The SS United States spent decades resisting being sunk.

Engineers spent 18 months underestimating how badly this ship did not want to go down. She has tried becoming a hotel, and then every loophole was tried to avoid her becoming an artificial reef. — Read the rest

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The Spalax and Nannospalax are two types of blind mole-rats that Mother Nature clearly made when she was having an off-day. She must have been very overstimulated when she decided to stick a gaping mouth, large flaring nose, and absolutely no other facial features onto this hairy, sausage-shaped critter. — Read the rest

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Here is a close-up and personal video of a snail laying her eggs. I am not quite sure if I feel disgusted or struck by this video. The snail's eggs look like little pink pieces of candy, and it is not what I expected. — Read the rest

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Hundreds of spiders decided to hang out on a power line in Indonesia. They wove their webs around the power lines, creating a giant invisible wall where they all stand guard. This scene is an arachnophobe's nightmare.

Seeing this in the daytime would be one thing. — Read the rest

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