book of Threads

The pinnacle of the art of Chinese origami. Originally used to carry sewing supplies. But the maths behind such a book is so complex that even NASA now use it.

Russian soldier gets his bell rung by a snipers bullet ricocheting off his helmet

🇲🇽 Mexican musicians, 1923

The Wilson brand has launched airless basketballs.
The balls are 3D-printed, and most importantly, they bounce almost silently.

The kookaburra is one of Australia's national symbols, along with the platypus and the koala.

King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden leading a cavalry charge at the Battle of Lutzen during the Thirty Years War, November 1632. This battle is considered one of the most important battles of the Thirty Years War. A combined Swedish-German army led by Gustavus Adolphus narrowly defeated an Imperial force under Albrecht von Wallenstein. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, with Gustavus among the dead.

🪈 The special cane transforms into a comfortable seat.

Some sheep exhibit homosexuality

And females, accompanied by a male fetus in the womb, are infertile and resemble males.

Balinese dancers, Indonesia, 1941

Most downvoted comment of the entire reddit history

The Gaur, the world's largest bulls, is a member of the genus of the same name.

British stage and film actress Lily Elsie, 1910s (colourised)

A random documentary from 1999 includes FElon Mucks at age 29, prior to his cosmetic surgery and Testosterone replacement therapy

White raven chicks are eaten by their mothers a few days after hatching. Some manage to escape, but then they have to endure humiliation from their fellows for the rest of their lives.

🇫🇷 The streets of Paris and the Paris Opera House, 1920s (original autochrome colour photo)

Sharon Lopaotka was a woman in the 90’s who often emailed men asking them to kill her. She ended up meeting a man named Robert Glass who would follow through with her request. He pled guilty and was sentenced to 36-53 months on a voluntary manslaughter charge

The space shuttle's thermal plate at 2200° can be picked up.

American Army Lt. Richard K. Jones sharing his food rations with pair of young Japanese children found hiding in an abandoned tomb, 1945