A boy playing soldier, 1950s

The actual size of an atom.

Porcupines always keep their burrows clean and tidy. They make a bed of dry grass, and change it for fresh one from time to time.

Cats' unique ability

Perfect technique for entering the water.

Road repairers at work in rural England, c. 1870s-1880s

That moment you realize you have had too much internet or not enough...

Opossums are the oldest animals

They appeared in the Cretaceous Period, when dinosaurs were still roaming the Earth. Surprisingly, they haven't changed at all for this period. Opossums have become renowned for an ingenious defense mechanism. They pretend to be dead while emitting an unpleasant odor. Their eyes glaze over and foam comes out of their mouths.

The ruins of Cork city in Ireland after being set on fire by British auxiliaries who set the city on fire as revenge for IRA attacks on British forces in the region, 1920.

A picture of my medicine cabinet (real pills/liquid in ever bottle) Information on any bottle is greatly appreciated

Flamingos are unpretentious in their choice of habitat. They can live near boiling volcanic lakes, icy water, salty reservoirs and freshwater lakes.

Prisoners waving a home-made American flag greet U.S. Seventh Army troops upon their arrival and liberation of the Allach concentration camp (a sub-camp of Dachau), 30 April 1945

🍏 A short on how square apples are made.

Bears know how to disarm hunting traps by throwing sticks and rocks at them to trigger them idly.

Jewish families being taken from the Warsaw ghetto to extermination camps at Majdanek or Treblinka, May 1943

Fungal spores carried through the air by the night wind

An American mortar team fire shells over a ridge onto Japanese positions during the battle of Attu in the Aleutian islands, May 1943.