Interesting Finds And Discoveries (24 pics)

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The interior of Charles Lindbergh's airplane that he flew solo across the Atlantic, from New York to Paris, in 1927 at age 25.

2

Sapphire tower plant blooms for first and last time in 20 years.

3

A sign over a urinal in Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and binary.

4

My finger prosthetic has my new fingerprint on it.

5

My wife’s deodorant smells like Girl Scout cookies.

6

Before and after the recent storm in Dubai. I now have a lake view apartment.

7

I bought a Black Panther cordless power screwdriver set.

8

After The Simpsons episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" that aired in May of 1995, The Mirage casino displayed odds on who was the shooter.

9

Hotel mirror has a built in heater to prevent fogging.

10

In 1994, Bill Gates bought Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester for US$30,802,500 (equivalent to $63,320,092 in 2023) at Christie’s auction house. It was the most expensive manuscript ever sold.

11

My glasses' filter reflecting blue light and only letting yellowish light through.

12

This mechanical game of Tetris I saw, in the kiddies' space of a gas station.

13

After $2 billion spent on its design and construction, “Desertron” or the Superconducting Super Collider was cancelled in 1993 due to rising cost estimates of up to $12 billion USD.

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This is a tree that got hit by lightning and it exposed its vascular system.

15

Never knew the value of PPI (pixels per inch) till I saw this comparison of a tablet and a laptop.

16

The edge of England.

17

This is a music typewriter, how music was typed before computers.

18

A grocery store inside a 3rd century Roman imperial palace in Croatia.

19

Cross section of a fiber optic cable being laid in my neighborhood.

20

This bar decorated its bar top with the confiscated fake IDs of college students.

21

These wacky looking stairs on my campus.

22

A hail cannon, which uses shockwaves to disrupt the formation of hailstones and protect crops.