20+ amazing pictures of our wonderful world (23 photos)

The world around us is amazing and beautiful, and if you don’t bury your head in the sand, but enjoy it in every manifestation, you can see simply amazing things!







Valonia ventricosa is the world's largest single-celled organism. Yes, this is one cell.





The Tokyo Bombing, also known as Operation Meeting House, is the most destructive bombing in human history, destroying 41 km2 of central Tokyo and killing at least 100,000 civilians. The atomic bombing of Nagasaki, by comparison, resulted in the deaths of approximately 80,000 people.



"Sin" by Heinrich Lossow (1880) is one of the most scandalous works of art in history. Meanwhile, this picture was based on a real event - the “Chestnut Ball”, organized by Cesare Borgia, to which he invited prostitutes to entertain the guests.



This is what an artillery silencer looks like.



South Korean professor Cho Jae-won has invented a toilet that turns excrement into energy and pays people for it with digital currency. A person excretes 500 grams of feces per day, which, when converted into 50 liters of methane gas, generates 0.5 kWh.



Sweden's "Disgusting Food Museum" showcases some of the world's most popular unhealthy foods.



During the drought, Dinosaur Valley State Park discovered dinosaur tracks that had previously been covered by water and sediment. They are more than 113 million years old.



The deadliest animal in history, the tiger nicknamed the Beast of Champawat, killed 436 people in 7 years in the territory between India and Nepal.



The oldest house in France. It is located in the city of Aveyron and is at least 700 years old.



On January 19, 1981, heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali was so upset when he learned that a Vietnam veteran was planning to commit suicide that he rushed to the scene and was there within minutes. Ali not only prevented the man from committing suicide, but also personally took him to the hospital.



NASA has released a new image of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Telescope. It shows two moons, two rings and distant galaxies.



Michelangelo's Moses is a marble sculpture created between 1513 and 1515. One of the many details of this masterpiece is one very small muscle on the forearms, which contracts only when the little finger is raised, otherwise it is invisible. Moses lifts his little finger, so this tiny muscle contracts.



Recently, a road collapsed in Rome, leaving a person trapped in the earth. After 9 hours of work, rescuers discovered that he was digging a tunnel, likely to reach a bank vault 300 meters away.



This power line turned out to be laid directly through the skull of an Anglo-Saxon woman buried in a previously unknown 6th-century cemetery.



The Guardian Angels were a group of volunteers that helped fight crime for the NYPD. Here they are on the New York subway, 1980.



This huge cougar-shaped shadow appears in Arizona's Superstition Mountains only twice a year, for one week in March and one in September.



This is what an angel looks like, according to its full description in the Bible.



Hospitals have "baby vests" to evacuate newborns in case of emergency.



140-year-old mother with a 5-day-old son.



It took astrophotographer Marcella Gilia Pace ten years to capture these 48 colors of the Moon.



A photograph of a nuclear explosion less than one millisecond after detonation. Nevada, 1952



Skull in chain mail from the Battle of Visby 1361.