The more you know!

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Above is the oldest living vine in the world, which has been producing grapes for more than 400 years. It is located in Maribor, overlooking the river Drava.

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I added this fake health brochure about Donald Trump to a doctor’s waiting room

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Pilobolus is a genus of fungi. The spore is called Pilobolus which accelerates 0-45 mph in the first millimeter of flight.

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The permanent lava lake of the Nyiragongo Crater is the biggest in the world with an estimated 282 million cubic feet of lava. The volcano’s rim lies 11,380 feet above the ground. At 1,300 feet deep, the lava lake has created one of the many wonders of the African continent. (Source)

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A mountain on fire in Tuscon, AZ

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Algae-Powered Lamp 

There’s something very special about bioluminescent algae. They soak up sunlight, absorb carbon dioxide, and in return, breathe out oxygen while emitting a soft fluorescent glow. In essence, it’s nature’s all-in-one version of a solar panel, a carbon sink and a light bulb.

With that very thought, French biochemist Pierre Calleja has spent several years working on a way to harness the microorganisms’ special abilities to help mitigate some of planet Earth’s most pressing problems, namely global warming, threats to ecosystems and the need for renewables. 

His solution comes in the shape of a cylindrical algae-powered lamp that requires no electricity and is thus completely self-sufficient, operating through a process wherein all the energy produced during photosynthesis is collected and stored in a battery that helps to power the light during the evenings.

An algae lamp can remove as much CO2 in one year as a tree would in its lifetime. Also, extracting algae from aquatic environments, such as oceans, could potentially save fish and other marine life since rapid increases known as algal blooms have caused widespread mortality due to harmful toxins that are sometimes released. (Source)

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The Forgotten Pyramids of Sudan

More than 200km from the Sudanese capital Khartoum, the remains of an ancient city rise from the arid and inhospitable terrain like a science-fiction film set. Nestled between sand dunes, the secluded pyramids seem to have been forgotten by the modern world, with no nearby restaurants or hotels to cater to tourists.

The Nubian Meroe pyramids, much smaller but just as impressive as the more famous Egyptian ones, are found on the east bank of the Nile river, near a group of villages called Bagrawiyah. The pyramids get their name from the ancient city of Meroe, the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, an ancient African kingdom situated in what is now the Republic of Sudan.

Around 1000 BCE, after the fall of the 24th Egyptian dynasty, the Nubian Kingdom of Kush arose as the leading power in the middle Nile region. The Kushite kings took over and ruled much of Egypt from 712 to 657 BCE. In 300 BCE, when the capital and royal burial ground of the kingdom moved to the Meroe region, the pharaonic tradition of building pyramids to encapsulate the tombs of rulers continued here. (Source)

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Lanterns That Look Like the Moon

Taiwanese design firm Acorn Studio recently announced a new lighting system that mimics the color and shape of a moon. Luna is a dimmable halogen light housed inside a glass fiber and non-toxic latex housing that comes in 7 different sizes ranging from 3.2″ to 23.6″ in diameter. (Source)

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I wanna hang one up outside my girlfriend’s house and turn it on as we’re walking outside at night. Maybe I can scare her. XD

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So cool!

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Nova Gorica (by ursa.b)

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Tolmin Hills (by Domen Jakus)

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Slovenija ♡

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The “Ames Room” illusion messes with our depth perception and is created by slanting the back wall of the room towards the camera and the ceiling downwards. (Source)

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Salar de Uyuni is a magical place. When covered by water, the world’s largest salt flat becomes a mirror, and anyone walking across it appears to be walking on clouds.

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Excuse my inactivity. My friends have been having a shit time recently and so have I, plus I'm quite busy with school. Just so you know~

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The Reed Flute Cave

The Reed Flute cave is a popular tourist attraction in Guilin, China. Inside this water-eroded cave is a spectacular world of various stalactites, stone pillars and rock formations created by carbonate deposition. The multicolored lightning artificially illuminates this natural limestone cave.

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Soča river - Slovenia Photo by Luka Esenko

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Soča! All the water is icy close to the spring, but it’s great, clear and fun to swim in. The river gets its water from the glaciers and snow high up in the mountains. A lot of sports are done here, especially near the spring. Žaga is a great spot to start rafting, but going up the mountains is a lot of fun as well! (Plus, the icy fresh water is delicious, especially after a long climb up the mountains in summer weather).

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Anticrepuscular rays are spectacular optical phenomena that are quite rare and they require the viewer to have his or her back to the sun or sunset point. They are columns of sunlit air streaming through gaps in clouds. Yet while the former seem to converge from the sun, anticrepuscular rays converge toward the antisolar point, the point in the sky directly opposite the sun, creating some stunning effects. (Source) 

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Black holes spin. When the core of a star collapses, the star rotates faster and faster and becomes smaller and smaller. When it reaches the point where it does not have enough mass to become a black hole, it gets squeezed together to form a neutron star and continues to spin rapidly. Same applies to black holes. Even when the black hole shrinks down to Planck length it continues to spin rapidly.