Giraffes have a very familiar skin/fur pattern, but you probably never knew that there's more than one and that they are different on a regional and genetic basis

[source, read more: https://t.co/w01yyVzW3Y] pic.twitter.com/z2iZy1vt3d

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 4, 2024

The Hoba meteorite is the largest known meteorite: its mass is estimated at 66 tons.pic.twitter.com/GfXvEd4upK

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 4, 2024

We all need a hug sometimes.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/6gHjyC5C7m

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 4, 2024

This male sumatran orangutan is Raku: he got a wound on his right cheek. Scientists were surprised to spot him applying a medicinal plant on his face: akar kuning (Fibranaurea tinctoria), a type of climbing vine that acts as an analgesic.

After about 8 days he applied the chewed… pic.twitter.com/mftsO74t4W

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 5, 2024

Did you know?

Water leaks tend to emit sounds below a few kilohertz in frequency and can be effectively detected using narrowband acoustic sensors, called acoustic water leak detector.pic.twitter.com/FrccCjJANh

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 5, 2024

The dog’s lost his job.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/ONFlAkJGrx

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 4, 2024

Fun fact.

Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 1970s with nonsensical lyrics meant to sound like American English—to prove that Italians would just love any American song.

And it was a hit.pic.twitter.com/gU9T0Cw0OV

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 6, 2024

Another brilliant review of how most of a magician's trick repertoire is performed

[📹 roman_magic_nn]pic.twitter.com/6lMyPeFc8B

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 6, 2024

Actors' voices

[📹 Cameron Logsdon]pic.twitter.com/sN1FsxWNZA

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 6, 2024

Filmmaker and visual artist Sebastian Jern turns a mix of art forms into a unique blend of creative concepts.

Watch three of his most striking creations.

[📹 sebastianjern]pic.twitter.com/bSL10YaXj3

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 7, 2024

Logistics is crucial to harvesting crops: this is a small train in vegetable field used to efficiently move the produce.

[📹 mychinatrip]pic.twitter.com/aoWL41GABJ

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 7, 2024

Hold on.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/qSdUdDVIyp

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 7, 2024

Multiplication on a 120-year-old calculator

(427 * 289 = 123,403)pic.twitter.com/j2vGYoeWej

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 8, 2024

Platycerium Ridleyi is a fern.

Catching rainwater, bird/animal droppings, and even the occasional fallen deceased animal, these plants build up their own “compost” system of nutrition over many years.

[📹annasgarden_platycerium]pic.twitter.com/0Fxhc3V4iO

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 8, 2024

Such a day.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/3XkJGS7Z58

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 8, 2024

The classic "bar trick" where the forks seem impossibly suspended from the edge of the glass but are actually in a state of stable equilibrium with the center of mass of the matchstick/forks structure exactly below where the toothpick touches the glass.pic.twitter.com/7KKszbodg9

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 9, 2024

Sometime around 30,000 years before the current era, somewhere in the midst of the land that would become Germany, a human sat in a cave and sculpted a horse.

Later, we’d call it the Vogelherd horse: the earliest horse sculpture ever found. pic.twitter.com/A001WotvnG

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 9, 2024

How I found out that I would actually like to visit Kansas City. pic.twitter.com/efnYfjJrco

— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) May 9, 2024

Life finds a way.

“The Green Pearl”, a wild pistachio tree growing in the heart of a huge rock in Arsanjan, Fars Province, Iran.pic.twitter.com/adxAW2fiBq

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 10, 2024