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Humans are always doing weird and wacky things to their hair, but JMC Equestrian, based in North West England, have decided it’s time for horses to get in on the fun follicle frenzy. This is Romeo looking very pleased with…
These pictures of fairytale castles, town centres without cars, and optimistic people are from a forgotten era of German history, long before World War I and II. The German economy was booming and the nation was rapidly industrialising, with German…
“Walls of Kindness” are popping up in cities across Iran for people to leave clothing for the poor and homeless. دیوار مهربانی شماره 2 شیراز،خیابان خلیلی نبش کوچه 10 pic.twitter.com/f6InpNpeYX — Disconnected (@islanded_) December 15, 2015 According to the BBC,…
If you’re looking for a way to keep your diet on track and stay off the ice cream, then look no further. You won’t want to go near this smiley Japanese ice cream, because as soon as it melts, it transforms…
Over the weekend, Saudi Arabia had a historic moment when it finally allowed women to vote in municipal polls and also stand for election. The last country in the world to open its ballots to women, Saudi Arabia is known…
When a lost and starving pitbull was wandering the woods outside of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, it seemed unlikely that he’d have a happy ending. Until he was found by “super-vet” Wilson Coutinho Martins. Wilson stumbled upon the heavily bleeding and horrifically…
Back in 1909, French banker Albert Kahn was fed up with black and white photography. He sent four photographers to take their state of the art Autochrome Lumiere-system cameras around the world and document what they saw. #1. Just some…
Russian miner Ivan Kislov doesn’t spend his breaks in the staff room chomping on a soggy sandwich; he creeps out into the wilderness of Chukotka, Russia, to capture these gorgeous photographs of foxes. Ivan says that photography is his “relaxation from routine”. He enjoys…
After the 1979 revolution, as Iran became a conservative Islamic country, women were ordered to dress ‘modestly’, which by law required covering the hair and exposed skin. To this day, many women have attempted to push the boundaries of what…
Mohamad Al-Noury and Athar Farroukh were forced to flee bombing in their Syrian hometown just days after their wedding. And so shortly before traveling to Canada, the couple spent their honeymoon in a refugee camp. Upon arriving in Saskatoon, they were interviewed…
Singapore’s Gardens By The Bay is an enormous botanic garden and tourist destination that boasts a “Cloud Forest,” a man-made mountain with the world’s tallest indoor waterfall flowing from it’s peak. At a staggering 50 meters high, the world’s tallest indoor waterfall is pretty…
When the Telegraph dubbed 10-year-old Aron Anderson “Britain’s loneliest schoolboy”, online community Reddit pulled together to send Christmas cards to Aron from around the world. Aron lives on the tiny island of Out Skerries, part of the Shetland Islands in…
In Japan, turtles often get stuck in train tracks causing disruptions to services and delays to commuters, but more tragically, death to the turtles themselves. So West Japan Railway Co. teamed up with Suma Aqualife Park in Kobe to design and install five U-shaped…
What’s better than yoga? Well, according to Australian cat cafe Catmosphere, yoga with cats (of course). A one-hour session includes 45 minutes of yoga followed by 15 minutes of kitty cuddles. During the yoga sessions, no one is allowed to interact with…
Artist Rich McCoy who you’ll know from his previous paper cut-out photo art has been at it again! He’s been bouncing around Europe with a new set of silhouettes to change how you look at the world. Feeling festive in Covent Garden, London,…
Archeologists digging on the Menemonee Reservation in Wisconsin, US, unearthed this clay pot — which was carbon dated to around 1165AD — jam-packed with seeds. Archaeologists get pretty excited about pots. But pots with things in?! Jackpot. The pot had been buried containing ancient…