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98. Giant ash clouds erupt from Mount Sinabung volcano asvillagers watch on November 3 in Karo district in Indonesia. The volcano, which has been active since September 2013, erupted in February killing at least 15 people and forcing thousands to evacuate their homes.


99. Emergency responders escort VIPs out of building on Sparks Street on October 22 in Ottawa, Canada. A gunman shot dead a soldier as he was standing guard at the National War Memorial and then went on a shooting rampage through parliament buildings before he was shot dead.


100. A front view of Shockwave getting ready to launch down a track in Ontario, Canada. Powered by three jet engines and hitting speeds approaching 400mph, Shockwave is the world's fastest jet-powered truck. The three-tonne 1957 Chevy generates an incredible 36,000 horsepowerand can cover a quarter mile in just six-and-a-half seconds.


101. Jen Bricker poses on Santa Monica beach on September25 in Los Angeles, California. The gymnast's childhood dreams came true when she discovered her idol was in fact her long lost sister. Jen, 27, was adopted at birth after being born with no legs due to a genetic birth defect. Despite her disability, Jen was drawn to gymnastics and idolised American Olympic gymnast Dominique Moceanu. And after competing in and winning gymnastic competitions at State level, Jen learned a shocking secret that Dominique was actually her biological sister.

102. Participants build castells of human towers during the 25th Castells Competition on October 5 in Tarragona, Spain. A total of 30 human tower groups gathered to compete to build the most difficult human tower structure.


103. A photographer takes a selfie using a special panoramic camera from the top of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest man-made structure on October 8 in Dubai. Gerald Donovan, 47, was there to put the finishing touches to the Dubai 360 project, which includes a virtual tour of the city and a 360 degree panoramic timelapse. Cheltenham-born Donovan used a camera controlled by an iPhone app to capture the selfie at 830m.


104. Carl Bovard, 43, interacting with Sampson, a five-year-old Siberian tiger on July 12 in his backyard in Melrose, Florida. Carl set up Single Vision - his educational, non-profit company - nine years ago and welcomes tours to his house and garden where his wild animals live with him. His biggest tiger is Samson who weighs more than 700lbs and is over nine and a half feet tall when he stands on his back legs.


105. Glen Bonin approaches an 11 ft alligator to move it from the middle of the road on June 8 in Sulphur, Louisiana. Glen Taylor Bonin, 23, spotted the massive reptile blocking the road during an outing with pals. The carpenter and friends attempted to move the alligator by first using their t-shirts to blindfold it. But Glen narrowly avoided serious injury when the beast clamped its jaws round his hand and shook him like a rag doll.

106. Michelle Rovinsky, 32, poses while holding a BFG 50-A gun at home on June 30, 2014 in Tampa, Florida. The slim 32-year-old looks more like Barbie than Rambo - but she is trained to survive in the wild and shoot with military grade firearms. Michelle, who carries a concealed weapon at all times, wants to inspire a generation of girls 'brainwashed' by celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and Miley Cyrus.


107. Gagan Satish practices limbo-skating at a local sports complex on July 7 in Bengaluru, India. Gagan is a six-year-old boy who is a roller skater from Bangalore. He flattened himself and passed underneath 39 cars, squeezing in a space of seven inches above the ground on his roller skates. Gagan covered the distance in 29.8 seconds and emerged unscathed from the 20 centimetres of space underneath the SUVs. This feat haslanded Gagan to stake claim for an entry into the Guinness Book of World Records.


108. Hot Tub above the clouds in Burj Al Arab, Dubai (Inside the$24,000 a night Royal Suite at the Burj Al Arab In Dubai).

109. Nigerian bride in pink just waiting for her Nigerian prince.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2880771/From-incredible-bizarre-amazing-photographs-2014-world.html

110. Injecting Synthol Into Your Muscles Instantly Catapults You To The Top Of The Douche Hierarchy.


111. The chair Abraham Lincoln was shot in.


112. This is what a £125,000 sim racing setup looks like (Fifth Gear Tries an F1 simulator).


113. A coal miner takes a bath after his shift at a mine in Changzhi, China.

114. An Eclipse as seen from space.

115. British army Sniper with L115A3 Rifle deploying on a mission in Afghanistan.


116. Baghdad, Iraq, 1965.


117. This is what $40m in seized cash looks like.

118. Amazing Garden in the Back of a Japanese shop. Can you see those coloured fishes? Beautiful.


119. Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) with his Wife and Daughter.


120. Had no idea how big military drones actually were until I ran across this.


121. This is the private jet of the King from Saudi Arabia.

122. Warrent Buffett Is Worth $39 Billion But Still Keeps It Modest In This House In Omaha, Nebraska.


123. ncredible pictures of one of Earth’s last uncontacted tribes firing bows and arrows.


124. 15 year old Inca girl who has been frozen for 500 years“The younger girl’s body was slightly damaged because it had been struck by lightning. But CT scans showed that their internal organs appeared to be in perfect condition: onestill had blood in its heart, the brains were completely undamaged and when the blood vessels were thawed the blood that poured out of them was crimson, as it would be ina living person.” National Geographic:


Source: http://cavemancircus.com/2014/07/28/damn-fine-collection-fascinating-photos-28/

125. South Korean soldier holding hands to open the “Door” to North Korea incase the north tries to pull one of them in.


126. The $100 billion tobacco industry in Indonesia is virtually unregulated. With grade school aged children as a prime target, it is common for males to start smoking as early as age 6. Tobacco smoke is also used as a holistic treatment for diseases and cancers of the body.


127. Decades without cleaning teeth leads to calculus bridge.


128. Canadian Door Gunner sits back in his CH-146 Griffon helicopter.

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Thanks bro.

129. Remarkably preserved 3,000 year old Tocharian mummy.


130. In Heyope Wales, 1989, there was a tire fire where 10 million tires burnt for at least 15 years. Once a tire fire has started it is very very difficult to put it out. On April 2012 a five million tire fire erupted in Jahra, Kuwait.


131. 40 PSI, twin turbo, twin blower Big Block Chevy. Flex Fuel engine. 87-Octane 985hp, 91-Octane 1,225hp, 100-Octane 1,625hp, 114-Octane & Methanol 2400hp.


132. Unborn Baby Elephant.

133. Nigeria hyena man.

134. University of Ibadan main gate 1960.


135. UCH Ibadan 1960. Beautiful.





Source: http://sarabrajovic.com/2013/04/when-you-think-you-have-seen-it-all-this-comes-up-hyena-men-of-nigeria/


www.travelstart.com.ng/blog/40-old-photos-that-will-show-you-how-times-have-changed-in-nigeria/

136. Nigeria Airways Fokker 28 at
Calabar airport , 1970.


137. CBN Lagos, 1950.


138. Nigeria Leaders.


139. Transportation 1960s.

Can remember this lorry moves from ondo to lagos once in a week and we'll spend about two on the road. Miss those days.

Source: www.travelstart.com.ng/blog/40-old-photos-that-will-show-you-how-times-have-changed-in-nigeria/

Water Water Water everywhere, Venice of Africa, Makoko Lagos.


140. Estimations of how many people are crammed into Makoko vary wildly from 30,000 to 250,000.


141. Life revolves around the water with people living, working and shopping on small row boats.


142. A woman sat in a canoe sells food to school children in front of a makeshift school in Makoko.


143. A canoe filled with food floats past a makeshift photo studio a local saying claims you can find anything in Makoko, except a grave.


Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2608506/Slum-stilts-A-mother-baby-paddles-dirty-oily-water-Nigerias-Makoko-slum-250-000-residents-huddle-homes-lagoon.html

Some Nigerians then and now.

Source: http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/headline/119386-photos-of-top-nigerian-celebrities-then-and-now.html


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152. Skull of a 14 year-old girl believed to be a victim of cannibalism at the Jamestown colony in the winter of 1609. Butchery marks can be seen on forehead.


153. He is also a former heavy weight boxing champion. In 2008, at age 46, Evander Holyfield traveled to Europe to fight this guy for the title. Their size difference was huge but Evander put forth a heroic effort and really did enough to win a decision but was robbed by the European judges. Holyfield retired without accomplishing his dream of winning a heavyweight title in his 40s.


154. Traffic Control room, Beijin.


155. Super highway proposed by Russia would make it possible for drivers to go from London to New York

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160-163.

164. This supersonic jet prototype uses external cameras and displays instead of windows.


Source: http://oddstuffmagazine.com/30-interesting-and-unbelievable-random-facts.html

op, you always keep me in awe whenever i go thru your thread. you are like the "discovery channel' of nairaland. this kind of threads should be hitting front page like on man's business. nice work op, nice work

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op, you always keep me in awe whenever i go thru your thread. you are like the "discovery channel' of nairaland. this kind of threads should be hitting front page like on man's business. nice work op, nice work

Waoh! am so touched. This is the best ive ever seen, thanks bro.
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165. The crew rest compartment on Emirates’ Boeing 777s flying on long-haul routes.


166. This body has been laying here on Mt Everest since 1996.


167. Bugatti employee working with a Veyron engine.


168. The body of Shriya Shah-Klorfine on Mt. Everest, 300m below the summit. 19 hours of climbing she reached the topand spent 25 minutes celebrating, began her descent, ran out of oxygen and died of exhaustion…more pictures of dead bodies on EverestWhy are the bodies left on Mt. Everest and are not returned to the families?Summiting Everest requires a great deal of money, and it’s quite treacherous. Every corpse you see on Everest is someone who died on the way to the summit or on the way back. It’s hard enough to do it carrying all of the gear (oxygen bottles, tent gear, clothing, food, climbing gear, so on) that they have to carry. To attempt the same feat carrying a dead body along the way? Most people aren’t willing to risk joining the person they’d be trying to bring back.

169. Inside the Endeavour Spaceship.


170. Bullet of GAU 8/A Avenger, heavy machine gun mounted only on the A-10 attack jets.

Specifications:

Weight: 619.5 lb (281 kg).
Length19 ft.
Barrel length: 90.5 in (2.30 m).
Cartridge: 30 × 173 mm.
Caliber: 30 mm caliber.
Action: Electrically controlled, Hydraulic-Driven.Rate of fire: 4,200 rpm (variable).
Muzzle velocity: 3,500 ft/s (1,070 m/s).
Effective firing range: 4,000 feet (1,220 m).
Maximum firing range: Over 12,000 feet (3,660 m).


171. Royal Danish Navy Frogmen Corps (Danish equivalent of the British SBS or US SEAL Team 6).



172. Holiday makers in bikinis and trunks rally round, roused from their day in the sun to attend to thin and near dead-looking migrants from Africa who have turned upon shore after travelling across seas for up to 1000km. A woman calls out for help as her friend supports a man wrapped in a blanket, huddling with exhaustion, trauma and dehydration.

173. National Mosque, Abuja.

174. Nigerian marathon runner achieves North Pole dream.

175. A Nigeria man listens to the election commission announce electoral results for certain states, on a portable radio in Kano.


176. Attahiru Jega (left), chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission,with a list of results at the coalition centre in Abuja.

177. Election news coverage on television in Lagos street on Monday night.


178. A woman closes her shop in Port Harcourt as an overnight curfew is imposed in the southern Rivers state because of tensions running high.


179. Checking election figures on a smartphone at the Flexx Bush Bar after nine of the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory of Abuja had declared their results.


180. A campaign billboard of President GoodluckJonathan on a street in Port Harcourt.


Source: http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/mar/31/nigeria-waits-election-result-in-pictures
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181. Elder Godsday Orubebe at the collation center of theIndependent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and openly announced that the PDP would not allow the electoral commission to finish the announcement of the presidential election results, accusing INEC chairman Attahiru Jega of helping the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) to rig the election.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2015/04/02/delta-pdp-leader-calls-orubebe%E2%80%99s-arrest-party-members-defect

182. Vintage photo of former Head of state General Gowon with Queen Elizabeth during a state visit to England in 1973.


183. A Yoruba bride and groom circa 1910.


184. A photo by Chief S.O. Alonge showing Oba.Akenzua II of Benin greeting Queen Elizabeth II.


185. Lagos traffic ca 1980.


Source: https://www.pinterest.com/zodml/nigeria-in-pictures/

185. Sesame Street Rehearsal 1980’s.


186. Food tray aboard the Space Shuttle. Note the use of magnets, springs, and Velcro to hold the cutlery and food in place.


187. Dead Vlei: Namibia’s Graveyard of 900-Year-Old Tree Skeletons.


188. Ice Drift, Antartica.

189. A Swiss mountain Bar, Beautiful.

190. The Mclaren Factory is cleaner than any home I’ve ever seen.


191. America, According to Germany, in 1944.


192. Two business owners preparing to defend their property, L.A Riots, 1992.


Source: http://nedhardy.com/2013/11/22/damn-fine-collection-fascinating-photos-2/

193. One of the coolest mammals on the planet: The Pangolin.


194. Showgirls playing chess backstage at the Latin Quarter nightclub New York, 1958.


195. The tallest statue in the world, Ushiku Daibutsu.


196. A runner’s funeral

197. Cliff Hanging Monastery, China.

198. This is a 16 stories beneath midtown Manhattan.


199. North and South Korea at night.


200. Black woman saves racist from mob.

201. Team Rwanda(cyclists) sees snow for the first ever time.


202. The new Canadian passport under black light.

203. A monument in Novosibirsk, Russia dedicated to lab rats who were sacrificed for DNA research.


204. Amish children in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1937.

Sources: http://nedhardy.com/2015/02/06/damn-fine-collection-fascinating-photos-28/