每日趣图：Strange Earth

To paraphrase a popular saying, nothing in this world is certain except that socks disappear in the laundry and taxes. It's why we bring an umbrella even when the highest-paid weatherman predicts blue skies.
To illustrate this point, the members of the subreddit 'Strange Earth' share unsettling conspiracy theories, bizarre coincidences, unexpected animal behaviors, and everything else that challenges our understanding of reality.
After all, you can't write surreal without real. Life imitates art imitates life imitates art imitates...

#1 In 1996, Binti Jua, A Then 8-Year-Old Female Gorilla, Rescued A 3-Year-Old Boy Who Fell 25 Feet Into Her Enclosure And Broke His Hand     
  

#2 In 2017, A 10-Year-Old Florida Girl Juliana Ossa Fought Off A Deadly Alligator Attack By Sticking Her Two Fingers Up The Alligator's Nose   
  

#3 Nikola Tesla's Last Message To His Mother: "All These Years That I Had Spent In The Service Of Mankind Brought Me Nothing But Insults And Humiliation."   
  

#4 In 1999, Harvard Physicist Lene Hau Was Able To Slow Down Light To 17 Meters Per Second. In 2001, She Was Able To Stop Light Completely   
  

#5 A Local Fisherman Chito In Costa Rica Nursed A Crocodile Back To Health After It Had Been Shot In Head, And Released The Reptile Back To Its Home   
  

#6 Aleksander Doba Kayaked Solo Across The Atlantic Ocean (5400 Km, Under His Own Power) Three Times, Most Recently In 2017 At Age Of 70   
  

#7 Judith Love Cohen Was American Aerospace Engineer Who Helped Create Abort-Guidance System That Rescued Apollo 13 Astronauts   
  

#8 In 2019, Fred Pepperman, A 53-Year-Old Father Swam Out To Rescue His Daughters When Grace (16), Olivia (20), & Kathryn (24) Caught In A Riptide On A Florida Beach   
  

#9 minutes Before The 2004 Tsunami Hit Thailand, Tilly Smith, 10 Y.o. Girl Warned Her Parents It Was Coming   
  

#10 On July 9, 2020, 6-Year-Old Bridger Walker Saved His Little Sister From A Dog Attack. He Had 90 Stitches All Over His Body, But Saved His 3-Year-Old Sister From Certain Death   
  

#11 In 2013, Harrison Okene Spent 60 Hours Underwater, In Total Darkness, After His Vessel Capsized 20 Miles Off The Coast Of Nigeria And Sunk To The Bottom Of The Sea   
  

#12 A Japanese Man Named Yasuo Takamatsu Lost His Wife In The 2011 Earthquake And Has Not Stopped Looking For Her Body For More Than 10 Years   
  

#13 New Analysis Of Ancient Footprints From White Sands Confirms The Presence Of Humans In North America During The Last Glacial Maximum 21,500 Years Ago   
  

#14 In 2015, A Father Saved His Son's Life When Doctors Wrongly Declared Him Brain-Dead And Were Taking Him Off Life Support   
  

#15 She Is The Youngest New Zealand Mp And Performs The Traditional Māori Haka Dance In Parliament. Her Ancestry Dates Back 5,000 Years   
  

#16 This Is Point Nemo, The Spot Farthest Away From Any Land In The World. You Are Closer To Astronauts Aboard The Iss Than Humanity   
  

#17 62-Year-Old Boeing Whistleblower John Barnett Found Dead In His Truck After He Didn't Show Up For A Legal Interview Linked To A Case Against Boeing   
  

#18 In 1999, Skydiver Joan Murray’s Parachutes Malfunctioned, Leaving Her To Free-Fall 14,500 Feet Above North Carolina, Landing Directly On A Fire Ants' Mound   
  

#19 Today I Learned Scientists Discovered A Dinosaur Tail Perfectly Preserved In Amber. It Is Full Of Feathers   
  

#20 The Very Last Photo Of Chester Bennington (The Lead Singer Of Linkin Park) Taken By His Wife Just One Day Before He Tragically Took His Own Life   
  

#21 Sheldon Johnson, Ex-Con Who Appeared On Joe Rogan Advocating For Rehabilitative Justice, Has Been Arrested After Police Found A Torso In His Apartment   
  

#22 From A Million Miles Away, Nasa Captures Moon Crossing Face Of Earth. (Yes, This Is Real) Credit: Nasa/Noaa   
  

#23 FBI Agent Robert Hanssen Was Tasked To Find A Mole Within The FBI After The FBI's Moles In The Kgb Were Caught   
  

#24 Ancient Babylonian Tablet Reveals Pythagorean Theorem -   
  

#25 In 1998, A Married Couple Was Left Behind During A Diving Trip To The Great Barrier Reef. Two Days Passed Before Anyone Realized What Had Happened   
  

#26 In 1998, Michael Hill Was Stabbed In The Brain With An 8-Inch Serrated Blade When Answering Door At Friend’s House.   
  

#27 On May 31, 2014, 12-Y.o. Payton Leutner Was Lured Into Waukesha Woods, Wi By Her Friends, Morgan & Anissa. Morgan Stabbed Leut 19 Times With A Kitchen Knife As Anissa Looked On   
  

#28 We Are Not Even A Speck In The Universe   
  

#29 A 9,000-Year-Old Skeleton Was Found In 2018 Inside A Cave In Cheddar, England, And Was Nicknamed “Cheddar Man”   
  

#30 A Bible Believed To Be 1,500 Years Old Challenges The Crucifixion Of Jesus Christ, Proposing That It Was Judas Who Was Crucified By Roman Soldiers   
  

#31 Man With Radium Poisoning, Chelyabinsk Region, Russia   
  

#32 In 2018, 26-Year-Old Missionary John Chau Tried To Convert His Killers After Attempting Contact With The World’s Most Isolated People In The Indian Ocean   
  

#33 Dr. Irving Finkel With A 3,770-Year-Old Tablet Containing Instructions From The God Enki To Sumerian King Atram-Hasis   
  

#34 An Actual 65 Feet Wide And 300 Feet Deep Sinkhole In Guatemala City In 2010   
  

#35 The Lost Girl, 1874 Blanche Monnier Was A Parisian Socialite, Known For Her Beauty   
  

#36 Genie Wiley, Girl Who Was Raised In A Dark Isolated Room With No Indication Of An Outside World For The First 13 Years, Her Father Was Incredibly Abusive, & She Was Rescued Her In 1970   
  

#37 Turkey Is Home To Over 200 Ancient Underground Cities   
  

#38 Martin Pistorius Slipped Into A Coma Aged 12 But He Could Not Move, Communicate, Or Do Anything For Himself For 10 More Years   
  

#39 In 2013, A Florida Man, Jeff Bush, Was Sleeping In His Bedroom When A Large Sinkhole Opened Up Directly Underneath His Bed, Swallowing Him And His Entire Bedroom   
  

#40 In 2010, Australian Boy Sam Ballard Was Drinking With His Friends When They Saw A Slug Crawl Across The Floor   
  

#41 Ivan Lester Mcguire, An Experienced Skydiver, Was Documenting A Tandem Jump On Apr 2, 1988   
  

#42 The Platypus Is Possibly The Weirdest Animal: It's A Mammal But Lays Eggs, It's Duck-Billed, Beaver-Tailed, Otter-Footed And Venomous   
  

#43 1991: A Man Vanishes After Telling His Family He's Going On A Business Trip. 2021: A Car Stops In Front Of This Man's Home And Drops Him Off   
  

#44 In 2006, This Argentinian Police Officer Was Found After An 18-Hour Search In A State Of Complete Shock   
  

#45 Just A Reminder That There’s A Perfect Hexagon Cloud Formation Over Saturn’s North Pole   
  

#46 In 1992, Annette Herfkens Survived Crash That Killed Everyone Else On Board, Including Love Of Her Life. Merely 50 Mins Into Their Flight, Plane Crashed Into Mountainous Vietnamese Jungle   
  

#47 In The Year 1912, 4 Year Old Boy Named Bobby Dunbar Went Missing While On Family Trip. 8 Months Later, Bobby Was Found & Reunited Him With His Family   
  

#48 Tammy Lynn Leppert, That Blonde Girl, Who Distracts Manny In The Movie Scarface, Vanished Shortly After Filming And Has Never Been Seen Or Heard From Since   
  

#49 These Are Insane Hd Photos Of An Alleged Jellyfish UFO   
  

#50 Final Self Photo Of Kayaker Andrew Mccauley Recovered From His Memory Stick After His Disappearance   
  

#51 One Of The Last People To Live In An Iron Lung. At 6 Years Old, Paul Alexander Was Diagnosed With Polio Which LED To Paralysis From His Neck Down   
  

#52 15yo Mary Vincent, Who In 1970's Hitched A Ride With A Stranger. She Was Then Brutally Assaulted In The Van, Had Both Of Her Arms Chopped Off, And Was Then Thrown Down A 30 Ft Cliff   
  

#53 The World’s Oldest Pyramid Is In Indonesia, Is At Least 10,000 Years Old, Has Unexplored Chambers, And Demonstrates How A Pyramid Can Be Mistaken As Part Of Nature   
  

#54 When Alexander The Great's Body Did Not Decompose Six Days After His Death, Ancient Greeks Were In Awe. This Made Loyal Followers Believe He Was A God   
  

#55 16 Years After The Death Of Nicole Van Den Hurk, Her Stepbrother Andy Falsely Confessed To Ki****g Her To Get Her Body Exhumed For DNA Testing Which Lead To The Arrest And Prosecution Of Her Attacker   
  

#56 Nasa Astronaut Franklin Story Musgrave Claimed To Have Seen Snake-Shaped Ufos During Two Missions In Space   
  

#57 A Group Of Six Teenagers Were Discovered Living On A South Pacific Island, Named Ata   
  

#58 Want To Hear Something Insane? A Japanese Man Noticed His Food Going Missing So He Set Up A Webcam And Found That A Woman Had Been Secretly Living In His Closet For A Year   
  

#59 First Human To Receive The Neuralink Brain Implant Used It To Stay Up All Night And Play Civilization6. “It Was Awesome”   
  

#60 In 1948, A Man Wore 30-Pound, Three-Toed Lead Shoes & Stomped Around A Florida Beach During The Night   
  

#61 Last Image Of Chris Mccandless Of "Into The Wild", Estimated To Have Been Taken A Few Days Before His Death   
  

#62 In 1978, Scientist Anatoli Bugorsky Accidentally Put His Head In A Particle Accelerator And Got Hit By A Proton Beam In His Head   
  

#63 Scientists Found A Stonehenge Type Structure Under Lake Michigan, Only It's 4000 Years Older Than The One In England   
  

#64 In May 2019, Amanda Eller Was Lost For 17 Days In The Forests Of Maui After A Three-Mile Hike Turned Into A Harrowing Ordeal   
  

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#66 One Of The Last Photos Of Bobby Driscoll [left Side] Before His Life Ended Sadly   
  

#67 In 1928, The Third Richest Man In The World Disappeared From His Private Airplane Midflight   
  

#68 This Is One Of The Largest And Most Complex Crop Circles Ever Found Which Consisted Of 409 Circles In A Spiral Pattern More Than 450 Meters Across   
  

#69 Stanley Kubrick's Movie “Eyes Wide Shut” Was About Elites Engaging In Occult Ritual Activities. It Was Filmed In An Actual Rothschild Mansion