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STRANGE THINGS!

Our world is an enchanting place, yet its profound beauty and intricate details often escape our notice. Some marvels that surround us are rarely seen and appear pretty strange.       The above image is an ant's face. At first glance, this picture appears rather eerie as the antennae holes of the ant look more like eyes. The image was captured using Electron microscopy (EM), which is a technique for getting high-resolution images of much higher magnification than a normal light microscope. It is used in biomedical research. Here are more things that may take you by surprise. Enjoy! :)                      The top of Mount Everest.                      A mature hedge cut in half.       Hundreds of crows roosting in the snow at night.                 The back of a bowling alley.            A CT scanner without the cover on it.       A Tumbleweed before dying and roaming the land.                      A Firework shell.                 How Brussels Sprouts grow. Artichokes are flowers, and this is what they look like when they are not harvested for consumption. A Blue Whale's blowhole used to exhale also has another purpose and mechanism. Air sacs just below the blowhole allow whales to produce sounds for communication and, for toothed whales, echolocation. These air sacs are filled with air, which is then released again to produce sound in a similar fashion to releasing air from a balloon. The inside of golf balls. No other ball in sport compares to the complexity of the golf ball. One mysterious question for your average golfer relates to the inside of golf balls. What's inside a golf ball? The center of a golf ball is made of injection-molded rubber, so it will compress when you hit it. Up to four layers of high-density rubber surround the core. Two-layer balls are good for beginners, and more layers can increase your control. A photograph taken by NASA of a space shuttle leaving our atmosphere.            Tortoises have the strangest skeletons.

The blood vessels of a hand.       The underside of a Lilly pad looks like this.       An early human embryo on the tip of a needle. Sea Salps are one of the most remarkable creatures of Earth. This barrel-shaped fish has a gelatinous body and feeds on phytoplankton (marine algae). Sea Salps are not just unique because of their transparent bodies, these animals take in water at one end, filter out tiny plants and animals to eat with internal nets made of mucus, and squirt water out their back ends to propel themselves forward. They are rare creatures that exist both as individuals and part of a larger organism. A Baikal Zen formation on Lake Baikal in the Russian region of Siberia. This freshwater lake is witness to the most strange phenomena known as the Baikal Zen. It happens when stones brought by the wind to the ice of the lake are warmed and the day sun melts the ice under them. This causes the rock to remain balanced on a pedestal of thin ice. A Bashkir Curly Horse. The origin of this fascinating horse is a mystery. The Bashkir Curly is known to be a calm breed of horse with a mild temperament. Its other characteristics include a thick bone, strong, round hooves, intelligence, and exceptional memory. What makes it stand out from other breeds of horses, however, is its distinctive curly coat. These are dinosaur footprints in France. These giant footprints belong to a large sauropod dinosaur and were discovered in Plagne, France. These extraordinary traces of the now-extinct dinosaur were found by geologists and biologists from the Societe Des Naturalistes d'Oyonnax (SDNO). The footprints measure almost 155 meters in length and are more than 145 million years old. A giant 500 kilogram (1102.31 pounds) dinosaur thigh bone was uncovered by scientists in south-western France at an excavation site in 2019. The femur is two meters (6.6 ft) long and is believed to have belonged to a sauropod. This plant-eating dinosaur was found in the late Jurassic era and was one of the largest land animals that ever existed. The Keaton Music Typewriter. This instrument was first patented in 1936 by Robert H. Keaton from San Francisco, California. The typewriter was promoted in the 1950s and sold for around $225 ($2,873.55 today). The machine made it easier to produce music copies in large quantities for publishers, educators, and other musicians. The distinct circular look of the typewriter made it very popular. Blue Java bananas have a taste and creamy texture that is similar to vanilla ice cream. Apart from their unique taste, these bananas stand out because of the bright blue color of their peel. These delicious fruits are widely grown in Southeast Asia and relished as a dessert. While this may be hard to believe, the picture above is of a living cell. Known as Valonia ventricosa, or 'bubble algae', this species of algae is one of the largest single-celled organisms in the world. They are found in oceans, and their color mostly varies from grass green to dark green. This is a split-colored lobster that has a condition known as gynandromorphy. This means it is half male, half female. In this particular specimen's case, the blue side is the female one and the brown side is the male one. Amazingly, this rare genetic variation happens in only about 1 out of every 50 million lobsters. At first glance, the picture above appears to be a painting. However, this is actually a series of unusual eruptions from the outermost atmosphere of the Sun that was captured by a team of astronomers using NASA's three Sun-gazing spacecraft in 2013. According to the team, a series of fast puffs, that took place over a period of three days, forced the slow ejection of an enormous burst of plasma from the sun's atmosphere. Image Sources: Sumit316, Izismile, Subtle_Omega, fotokto.ru, Bored Panda, kt0me, Mass1m01973, Georges Gobet, Johns Hopkins University/APL.

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