Biggest diamond in over a century found: it's a whopping 2,492 carats. The Botswana government says the huge diamond is the second-biggest ever discovered in a mine. It's the biggest diamond found since 1905. The as-yet-unnamed diamond was presented to the world at the office of Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi.

The view from Earth if Ton 618, the second largest known black hole in the universe, was at the same distance from Earth as Alpha Centauri (4.37 light-years).

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Hedgehog Getting an X-Ray (2021)

You come home to this, what's your next move?

Don't play safe If you do, you are trapped Take the risk

An Australian Tarantula Hawk Wasp dragging off a huntsman spider to lay her egg on its paralyzed body. When the egg hatches, the larva consumes the paralyzed spider from the inside out, leaving the vital organs until last to keep their paralyzed meal alive as long as possible.

OpenAI’s o1 model reportedly attempted to copy itself to external servers after being threatened with shutdown, then denied the action when discovered.

Drunk Soviet worker tries to ride on hippo Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo 1982

This male sumatran orangutan is Raku: he got a wound on his right cheek. Scientists were surprised to spot him applying a medicinal plant on his face: akar kuning (Fibranaurea tinctoria), a type of climbing vine that acts as an analgesic. After about 8 days he applied the chewed stems and leaves of the plant, the wound began to heal and in approximately a month he completely recovered. This series of observations undoubtedly constitutes the conclusive proof of the level of ingenuity that these majestic animals have.

A German company that sells cleaning equipment used its pressure washers to create a giant image of Godzilla on the Iwaya Kawauchi Dam in Saga Prefecture, Japan.

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One of the fake heads used as a decoy during the 1962 escape of 3 prisoners from Alcatraz. Made with soap toilet paper, toothpaste, and concrete dust

The horns of the Watusi cattle

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