I guarantee almost all of you have seen this picture.


This picture is called Bliss, and it was the default desktop wallpaper for Windows XP.

It looks like it was made in photoshop because it’s so perfect. But it wasn’t.

It’s 100% real, no editing whatsoever.

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This is the man behind the picture, Charles O’Rear. [img]
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O’Rear was on his way to visit his girlfriend, and he saw a sunny hill that looked particularly picturesque. He stopped his car, and took a few photos.

Eventually he sold the photo to an advertising company as a stock photo.

Many years later, Microsoft found it. They agreed to license it from O’Rear, and made it the default background for Windows XP.

It’s believed that Bliss is the most viewed image ever. It’s been seen on roughly one billion computers.

That’s how a guy pulled over on the side of the road, and took the most viewed picture in history.
Source: Dylan Owen wrote on quora

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-useless-fact-you-know/answer/Dylan-Owens-19