Sheer vertical heights Ibex are herbivores, their diet lacks salts Dam walls are made of stone and concrete . A type of salt called ettringite (or Candlot salt) can develop in the concrete, partially water soluble so made available on these walls. 1/🧵 https://t.co/qflxcpTVy7

Marine life photographers sometimes capture unusual sights, like this beluga whale captured by David Merron in Somerset Island, Canada, apparently casually leaning back and flexing, making sure everyone got an eyeful of his impressive six-pack [read more: https://t.co/iL1XjJeQg6]

These are jimbacrinus bostocki crinoid fossils found in Gascoyne Junction, Western Australia from the early Permian (280 million years ago) in the Cundlego Formation [source, IG, @_ycm_geology_: https://t.co/OjeebnIxBa] [more: https://t.co/903jr2NXu3]

High-speed trains wait to be maintained in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province [source: https://t.co/r9yxzEyYGe]

Bian Lian is an ancient Chinese dramatic art. Typically, performers change from one face to another almost instantaneously with the swipe of a fan, a movement of the head, or wave of the hand [read more: https://t.co/Z3eiE3KWqA]

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What happens to a popping balloon at 2700 frames per second [source, full video: https://t.co/x3QcCrzkyS]

In 1736, Leonhard Euler was trying to find a way to cross every single one of the seven bridges of Königsberg exactly once. He realized that this was, in fact, impossible and based on that, he created a new area of mathematics called Graph Theory [more: https://t.co/5PkOmOSjgN]

This is the first imagery we have of tiny cuboid crystals made of tens of molecules of NaCl emerging from the chaotic mixture of separate sodium and chloride ions. In other words, the first-ever atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time https://t.co/ZVvmDSWf07

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When he says he’s married with five kids but “it’s complicated”

Gatorade built this technology from scratch just for an ad. 2,500 switches turn the water on and off, and motion capture tells it what to do. The results are quite stunning [video: https://t.co/yMI9ZJ3FVu]

Not sure what the fuck kind of sorcery is going on in this video but here’s a similar situation with a full explanation: https://t.co/zvtYY2avVD

A mind-blowing size comparison for some cosmic perspective. Credit: Harry Evett. Full video: https://t.co/GPvCVzm3Iq

Wanna Learn Mathematics for free? Here are some of the Best freely available playlists from Linear Algebra to Number theory that you can use to excel at Mathematics. A Thread 👇

In 1997, Sony released a floppy disk digital camera: https://t.co/NucwKyls5d

The red line is drawn at the midpoint of the height of the trapezoid, but it appears to be lower than it is.

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