Interesting Finds From Around The World (23 pics)

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This is what a fish getting a CT scan looks like:

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Hedges can be absolutely massive:

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This is what the painting directly across from the "Mona Lisa" looks like:

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Australia lets its citizens know exactly how their tax dollars are spent:

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Over 2,000 years ago, a child living in ancient Rome made this footprint in a clay tile while it was drying:

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This is what Bruce Lee's workout routine was in 1965:

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This is what the start of a river looks like:

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This is what an x-ray of a six-fingered hand looks like:

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This is what North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal, home to one of the world's last uncontacted peoples, looks like from above:

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This is what a tumbleweed looks like before, well, it tumbles:

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This is what the "hand" of a manatee looks like:

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There are a whole bunch of trees on Earth that were planted with seeds that flew to the moon on Apollo 14:

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It cost just about $100 to give birth in 1956:

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This is a hammer-headed bat, an absolutely enormous fruit bat with an average wingspan of over three feet:

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Speaking of gigantic animals, check out the size of this here lobster claw:

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This is the executioner robe and axe of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, the official executioner of the Papal States in the 1800s:

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This is a display of ancient Egyptian furniture, from sometime around 1,500 BCE:

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This is the Brewster armor suit, one of the first fully functional suits of body armor designed for World War I combat:

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This exhibit shows what happens to marble over time if people are allowed to stick their grubby little paws all over it:

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This is the check for $7.2 million, issued Aug. 1, 1868, that the US sent to Russia for the purchase of Alaska:

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And, finally, bolts? Bolts can be absolutely gigantic: