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In 1995, Renault and Williams dropped a Formula 1 race engine into a Renault Espace minivan.
The results were quite incredible.

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The Pythagorean theorem was known to the Babylonians over a millennium before Pythagoras.
A clay tablet, known as Plimpton 322, dates to approximately 1800 BCE.
This tablet contains a list of Pythagorean triples, which are sets o...

The way this cabinet door opens and closes

Cuteness of burrowing owls [📹 Matt Poole]

An Indian town during festive season.
The Dashashwamedh Ghat in Varanasi, India, during the annual festival of Dev Deepawali.
This festival, known as the "Diwali of the Gods," transforms the 84 ghats along the Ganges River into a luminous and spiritual spectacle.

When you realize the intro of the famous song "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple is the intro of Beethoven's 5th Symphony simply played backward.
Mind-blowing.

The Teatro San Carlo in Naples is the world's oldest active opera house.
It was opened on November 4, 1737.

The Pythagorean theorem was known to the Babylonians over a millennium before Pythagoras.
A clay tablet, known as Plimpton 322, dates to approximately 1800 BCE.
This tablet contains a list of Pythagorean triples, which are sets of three integers that satisfy the equation a² + b² = c².
Another tab...

In Peru, large mesh nets coated with cactus fiber capture dense fog, turning it into clean water for communities in dry coastal and highland areas.
The process uses wind to push fog through the mesh, where droplets condense, merge, and drip into collection pipes, with a single net potentially yie...

The 4 km-long stretch of river in the city of Yanagawa, Japan is ideal for a relaxing time on a donko boat.
And sometimes the boatmen can show off their skills in a somewhat theatrical way.

A stunning close-up aerial footage of one of the ancient pyramids of Egypt,
paragliding [📹 Yanis Terzis]

François Monthoux is a Swiss sculptor who spent three years building a fortified terracotta city deep in the forest near Bière, Switzerland.
[📹 fmonthoux]

The P900 Floor Tile Paving Robot
is an automated robot
designed for indoor tile laying.

Boy vs $4000 RC tug of war [📹schmanke]

Flying an RC jet indoors with unbelievable precision

The “Drift” wooden sculpture
is a stunning creation
by Matthias Pliessnig

Colors of autumn 🍂

An obese person seen with X-rays
ᴵᵐᵃᵍᵉ ᵈᶦᵍᶦᵗᵃˡˡʸ ᶜʳᵉᵃᵗᵉᵈ ᶠᵒʳ ᵗʰᵉ ᵈᵒᶜᵘᵐᵉⁿᵗᵃʳʸ
"⁷⁰ ˢᵗᵒⁿᵉ ᴬⁿᵈ ᴬˡᵐᵒˢᵗ ᴰᵉᵃᵈ"

Beginner’s luck, literally.
Just 90 minutes into her very first archaeological dig, a student unearthed a 1,000-year-old gold treasure.
In a remarkable twist of fate, 20-year-old archaeology student Yara Souza discovered a rare 9th-century gold artifact while excavating near the historic Roman ro...

Beavers built a dam that local authorities had been planning for seven years, saving them $1.2 million.
A project to restore wetlands in the Brdy Landscape Park in Czech Republic had been in development since 2018.
But it turned out to be unnecessary—local beavers, which have lived in the park si...

When the dog usually goes for a walk with the husband and stops at the pub for a beer, then one day the missus takes him for a walk.
[📹 andycoxon1]

A man in 1835 was digging a duck pond and accidentally uncovered
a 70-foot tunnel made of 2,000 sq ft of mosaic made from 4.6 million shells (mussels, cockles, whelks, limpets, oysters, scallops).
It's the Shell Grotto in Margate, Kent, England.

Yerka Bike turns its frame into a built-in lock
[🔐 Yerka Bikes]

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In Sibiu, Romania, the rooftops watch like half-closed eyes.
The windows were originally built for ventilation but have earned the city the nickname "The City Where Houses Don't Sleep".

Superhero dad leaps onto her daughter
to save her from almost certain death in Egypt.

In Sibiu, Romania, the rooftops watch like half-closed eyes.
The windows were originally built for ventilation but have earned the city the nickname "The City Where Houses Don't Sleep".

A behind the scenes look
at the world's largest flower auction
in Aalsmeer, Holland.

A waterfall of clouds at Hampta Pass, Himachal Pradesh.

The perfect mix of style and storage for modern kitchens

How to fight someone with a prosthetic leg [📹 masterameriken]