Ottoman flag being surrendered to King Nicholas I of Montenegro during the First Balkan war, c. 1913

🔥 A Chinese man has figured out how to choose his t-shirts from online shops without trying them on.

Few people know that the Komodo dragon is a born scavenger, carefully clearing the coast of the bodies of dead sea creatures, including turtles. The shell of one of them just got stuck on its neck.

Omurtag, the Great Khan of Bulgaria from 814-831 AD, ordering the murder of Christians. (illustration from the 12th century Madrid Skylitzes)

Prince Moulay Hassan of Morocco avoids hand kisses in every way possible

The size comparison between a female and male Kodiak bear

Women and children in a slum in England, c. 1880s

This is how disposable e-cigarettes are tested in a factory in China

Some workers take up to 10,000 puffs per shift.

This is what little hippos look like.

US soldiers in Tampa at the time of the Spanish-American War, 1898

Panasonic has come up with a hologram-enabled air conditioner. It can not only cool the air but also project pictures on the sprayed mist.

👍 - Top! / 🤔 - Stuff without tasks

Irish engineer John Philip Holland (1841-1914) stands in the hatch of a submarine. Holland developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine.

No wonder he's built like that

Housing ad from 1955

US infantry with tank support advance against Japanese positions on the Solomon Islands, March 1944

Looks like this guy has solved the parking problem 😎

Chocolate Falls

Yet, it's not chocolate, but just dirty water😔The Grand Falls is located in the United States on the Navajo Indian Reservation.

The streets of Constantinople (Istanbul), 1890s

Japan's airports, railway stations and subways have introduced a futuristic way to translate speech in real time.

The VoiceBiz UCDisplay glass interpreter recognises speech in 12 languages and displays the translation for two people at the same time. This helps foreigners navigate more easily without having to deal with the language barrier

The rare albino seal

Albino seals look more red than white. They are pure albino with no pigmentation even in their eyes.