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Why does this pope have 3 hands? 🤔

Is levitation possible? 🪽

These stories are always terrifying! 😭

@Rainmaker1973 There’s something eerie about a figure that old still managing to feel imposing thousands of years later.

A massive 2700-year-old, 18-ton statue of an Assyrian deity that was excavated in Iraq in November 2023

@Rainmaker1973 Chernobyl somehow keeps finding new ways to sound like the opening scene of a horror film.

A black fungus feeds on radiation in Chernobyl. In the radioactive ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4, scientists found an extraordinary black fungus, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, thriving in one of Earth’s most toxic environments. Rather than merely enduring radiation, this fungus seems to harness it through radiosynthesis—a process akin to photosynthesis but driven by gamma radiation, converting it into chemical energy. It’s among the rare organisms capable of this feat. Even more remarkable, when tested on the International Space Station, the fungus flourished, forming a biofilm that blocked up to 84% of cosmic radiation, hinting at its potential as a living radiation shield for astronauts. With radiation posing a major hurdle for deep-space missions to Mars and beyond, this self-regenerating biological layer could revolutionize spacecraft design by replacing heavy, bulky shielding. On Earth, researchers are exploring its use in bioremediation to detoxify radioactive sites too hazardous for humans, potentially transforming nuclear disaster recovery. As one scientist put it, “It’s like nature crafted a biological radiation shield.” From Chernobyl’s ruins to space, this humble fungus could help humanity thrive in the universe’s harshest environments.

@creepydotorg That might be one of the most awkwardly unsettling ways to deal with an obsessed fan imaginable.

Robert Pattinson once dealt with an obsessed fan who had been camping outside his apartment by taking her out to dinner. “I just complained about everything in my life, and she never came back.”

@sciencegirl The kind that looks cute right up until it starts staring into a corner of the room for no reason.

What would you name this pup

@Dexerto There’s something very humbling about realizing the world can still keep a creature hidden from us for that long.

A new dinosaur has been discovered in South Korea 'Doolysaurus huhmini' is the first new species to be found in the country in 15 years

@sciencegirl Something about a sculpture “breathing” is immediately unsettling, even when you know exactly what it is.

South Korea's giant dachshund sculpture, nicknamed Sunshine, is a hyperrealistic, ‘breathing’ art installation

@thecurioustales A lot of people treat the “this feels wrong” stage like failure, when it’s usually the point where something is actually starting to rewire.

Most people don't quit because they lack discipline. They quit because the biology of real change was never explained to them. And in the absence of that map, the brain does what it always does with unexplained discomfort: it labels it as a sign to stop. Your brain doesn't reward you for changing. It punishes you. Every legitimate rewiring effort triggers a period where the old way feels faster, smarter, and more natural than the new one — because it genuinely is, at that moment. The old pathway is myelinated, efficient, running on deep hardware. The new one is a dirt track asking you to slow down, stumble, and embarrass yourself daily with no visible return on that embarrassment. And the deeper the change you're attempting, the longer the punishment phase lasts. Surface habits — when to drink coffee, which route you drive to work — shift relatively fast. But identity-level rewiring, the kind that actually changes how you see yourself and what feels possible? That runs through a biological process most people will interpret as failure at least three separate times before it completes. The feeling of "this isn't working" is not feedback. It's a phase. A predictable, well-documented, neurologically inevitable phase that every person who has ever changed permanently has moved through without knowing it had a name. What separates people who transform from people who cycle through the same attempts for years isn't willpower, environment design, or finding the right system. It's almost entirely whether they possessed an accurate model of what real change feels like from the inside — accurate enough to stay in the room when every sensation in their body is telling them to leave. We've built an entire self-improvement industrial complex on motivation as the primary engine. Morning routines, accountability partners, vision boards, identity statements. All of it operating at the conscious level. All of it aimed at a process that unfolds almost entirely below conscious experience — in slow-wave sleep, in cellular chemistry, in subconscious pattern competition that no amount of inspiration can directly touch or accelerate. You cannot feel your way to a rewired brain. The rewiring happens in the silence between your efforts, not during them. The days you show up and feel nothing, accomplish nothing, feel like you've slipped backward — those are the days the construction is heaviest. The absence of feedback is not absence of progress. It's what progress actually feels like at the biological level. The study points at something most productivity culture refuses to say out loud: the people who change permanently are not more driven than the ones who don't. They're more accurate. They had a map that told them the territory was supposed to look like this — uncomfortable, unrewarding, disorienting — and that kept them walking through it instead of turning around. Give someone a why and they'll start. Give someone an accurate picture of what the middle looks like and they'll finish. Almost nobody gives people the middle.

Where did she go? 🤔

Real footage from the Conjuring house. 😬

A werewolf hunter was detained after attempting to stake another man. 🐺

This house is definitely haunted! 🏚️

@HazyDyz 😂😂😂

@SlappedHam I suddenly feel the need to wash my bedding. I hated this 🤣🤣

At least the Rats look soft... 😭

@ancientalien25 Just like that!

@SlappedHam Hey look! Evidence! 😁

Sorry what's on the Moon? 🌕

@Naam_Gin Golf balls are expensive mate!

@SlappedHam He's still looking for that ball that he shanked into the rough in 1963... 😂

Seen any ghost's on the course lately? 👻

@badwulf1865 FORE!

@SlappedHam Excellent apparition shot.

@PatrickFolklore Just a little?

@SlappedHam I think it's a littel bit creepy.

That escalated quickly! 🤖

@IsabelleV2008 So weird to watch. Nothing makes sense haha

@SlappedHam I hope this is a clip for a movie or AI or something because that's too weird.

@frideswyth Me too. Do you think it is though?

@SlappedHam Sounds like it said “don’t kill me??” wtf I hope this is a person in a suit