r/interestingasfuck

u/MASOOOOOOOD·3 days ago#1

"Telescope ranches" in Texas. People pay to store $10K+ telescope rigs in the middle of nowhere to escape light pollution. The warehouse roofs roll off each night, and owners remote in from anywhere in the world

u/papapuropoyrik·1 day ago#2

One year of walking across China: Before and After

u/titleguy2004·6 days ago#3

The rabbits used for the Teletubbies were Giant Flemish Rabbits, the largest rabbit species in the world and were used to make the Teletubbies look smaller in comparison

u/Impossible-Bee-5343·2 days ago#4

Photographed on a highway in India, two captive elephants reach their trunks toward one another in a brief moment of contact before being separated

u/nowayjose12345678901·1 day ago#5

Saturn visible through telescope 30 minutes before sunset

u/Key_Performer_3645·23 hours ago#6

Marie Wilcox realized she was the last person on Earth who could speak the Wukchumni language fluently, so at 82, she taught herself to use a computer and spent seven years typing a 6,000-word Wukchumni dictionary, the first written record of the language in history, to save it from extinction.

u/usefsaeed·3 days ago·thetyee.ca#7

u/usefsaeed·4 days ago·psypost.org#8

u/--TheGOAT·6 days ago#9

A state park in Arkansas lets anyone dig for diamonds and keep what they find. This year, a visitor found a 6-carat yellow diamond that an appraiser says could be worth around $250,000.

u/ComfyBedAndPillow·2 days ago#10

Lizard skeleton found with its head stuck inside a soda can in the desert.