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The male Flemish Giant rabbit can weigh up to 22 pounds (10 kg) and the female can get up to 20 pounds (9 kg). At most, they grow to be 2.5 feet long (70 cm)
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[📹 Coelho Gigante Dois Irmãos: https://t.co/6EnhMQUqH8]pic.twitter.com/4tEymCSsIB— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 11, 2023
"The stone sprouted from the ground"
After a flood in China, the road surface and the asphalt sank with the eroding sand underneath and the rocks punched through
[source: https://t.co/ZetXXbNqXL]pic.twitter.com/PyskNuH2TB
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 11, 2023
Relentlesspic.twitter.com/ExNjrA9tzB
— Hy Bender (@hybender) August 11, 2023
A bridge girder machine drives the girder onto the previously placed one, slowly extends its arms to the next support platform, pushes the girder towards the front of the machine and then lowers it into place
[📹: https://t.co/PiyblWxguo]pic.twitter.com/VyngTiJHhk
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 12, 2023
Did you know? Snails have tongues, and particularly rough ones. If you place one in your hand, slime to skin, you may just feel the scratch of its tongue, called radula.
This is a Giant African snail feeding
[📹 snaildostuff: https://t.co/9NA62cWBz9]pic.twitter.com/iKTF9wnxiR
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 12, 2023
The story of Paul Alexander, the last survivor who has to live in this relic from dark times, after he contracted polio in 1952 at the age of sixpic.twitter.com/JNMsUc349v
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 12, 2023
This glass water slide is in central China's Henan Province. It's 1,800 meters long and 66 meters high and sits on Mount Laojun
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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 13, 2023
Tiny fish swimming up a wall and through a drainpipe
[📹 Sujith Surendran: https://t.co/DUcrLwDz2b]pic.twitter.com/A1uUCqnS48
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 13, 2023
The bouncing up and down and tail wagging help power the machinepic.twitter.com/b1IKog5hzj
— Hy Bender (@hybender) August 13, 2023
This is a railing at Castel Sant’Elmo in Naples and it has braille describing the view for blind people
Installed by artist Paolo Puddu, it allows visually impaired people to read the words of author Giuseppe de Lorenzo and picture the view
[read more: https://t.co/QCfK2amNBQ] pic.twitter.com/aDhSrPcytb
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 14, 2023
There and back again.
Catching the perfect timing of wave formation by showing the essential surf's physics
[📹 Joao Lucas: https://t.co/Zaplkgk6Aw]pic.twitter.com/JsHg5jsdaI
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 14, 2023
Never met a car ride he didn't likepic.twitter.com/YwDgPC71et
— Hy Bender (@hybender) August 13, 2023
There's a mountain in Peru whose 7 colors make of it one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world
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[📹 Ticodride]pic.twitter.com/DtaFdqRSQx— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 15, 2023
One of the most curious properties of dragonflies is probably that their wings kill bacteria on contact. They do it by ripping apart the bacteria's cell membranes with sharp nanopillars as they move across the surface of the wing
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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 15, 2023
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) August 14, 2023
The largest tortoise in the world is the Galapagos tortoise. These giants can weigh up to 400 kg. It is one of the longest-lived vertebrates. Captive Galapagos tortoises can live up to 177 yearspic.twitter.com/o9eFYmdrP7
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 16, 2023
This quite stunning dance style is sometimes called animation dance. It's meant to evoke the feeling of film animation with dramatic poses, freeze-frame-like motions and robotics.
These are Taylor Pierce, Jackson Myles and BluPrintpic.twitter.com/9FrD8acOD4
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 16, 2023
Snow leopard mom pretending to be scared when her cub sneaks up on her to encourage them to keep practicing their stalking skills.. pic.twitter.com/wls8NynEFB
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) August 16, 2023
The Tel-a-Chair, a 9-inch TV set connected to an apparently comfortable chair, was invented by John R. Rice: 10 minutes of TV time cost 10 cents and 1/2 hour 25 cents. This famous picture from 1969 shows the Los Angeles Greyhound Bus Terminal [read more: https://t.co/P6XPDCpsZr] pic.twitter.com/mAzNOz51HE
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 17, 2023
Mid hinge lighting columns allow luminaires to be maintained safely at ground level and can be operated quickly by one person without the need of lifting platforms and safety riskspic.twitter.com/ElEuA5y2q7
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 17, 2023