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An undersea volcano off the coast of Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean erupted, giving people a stunning/terrifying views of nature in action.

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Something tells us the marketers of this lake’s recreational resorts are having an insane time trying to find customers.

Image below is one taken recently by Google Earth, showing a “manmade-looking grid” barely noticeable and lying on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean, and it has been making sane people chirp, “Atlantis!”
The site lies 620 miles off the west coast of Africa near the Canary Islands — a location for Atlantis seemingly suggested by [...]

Norilsk was founded in 1935 as a Siberian slave labor camp, and life there has pretty much gone downhill since. Home to the world’s largest heavy metal smelting complex, more than 4 million tons of cadmium, copper, lead, nickel, arsenic, selenium and zinc are released into the air every year. Air samples exceed the maximum [...]

Stunning photos of underwater caves by Anatoly Beloshchin, made even better with topless underwater chicks.
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This is Mumu, the undie-able cow. Actually, it’s name is not Mumu.We just have no joke here.
Anyway, as you may have observed, it looks like shit because some lightning bolt struck –and failed — to kill it. Now people just wanna do is bite into that walking steak.
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A giant rock formation resembling a city wall [video here] has been discovered under the Taiwan Strait.
The 220m stretch of basalt rock was found by biodiversity researcher Jeng Ming-hsiou.
He said it was likely to have been formed by a volcanic eruption up to 1,800 years ago.
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Founded by Mongols during Genghis Khan’s time, the town of Oymyakon (Sakha language for “non-freezing water” on account of a hot spring) is regarded as the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth. To give you an idea, temperature there usually hits -50C — which is probably the reason why its inhabitants look “unremittingly grim” as [...]

Sanyo made this solar-collecting building in Japan, which it calls the Solar Ark. It has over 5,000 active solar panels generating over 500,000 KWh of environment-friendly energy.

Sir Norman Foster’s Crystal Island — a volcano-like, 27 million square feet “city within a building” — is all set to be built in Moscow within the next 5 years.

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Remember those maid-themed restaurants and cafes in Japan that are so loved by otakus? There’s now one in Canada. But aside from the concept and the pleasant abundance of V-sign-flashing, maid-waitresses, the whole thing’s not actually Japanese.

Welcome to the quaint, adorable town of Fucking, Austria, where people and kids sound like they cuss all the time, but they actually don’t.

These probably-misleading-but-fun-to-spread photos of Romania are the kind of crap that make our day.

We’re not really sure about this piece of classified information, but it’s very probable that Hiroshi Hara designed the 40-story twin towers of the Umeda Sky Building in Osaka City in Japan to shoot two birds in one stone: let escalator passengers enjoy the city’s views while making them swallow their own testicles in fright.

Deep in the heart of the California desert lies one of the natural world’s most puzzling mysteries: the moving rocks of Death Valley. These are not ordinary moving rocks that tumble down mountainsides in avalanches, are carried along riverbeds by flowing water, or are tossed aside by animals. These rocks, some as heavy as 700 [...]

Bill’s so “huge” in Sarajevo, people actually think it’s cool to hang out at a club named after him. You don’t say.

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