You Won't Believe These Astounding Nature Photos Are Real

Circumhorizontal Arc

This incredible optical phenomenon is an ice halo formed by the refraction of sunlight or moonlight in plate-shaped ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere, usually in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. The arc in its full form generally appears to be a rainbow spectrum running parallel to the horizon.

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The More You Know

  • In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
  • Mark Zuckerberg said a voting mechanism that says whether posts are good or bad is 'not something that we think is good for the world'.
  • The idea that a man should spend two months salary on an engagement ring was popularized by De Beers' ad agency.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
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