Petrified wood containing turquoise opal found in Queensland, Australia.

A family on their front porch in North Carolina, c. 1950

Panama Canal

Pigs do not wallow in mud for being sloppy, it's the animals' way of fighting parasites that live on their skin - when the mud dries out, it falls off along with the pests.

🇬🇧 Feeding chickens in a village in the UK, c. 1910

This ancient technique is used to jump from heights safely

A German soldier sets fire to houses in Warsaw, WWII. Following the Warsaw uprising against Nazi occupation, the Germans deported most of the city's residents. Special groups of German combat engineers were dispatched throughout the city in order to burn and demolish the remaining buildings. By January 1945, between 85% and 90% of the buildings had been completely destroyed.

Random picture of Avril Lavigne found on one of Osama bin Ladens drives. He had a lot of western media saved on his drives, ranging from PC games to movies, music, etc.

Lemurs can fall into prolonged hibernation if necessary, with their body temperature compared to the ambient one.

British author J.R.R Tolkien, c. 1973 (colourised). Tolkien became famous for such works as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

Life is unfair sometimes :'( (Abby and Brittany Hensel are conjoined twins. Born in 1990 in Minnesota, they share a single body but have two heads, each controlling one side.)

How can you not love camping when the world is full of places like this❓

Norway looks stunning.

🇩🇪 A group of children, Germany, 1950s

A female Jaguars warning call

The dragon trees of Socotra Island, so named for their red resin resembling dragon's blood.

Youths at a festival in Petrovec, a Slovak settlement 40 miles northwest of Belgrade, the Yugoslav capital, display a large picture of Tito, 1950.

Tiger's Nest, Bhutan

Female mantises bite off the heads of males far from every mating. Moreover, the probability of cannibalism is much higher in stressful conditions for females.

A lady in the fashion of the 1880s