The Strangest Natural and Man-Made Items that Actually Exist

Strange Perspective Photos

This is, in fact, not a picture of a giant balloon or a tiny person. These kinds of photos have been a popular style of photography since photography was conceived. Although you personally know that this is merely a trick of perspective, your brain struggles to maintain that perspective of reality. 

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The More You Know

  • Eight of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddhas.
  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
  • May 22nd is the least common birth date.
  • The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
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