27 Pics That Get Much More Interesting When You Hear The Full Story

If this is your first time seeing one, that won't be much of a surprise because only a couple of hundred exist in the world.

This has to do with how sensitive their skin is to sunlight, as any specimen that can't retreat into the shady Louisiana bayou is likely to be sunburned to death.

Specifically, these kids are celebrating Denmark's Fastelavn festival, a children's festival that works a little bit like Mardi Gras.

The difference is that it traditionally involves putting a black cat in a barrel and clubbing the barrel with sticks until it breaks. While that might sound bad because it scares the cat, the Scandinavian Standard reported that earlier variants of this tradition were even worse because they either featured the flogging of children or infertile young women. Another variant apparently also encouraged kids to wake their parents up by hitting them.

It's worth noting that these more violent traditions weren't particularly widespread in Denmark and haven't been practiced for years.

If this makes you feel a little uneasy, that's probably how the person who lives here wants you to feel because these are actually life-size stickers they put on their windows.

This is the view of a single drop of seawater under a microscope.

As we can see, any photo taken with a flash will only illuminate the reflective scarf he's wearing. And so, the photographer ends up with a worthless picture that doesn't really show its subject.

If you're looking at that puffy suit and think it looks like an off-brand version of the Michelin Man, you're incredibly close to the truth.

Although this was an official suit for the mascot, it was also the first one made before they really smoothed his look out.

It's actually a statue in Wejherowo, Poland and depicts its founder Jakub Wejher. But when the snow falls, his true allegiance to the dark side of the Force is revealed.

Look how amazing the chrysalis of a Tithorea tarricina butterfly is! It looks like gold.

That's because these aren't cliffs at all, but rather what a crack in some steel looks like under an electron microscope.

Buddhism is a major religion in Thailand and as Reuters reported, touching Buddhist monks is considered a serious taboo.

For that reason, they're eligible for priority boarding in Thai airports to prevent any accidental contact.

That's because this image of St. Paul's Cathedral in London was taken during the Battle of Britain in 1940, which saw German and British fighter planes in constant dogfights over the nation.

When they were shot in the face with a BB gun 15 years ago, they assumed the pellet had bounced off their cheek.

It turns out that it was actually stuck in their cheek all along and magnets will still react to its presence a decade and a half later.

But in Southeast Asia, you can find the pink-necked green pigeon, which is a rainbow with wings. Look at those feet!

If pigeons everywhere looked like this, people would probably like them more.

But the original Star Wars crawl had to be done the hard way by printing the text and slowly moving a camera down to make it look like it's scrolling up.

If you hold your pen a certain way while writing over an extended period of time, your finger can develop this little lump in response.

In their case, we're looking at the result of 13 years of writing. In my case, it took about 17 years before I was typing more often than I was writing by hand.

Six years later, my lump is still there, but it's flatter and less obvious than it used to be.

Apparently, when deep in their natural habitat, they look more like a regular fish, but the change in pressure from those watery depths to the surface squashes them.

It's a crosswalk, but instead of pressing a button and staring awkwardly across the road at the stranger waiting on the other side, you can challenge them to a game of Pong.

That's due to what's called the "natural pinhole phenomenon". When there is an eclipse, a common way to see it safely is to make a pinhole camera. Tiny gaps between overlapping leaves can create the same effect, showering the ground with images of the sun.

Yes, not only was Pablo Picasso a master of his craft, but he was also quite the prodigy.

Considering what he could already achieve as a teenager, it's no surprise that he became so experimental later in life. Traditional art can get a little boring when you're this good this early.

After the recent winter storm in Western New York, lake houses got frozen solid by the blowing, icy water.

You can dig out of snow, but ice is a whole different challenge.

I know that it's not the kind of spout referenced in the Itsy Bitsy Spider rhyme, but I can't help but have an epic mental image. Poor spider.

However, it turns out that these are actually solar panels that the business owner didn't want to seem obvious. So they thought of this clever idea.

They aren't magically better at standing en pointe than average people. Their feet have been forced into it and show the damage.

This is actually an array of sand from all over the Sahara Desert, showing how the different conditions and mineral make-up of various regions can completely change the color.

As a study published in the Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America explained, when an animal is born without enough of a protein called myostatin, it can end up with excessive muscle growth like this.

But while the muscles on this cow are certainly large, that doesn't mean it's an unstoppable juggernaut. In fact, mice that had this condition were found in the study to be weaker than those without it.

It helps to know that the bone we're seeing on the right is the femur of an African elephant, while the bone on the left is the femur of a triceratops.

As you can see, both bones are almost as large as an entire person, but the triceratops femur is much thicker than the elephant's.

Specifically, we're looking at the chest of a pro wrestler after he took a particularly rough chop from his opponent.

So while pro wrestling may be scripted, photos like this do a lot to illustrate why it's not really fair to call it "fake."