You Won't Believe These Astounding Nature Photos Are Real

Lightning Strikes

It's quite rare to capture the exact moment that lightning strikes a tree, but this photographer managed to snap a photo using long exposure the second that it happened. Electric currents shot down the tree trunk and spread toward the ground, creating this beautiful (and somewhat terrifying) image. Remember, if you get struck by lightning, this could happen to you!

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The More You Know

  • The first commercial airplane flight lasted 23 minutes.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • There's a "floating rainforest" in the sea.
  • T-shirts were originally made for unmarried men who didn't know how to sew buttons on collared shirts.
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