16+ Pics That Mean So Much More Once You Know The Stories Behind Them

While he was walking on the beach, he came across a dead fish caught in a plastic bag. After his parent explained the effects that someone's waste can have on the ocean, he started his own little #Trashtag.

Despite being on vacation, he soon busied himself with picking up trash until he ended up with 10 buckets full of the stuff.

Very nice work!

This is her first time visiting one and this moment was preceded by her running and spinning around. What she's really saying here is, "How are you so awesome?"

Here we see a soon-to-be inmate trying to feel the rain for what could be the last time. Without knowing what they're in for, we can only allow this sad moment to exist in and of itself.

Despite what the blue and white checkers would lead us to believe, this notice wasn't put up by any police department. That's why it's a "polite notice" and not a police notice.

Not to mention, if we only had the "after" photo as a frame of reference, we might not appreciate how well they made their mural blend in.

We might figure the people aren't real, but the roof is a little harder to spot.

One commenter worried about the roots cracking the house's foundation, but according to the Arborist Network in Australia, it's not even particularly common for them to damage and enter pipes.

Depending on what it was made of, the foundation should hold firm.

She ended up getting 30 inches of hair removed and her mission for that hair was to donate it to make wigs for children with cancer.

That's because it once belonged to Theodore Kaczynski, who is better known as the Unabomber. He lived in this cabin in the wilderness for seven years before he started his bombing campaign in 1978.

The cabin is now on display at the Newseum in Washington D.C.

Unfortunately, this is just how much it can cost to break your leg in the U.S.

Although insurance can cover some of the costs, the uploader's family had the misfortune of losing the job that provided it shortly before this happened.

That's because the anti-theft alarm was placed so close to the change rooms that it goes off whenever sometimes tries to use a fitting room.

It's actually a bag of cement that somebody threw into the woods for unclear reasons and the moss showed up after it got wet.

She thought that of the basement, by the way, not necessarily the statue. If she wanted to enhance the creepy factor, however, she definitely pulled that off.

The only thing that may be a little hard to make out here is that they deliberately wrote this message in Comic Sans just to express how unpleasant their customer experience was.

It's nice to know that font's good for something.

That's because this is actually what it looks like to have bone cancer.

According to The Journal of the National Cancer Institute, cancer causes the most pain when it spreads to the bones and this photo is very illustrative as to why.

Apparently, you're supposed to take off your shoes before using it and the receptionist will provide the key to the room and some boxing gloves.

Presumably, the idea is to punch the walls or whatever else is in there until the pent-up aggression has been released.

Instead, the guest at this hotel in the Czech Republic had to dig through a drawer to find the folder that tells them the price of using this kettle.

Whether they actually know somebody has done that or not, it's pretty sneaky.

According to the 9/11 Memorial and museum's website, volunteers will place the roses on a victim's name when their birthday comes around.

The person who is perhaps the most dedicated to doing this is museum volunteer George Mironis, who actually survived the tragedy.

The photographer also said they stitched two photos together so there wouldn't be any motion blur.

They also set their shutter speed to about 20 seconds and kept the circle up until the shutter closed.

It's incredible how much teamwork it took to achieve a single photograph. The sheer amount of brilliance in one group is amazing.

She and her mate are yearly residents of the park, but the mate was found dead the previous week. They thought the nest had been abandoned, but mom returned to protect her eggs.

The river valley, not the online store.

The males are pink as part their ways to attract mates. They will also hold plants in their mouths or balance turtles to attract the ladies.

The galaxy is 2.5 million light years away and the farthest celestial body we can see with the naked eye. The photographer carefully brightened it for a more detailed look.

That's because in Spanish and Hispanic cultures, it's not a tooth fairy but a friendly mouse called Ratón Pérez who exchanges baby teeth for small gifts.

More specifically, the 100,000 knives enclosed were either confiscated or surrendered to police throughout the U.K. and messages from the families of knife crime victims are engraved on the wings.

I say, "supposedly," because the comments don't seem to believe this story, but since they haven't found any evidence to confirm or disprove that this is what happened, we'll just call it "unconfirmed."

It's pretty fascinating if it's true, though.