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Victoria amazonica, the largest water lily, Its floating pads can reach 3m in diameter. The flowers bloom at night, are fragrant, and measure up to 40cm across. The underside of the leaves are armed with sharp prickles, likely for defence against herbivores. 📹 fairchildgarden
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Velvet, a soft tissue with many blood vessels, covers growing deer antlers. After growth, the velvet dries, and bucks rub their antlers against trees to remove them. This signals the approaching rut, when hardened antlers are used for fights and displays. 📹 archipelagofarms
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The horned viper, moves uniquely by ‘sidewinding’. It throws loops of its body obliquely across the ground, creating J-shaped impressions in the sand. This method allows it to move efficiently over slippery surfaces like sand, minimising contact with the hot ground. 📹 bush_cow
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📍Na Pali Coast, Hawaii Would you like to explore this mesmerising beauty? Towering cliffs rise above green valleys and deep blue sea along Kauai's wildest coast.
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A tiny Asian Paradise Flycatcher poking a mighty Brown Fish Owl. 📹 trikansh_sharma
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This happens due to inertia. When a person jumps out of a moving vehicle, the person inherits the vehicle's forward velocity and will continue moving in that direction due to inertia, even after they are no longer in contact with the vehicle.
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Interesting shadowology art by Belgian artist and shadowologist Vincent Bal, who has an extraordinarily playful and unique eye for life, light, objects, and shadows. 📹 vincent_bal
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The Bagger 293, built by TAKRAF in 1995, is the largest bucket-wheel excavator and terrestrial vehicle ever built, used for lignite mining in Germany's Rhineland region, standing 96 meters tall and weighing 14,200 tons.
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This is the deepest known cave on Earth, Veryovkina Cave in Georgia, reaches an astonishing 7,257 feet (2,212 meters) down-more than twice the height of Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. 📹 bestchinesevideos
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An omni-directional ball-wheeled bike built by James Bruton. It balances sideways like a Segway and moves in any direction. 📹 xrobotsuk
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Marvel of Engineering!! Chand Baori, a deep four-sided well with a large temple, features a long corridor of steps leading to five or six stories below ground level. The well has 3,500 narrow steps over 13 stories.
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Did you know how wind turbines generate electricity despite spinning so slowly?
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Did you know why the key in the keyboard called a Shift Key is called that?
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Behind the scenes of shooting Avatar. Much of the film was shot with the Fusion Camera System, a digital 3D apparatus. The Fusion allowed the crew to shoot in 3D with a revolutionary quieter, smaller setup.
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