The Vasa warship raised from the seabed after 333 years. Stockholm, Sweden, April 24, 1961

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The tallest wave ever recorded by humans was spotted near Japan's Ishigakai Island in 1971. It reached a staggering 85 meters in height.

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Execution in Japan, 19th century.
Felix Beato.

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Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs holding the Apple I computer.

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Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich Romanov (seated on the right side) in an electric car designed by Jean-Jacques Heilman, during a drive through the Bois de Boulogne. 1898.

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The longest prison sentence in history was handed down to Chamaiporn Thipchaso, a Thai national known in her country as the queen of underground business. On July 27, 1989, she and seven accomplices were each sentenced to 141,078 years behind bars for orchestrating multi-million-dollar banking frauds. In total, the single court ruling amounted to a staggering 1,128,624 years in prison.

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Serb soldier armed with a PPSh-41 submachine gun during the Bosnian War. 1992.

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For Lenin’s winter trips to Gorki and hunting excursions, one of his Rolls-Royces was fitted with a caterpillar track system. The development of such vehicles began even before the revolution by Adolf Kegresse, who had served in the tsar’s auto fleet. He had previously adapted Mercedes, Packards, and Russo-Balt vehicles with tracks.

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The largest leaf ever discovered from a dicotyledonous plant (in the Amazon rainforests, South America).

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"3a on board — 58 megatons." The cockpit of the Tu-95V turboprop strategic missile-carrying bomber during the detonation of the 58-megaton thermonuclear aerial bomb «Kuzkina mat», 39 kilometers from ground zero. Site: the Sukhoy Nos nuclear test range, October 30, 1961.

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The staircase at Balamand University in Lebanon

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Albert Einstein, 1920.

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A pack of zebras, 1890s.

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CRITICAL: During the construction of the Great Wall of China in the 3rd century BCE, around 400,000 people died. Among the dead were slaves and soldiers—many of whom were buried within the wall itself. Over the centuries, the structure was repeatedly rebuilt and repaired, and the version we see today was largely restored during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).

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Ma Barker — the matriarch of American gangsters, mastermind behind the infamous Barker Gang. She met her end alongside her son Fred in a brutal, hours-long shootout with FBI agents who had surrounded her home in 1935.

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No European city would bury him. Niccolò Paganini (Oct 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840) was a legendary violinist shrouded in myth. His eerie look, temper, and rumored pact with the devil fueled dark legends—though he supported charity. His father, Antonio, locked young Niccolò in a dark shed to force practice; once, a doctor declared him dead, but he awoke in his coffin. His mother wept; the next day, his father made him play again. Paganini died at 57 of tuberculosis, plucking his violin till the end. After death, his coffin was moved repeatedly—locals refused him burial, fearing his cursed soul. His son fought for years to find him rest. Only in 1896—56 years after his death—was he finally laid to rest in Parma, Italy, after Pope Pius IX approved a Christian burial decades earlier. A genius tormented in life and death.

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Death triumphs.

Such plaques were placed on house walls during plague outbreaks — Augsburg, early 17th century.

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Timber rafting, Pudozh district, Karelia, 1973

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Mobile hair salon on a beach in Pribrezhnoye. Everything for the comfort of vacationers. Crimea. USSR. 1979.

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Strength test of a pipe. The inventor sits inside. Canada, 1920.

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In 1806, a chicken in Leeds, England, began laying eggs inscribed with the words «Jesus is coming». News spread rapidly, sparking fears of the imminent apocalypse. It later emerged that the bird’s owner had orchestrated the hoax—etching the message onto eggs with acid and reinserting them into the hen’s oviduct.

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