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Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mancha_Negra

For those outside of the US, 8th grade would be about 13-14 years old.

The shiny puddles look like some low-temp metal melted and oozed out of the car as it burned. I wonder what part(s) melted, and what type of metal it is?

From CNN. Picture is roughly 2.5 miles / 4 km wide. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is barely cut out of the picture to the west.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4065667863

The world's oldest known wild bird has laid an egg at the approximate age of 74, US biologists say.

The rest is available to read on the justice.gov website here

Seen in the ocean off the Florida keys. According to the Coast Guard all passengers were safely picked up.

Unfortunately, I can't find much more reliable information on the area. It's apparently also known as Wan Tkufi and Karakeb.

This is a 1963 book by the American Institute of Architects awarding the best designs for school fallout shelters.

Cool design

The sharpest image ever taken of Venus.

It can be found at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois, USA.

This zoomable picture of the Andromeda galaxy has insane detail. It really impressed me with the crazy amount of stars visible once you fully zoom in. And that is just a small section of one galaxy! Made me realise how unfathomable the total amount of stars in the universe really is

This man has spend the past 30+ years perfecting a machine to create beautiful fractals through HD video feedback

XiaoHao2 took these pics and videos from across the China boarder with a dgi drone in 2020. They uploaded just recently. Here's some more pics

AlphaBay, once the dark web's kingpin marketplace, peddled illegal goods and fueled criminal activity. Its takedown was a victory, but the dark web's hydra keeps rising, posing new challenges for law

The camera captures so much data, that you can read street signs from the top of the building just by digitally zooming!

More info: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stairs-abandoned-button-factory/

Just to put it into perspective:

On the second day of the mission, Wang floated over to his experiment and sought to activate the Drop Dynamics Module. But it didn't work. He asked the NASA flight controllers on the ground if he could take some time to try to troubleshoot the problem and maybe fix the experiment. But on any Shuttle mission, time is precious. Every crew member has a detailed timeline, with a long list of tasks during waking hours. The flight controllers were reluctant.

TL;DR from Atlas Obscura:

[...] hopefully this thread would shed some light on what kind of pressure is put on extension developers.

Cymothoa exigua, or the tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic isopod that severs the blood vessels in a fish's tongue, causing the tongue to fall off. It then attaches itself to the remaining stub of tongue and the parasite itself effectively serves as the fish's new "tongue"

Enhance!

It would appear there's currently a battle on /r/place between pro-spez users, anti-spez users and admins as the guillotine is being perpetually drawn and erased

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bronze-age-sword-germany-180982399/

Source:

The Crooked Forest (Polish: Krzywy Las) is a grove of oddly-shaped pine trees located in the village of Nowe Czarnowo near the town of Gryfino, West Pomerania, in north-western Poland. It is a protected natural monument of Poland.

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Breaking up the flat agricultural areas of Argentina's Pampas is a guitar formed entirely out of trees. Stretching for 2/3 of a mile (1km), the multi-colored instrument was created by one Argentine farmer to memorialize his wife. Crushed by the loss of his love, a few years later Pedro Martin Ureta (owner) began working on designing a guitar in his field that could be seen from above by airplane. He settled on the design because his late wife loved the instrument and he wanted to memorialize her on his land.

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On the back says: 'Keep or Rehide' 'WPG Rocks'. Just found there is a fcebook group, artists hide them to be discovered. Not an English speaker so I am not sure if that 'keeps' means that I could bring it with me, so I rehide it to be found by another person :)

I heard this on The Infinite Monkey Cage yesterday and had to look it up and share.

As their name suggests, barreleye fish have really weird tubular eyes that they can rotate to gaze upward through their transparent foreheads. Although they appear green, the lenses are actually tinted with a yellow pigment that helps these bizarre fish distinguish between sunlight and bioluminescence.

The Statue of Unity is the world's tallest statue, with a height of 182 metres (597 feet), located near Kevadia in the state of Gujarat, India. It depicts Indian statesman and independence activist Vallabhbhai Patel (1875–1950), who was the first deputy prime minister and home minister of independent India...

Slovenia

The Rainbow Mountains of China within the Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park are a geological wonder of the world. These famous Chinese mountains are known for their otherworldly colors that mimic a rainbow painted over the tops of rolling mountains.

There are a lot of hoax or fake weather pictures on social media, but the viral pictures of a rose-colored cloud in Turkey are legitimate. On January 19th, 2023, a strange cloud appeared above the Bursa province.

Ghost apples are made from a pretty interesting phenomenon whereby frozen weather coats an apple in ice. When the apple inside rots and falls out, the icy shell is left behind and you get an ice apple.