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As the world keeps spinning, more and more exciting occurrences can be found. It never ceases to amaze me how many incredible discoveries and sights the world offers us on a daily basis. Here are 23 photos that lend support to the fact that Earth, with its inhabitants, can be a fascinating place!
1. Blue ice, the stunning result of snow falling on a glacier and becoming compressed.
2. That’s not a branch: a mammoth tusk is unearthed from the ground.
3. Not Legoland: a housing complex in San Buenaventura, Mexico.
4. This looks like a piece of art, but it’s a honeycomb.
5. An infrared photo of a garden. This is how a bee sees.
6. This giant cactus , Pachycereus weberi, is native to Mexico and southern Arizona.
7. This is what smoking does to your curtains.
8. The stunning blue-ringed octopus, one the most dangerous marine animals out there.
9. A homeless man sets up a temporary abode in Los Angeles.
10. The Iraqi Marshes: an aquatic landscape in a desert climate.
11. A 27,000 year-old hand print, discovered on the rocks of an Indonesian island.
12. It looks like a tattoo. Scars left after being struck by lightning.
13. Bangledeshians get creative: a floating bridge made out of dinghies.
14. What a difference a century makes: the daily commute, then and now.
15. Like ebony and ivory, lavender and wheat fields grow side by side in perfect harmony.
16. This is the barely-seen ili pika, a shy mountain animal from China, who was recently spotted for the first time in 20 years.
17. A rare sight: a sunset and eclipse at the same time.
18. An ice cave formed by volcanic hot springs.
19. Stuyvesant Town is Manhattan's largest apartment complex.
20. Not something you see everyday: lightning and a rainbow.
21. A cloud formation above the sea, in Holland State Park, Michigan.
22. A bird’s eye view of Dubai.
23. To get an idea of how large the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is it has been rendered next to a city.
