Cool Finds From Around The World (22 pics)

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This is what the eye of a hurricane looks like from above:

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This is how big a human is compared to a wind turbine:

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And this is how big a tornado is compared to a wind turbine:

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For its 50th anniversary, over 300,000 people walked across the Golden Gate Bridge:

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Here's another angle of the very packed celebration:

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There are four miles of tunnels 72 feet underneath Tokyo designed to prevent the city from flooding. The whole system is absolutely huge:

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The Eiffel Tower receives a fresh coat of paint every seven years — here's a worker putting some fresh paint on the tower in 1924:

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And here's another man painting the tower in a very, very safe manner:

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One dollar bills did not have "In God We Trust" on them until 1957:

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In a similar vein, "under God" was not in the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954.

This is what the remains of a World War I trench looks like today:

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This is what a neanderthal looks like with contemporary clothing and hair:

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This is how big a DOUBLE king sized bed is:

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White bell peppers exist:

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This is the dish rag that Robert E. Lee used to surrender the Confederate army to the Union during the Civil War:

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This is what the inside of a cremation chamber looks like inside a crematorium:

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Deers shed their antlers every year. This is what an antler-less deer looks like:

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This is what a desert oasis looks like:

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This is what the inside of the ancient Egyptian Djedhoriwefankh's intricately painted coffin looks like:

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This is what Stephen Hawking's grave looks like:

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It reads "Here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking."

This right here is the smallest window in the world, located in Toledo, Spain:

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And, finally, it's possible to stack six pinecones on top of each other: