Chichen Itza, 1896 to today

Ever seen a Tornado Kick? Shit s crazy

🇬🇧 An airplane flies over the houses of Parliament, London, 1920s (photo by pilot Alfred G Buckham)

Pavel Durov said that Telegram has become profitable for the first time in 10 years of operation. In 2024, the messenger's revenues exceeded $1 billion.

Tigers cannot purr

Since they have an elastic, stretching ligament in the larynx area. And it only allows them to make a resounding roar.

A Mexican auxiliary battalion (fighting on the Republican side) marching through Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, late 1930s.

It rained drones in Guangzhou, China. Due to interference, more than 6 hundred devices, raised for the sake of a holiday show, fell into the river.

Cloudy, possible precipitation in the form of drones

Yunnan Province, China

🇬🇧 RAF pilots scramble to their planes upon word of approaching German aircraft, WWII, c. 1940-1941

Real pain, can be mended, but never repaired. ❤️‍🩹

Gophers make their dwellings in meadows, pastures and fields

Length of burrows depends on landscape and gopher species. And in sandy soils it can be up to 3 meters deep and 15 meters long.

US soldiers of the 347th infantry in line for chow, Belgium, January 1945.

💡 The process of making a light bulb

Briefly about the photographers who give us beautiful photos of volcanoes.

A boy playing cowboys and Indians, 1960s

vampire slaying kits from the 19th century

Zulu warriors, c. 1906

A North Carolina man is accused of a $10 million fraud scheme using artificial intelligence to create fake music.

Michael Smith, 52, allegedly created hundreds of thousands of fake songs by nonexistent bands and uploaded them to streaming services. He then used bots to play these songs repeatedly, mimicking real listeners.
Smith started by uploading his own music, but then moved on to using AI to create tracks en masse. He generated plausible names for songs and artists to avoid detection. By 2019, Smith was earning about $110,000 a month in royalties.

Prosecutors say the scheme ran from 2017 to 2024. Smith faces charges of wire fraud and money laundering. He faces up to 20 years in prison.