Sometimes you see something and with your whole heart and soul you wonder "what the hell is that?" Thanks to the pool of geniuses over at r/whatisthisthing, mysteries like this are posed and solved every day. May the internet make it so that we'll never have to not know anything ever again. Okay, except maybe when you find mysterious items in your dad's toolbox. Maybe it'd be best to not know the truth behind those.
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People found themselves petrified with fear and overwhelmed by paleontoligists' recently shared findings about the 100-million-year-old hagfish slime's capabilities. This eerie, eel-like creature sounds like it swam and slithered right out of a feverish nightmare. If you're curious to learn more about why you'd never want to see one of these in the wild, check out the original article that sent everyone into a frenzy, here.
Your job may suck but that doesn't mean your desk has to. Making a small change like a adding plant or arranging multiple desks into a "super desk" and claiming it its own sovereign nation could be the trick to expressing yourself and fighting the power.
How did people discover that you could dig up months old ammonia-shark and eat it without dying? The answer to this, and most likely a lot of these, is as simple as "someone must've been pretty damn hungry."
Damn nature, you scary! Fisherman Roman Fedortsov shares photos of all the creatures he sees working on a fishing trawler in Murmansk.
Must be something in the water over there: this terrifying sea-monster was caught by fisherman over in Russia's Kuril Islands. To say that the 2,400lb beast is an unseemly, gut-turning, display of a nightmare brought to life is an understatement. Just picture this bad boy swimming towards you while you're out for a dip. Um, nope.
