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THE MILLAU VIADUCT is part of the new E11 expressway connecting Paris and Barcelona and
features the highest bridge piers ever constructed. The tallest is 240 meters high and the overall height will be an impressive 336 meters, making this the highest bridge in the world.

 A Volswagen Polo is loaded in the car towers of the VW Autostadt in Wolfsburg, northern Germany.

A nice selection of optical illusion:

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It turns out that without even noticing it, those over 45 years of age (today) have witnessed the most significant demographic event in the history of human population. Global human numbers have more than doubled from 3 billion in 1960 to 6.5 billion in 2005. If 2005 fertility rates remain constant, global population will reach 11.7 billionby 2050.

It turns out that astronomers have recently discovered what is believed to be a dark galaxy; a starless mass of spinning matter located some 50 million light-years away in the Virgo cluster of galaxies.