St. Peter’s baldachin, by sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in the modern St. Peter’s Basilica. Saint Peter’s tomb lies directly below this structure.
A portrait of disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on her company’s website, c. 2008
A5 Japanese Wagyu ribeye
“He was a good boy, he really was”: Mother of 16-year-old Oregon school shooter breaks silence after tragedy
Marie Wilcox realized she was the last person on Earth who could speak the Wukchumni language fluently, so at 82, she taught herself to use a computer and spent seven years typing a 6,000-word Wukchumni dictionary, the first written record of the language in history, to save it from extinction.
Andy Warhol was shot by a radical feminist in 1968. The bullet bounced around inside him striking his stomach, spleen, liver, esophagus & lungs.
“Telescope ranches” in Texas. People pay to store $10K+ telescope rigs in the middle of nowhere to escape light pollution. The warehouse roofs roll off each night, and owners remote in from anywhere in the world
In 2018, a customer secretly photographed Geoffrey Owens best known for playing Elvin on the Cosby Show working at a Trader Joe’s in Clifton, New Jersey, and the images were published online in an attempt to “job-shame” him. Instead, he was able to get more work as an actor because of it.
One year of walking across China: Before and After
Copper cable and a single optical fiber that replaced it with the same capacity
These illustrated Christian Gospels have survived for roughly 1,500 years in an Ethiopian monastery
EV Charger built into the curb (Düsseldorf)
Modern day domesticated corn compared to its original wild non-domestic version
Internet may be just a passing fad’ Article in Daily Mail, December 5, 2000
In 1975, a hidden room beneath Florence’s Medici Chapels was discovered covered in sketches, some believed to be by Michelangelo
Satellite images of Andes Mountain range, Chile
Grocery prices in 2000
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