When I was a kid, my favorite part of birthday parties was the goodie bag at the end, and I don't think I'm alone in that. Sure, there was food and playing and cake and all that, but you got to go home with something! For free!
You can think of the extra info you get with these pics as the birthday party goodie bag — not what you came for, but something you get to take home anyway. What you do with it is up to you, but we want you to enjoy it all the same.
Some varieties of apples with red flesh include the Pink Pearl and the Mountain Rose.
An earthquake struck, shifting the position of the plants.
That is a bad day for that truck driver.
A group launched a weather balloon from Tennessee with a camera and some GPS equipment on board, and it was recovered in South Carolina.
Which explains the edge of the doormat at the bottom of the pic.
While it's an architectural curiosity, Crosley Tower was also named one of the ugliest university buildings in America by Architectural Digest.
The idea behind the checkerboard pattern is to reduce the effect of logging on the ecosystem, and it's been practiced since the 1860s.
The nice thing is that they stick out, so they're easy to spot when they're out in the wild, which is always the first step to getting them back home.
See, that's what happens when the batteries inside get so corroded and swollen that the corrosion leaks through the side. Handle with care!
The new Statue of Unity is a towering 182 meters (597 feet) tall, almost twice as high as the Statue of Liberty.
Actually, it looks pretty fun, but I wonder how bad you'd smell after the race.
It's part of an annual tradition around Halloween and it draws hundreds of participants to the Willamette River, all while gathering donations for local charities.
I'm particularly impressed by how well the horse is taking the helmet portion of this AT-AT costume.
Cuttlebones, taken from cuttlefish, are actually shells, and they're often given to birds to peck away at as a source of calcium.
Because you have now! Although they look quite different from the regular orange carrots, they don't taste very different.
Apparently, this fellow is a gentle giant and quite popular at the safari park he calls home.
Here's hoping that cleaning up soot was the worst of this fire.
They might have had some difficulties on the East Coast, but by and large, it's surprisingly faithful.
It will have a primary mirror 39 meters in diameter and gather more light than all of the existing 8-10 meter telescopes on earth combined.
Fittingly, this construction work is happening at a zoo. You have to love the Latinized names, like Shovelis maximus.
Because they're in Dubai, and they're trying to get the entire Burj Khalifa into their camera's frame. That's dedication!
Someone planted deciduous trees among the evergreens to make a smiley face in the fall when the colors change. Kind of a brilliant long-term plan, right?
Seems like a pretty effective anti-counterfeiting measure.
