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The most incredible things on Earth, every day 🌍✨ Travel • Adventure • Culture * Nature

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During the early hours of Wednesday, January 31, 2018, for the first time in more than 150 years, there will be a full moon, a total lunar eclipse, a blue moon and a supermoon – all at the same time. #SuperBlueBloodMoon
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Even the boats clock out in THAILAND 🚤🌅 Work's done. Parked, unplugged, watching the sky do its thing. Goodnight from Koh Samui 💤🇹🇭 #KohSamui #Thailand #Sunset #Travel
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Every corner of the globe has its own rhythm. 🌍🎶 Experiencing the timeless art and tradition of street performers in India. Quick Travel Trivia: Does anyone know the traditional name of this gourd flute instrument being played? 👇 📍 India #Travel #IncredibleIndia #Culture #Wanderlust
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The instrument is a Pungi (pronounced POON-gee) — also called a Been in Hindi. It’s made from a dried gourd with bamboo pipes.
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Sacred traditions preserved through music and heritage. A mesmerizing moment listening to a Kayan woman play music in her village. 🎶✨ Quick Travel Trivia: Do you know which region of Southeast Asia is famous for the long-neck brass coils worn as part of their cultural tradition? 👇 #Travel #Culture #Wanderlust #ExploreTheWorld #SoutheastAsia #Thailand
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Passionflower 💜 This flower has a whole story in its face 💜 Spanish missionaries in the 1600s named it for the Passion of Christ — they said the fringed crown was the crown of thorns, the 3 stigmas the nails, the 5 anthers the wounds. Each bloom lives just one day. She doesn't waste it ✨ #Flowers #Nature #Passionflower
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And she's not just beautiful — she's a nursery 🦋 Passion vines are the ONLY food Gulf fritillary caterpillars will eat. Plant the flower, get the butterflies.
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SAGUARO: The ONE NIGHT FLOWER 🌵🌙 Each spring, the giant saguaro's white blooms open after sunset — and wilt by the next afternoon. Less than 24 hours for a bat, a moth or a bee to find them. The desert doesn't do encores. #Saguaro #Cactus #Nature 📸: SaguaroNPS via Wikimedia Commons
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Night shift first: lesser long-nosed bats and moths do the pollinating in the dark 🦇 Then bees and white-winged doves take the morning shift before the blooms close for good.
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This butterfly is not blue 🦋💙 There's zero blue pigment in a blue morpho's wings. Microscopic scales bend the light until only blue bounces back — grind the wing to powder and it's just… brown. Nature's greatest magic trick? 👇 #Butterfly #Nature #Science 📸: Alias 0591 via Wikimedia Commons
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Flip it over and the show disappears — the underside is dull brown with eyespots, like a dead leaf 🍂 In flight it flashes blue-brown-blue, so predators keep losing it mid-chase
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MONT SAINT-MICHEL, Normandy, France 🇫🇷
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the Gothic abbey on a tidal island. Europe's biggest tides (up to 15 m) surround it twice a day. Victor Hugo said the sea rushes in 'at the speed of a galloping horse' 🐎
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He MEANT to do that 😱🪂 Not an accident — this is a planned BASE jump into Majlis al-Jinn, Oman, one of the largest cave chambers on Earth. He leaps through a hole in the roof and freefalls into the dark… on purpose. Would YOU jump? 👇 #ExtremeSports #BASEjump #Oman 🎥: Quest Films via Wikimedia Commons
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The chamber is 310 metres long with a ceiling 120 metres high — and the name means "meeting place of the spirits" 👀
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A PINK dolphin 🩷🐬 Spotted this week off Qantab Beach in Muscat, Oman — swimming alongside its regular grey podmates. Experts haven't confirmed the species yet… Real, or too good to be true? 👇 #PinkDolphin #Oman #Wildlife 📸: Leonard Reback via Wikimedia Commons
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Why pink? Humpback dolphins are born dark grey and lose pigment as they age — blood vessels under the pale skin flush PINK, especially when they're active 🩷 The Oman dolphin is very likely one of these.
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THE LAST GENERATION TO SEE FIREFLIES? ✨ That claim went viral this week — and scientists say it's not true. Not YET. Fireflies really are disappearing: a study of 24,000+ surveys found them declining. The surprising culprit? Our lights. Their glow is how they find each other — and city lights are drowning out the signals. 2,000+ species still light up summer nights around the world. When did YOU last see one? 👇 #Fireflies #Nature #Wildlife 📸: Zsolyomi via Wikimedia Commons
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TOMORROW NIGHT: look up 🌠 The Orionids peak — pieces of Halley's Comet, burning up at 66 km/s #️⃣ #Orionids #MeteorShower 📸: Jim Vajda via Wikimedia Commons
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PSG 🆚 BARÇA — TOMORROW, 3 PM ET ⚽ The two most electric attacks in Europe. PSG have 10 goals in 2 Champions League games. Barça are 11-for-11 this season with 48 goals. Somebody's perfect run dies at the Parc des Princes. WHO YOU GOT? 🍿🔥 #️⃣ #UCL #PSG #Barcelona 📸: FotosLaLiga via Wikimedia Commons
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Barça's defense is held together with tape — Eric García out 3–4 weeks, Koundé and Christensen sidelined, an 18-year-old called up. And they're STILL 11-from-11 with 48 goals. The Parc des Princes is the ultimate test 🧪
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FT: PSG 4-2 BARÇA. Somebody's perfect run died at the Parc des Princes tonight — Barça's 11-0 start is over. This game DELIVERED 🍿🔥"
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Two tiny supervisors, judging your life choices 🦊 #️⃣ #Fox #Wildlife #CuteAnimals 🎥: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Wikimedia Commons
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Wild fox fact 🧭 Scientists found foxes may use Earth's magnetic field as a rangefinder when they pounce — they mostly jump facing northeast, and it works 73% of the time vs 18% in other directions
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