Amazing Discoveries Found In The Most Bizarre Places

Published on 11/12/2023
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4. World’s Largest Flower Found in Jungle

Location: West Sumatra, Indonesia
Year Discovered: 2020
Est. Value: Unknown

Exploring a distant jungle in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province, environmentalists found the world’s largest flower bloom. It’s the Rafflesia tuan-mudae species of flower, renowned for its enormous, elusive blossoms that open for barely a week at the end of the plant’s life. With a 3.6-foot diameter, this enormous blossom was the biggest Rafflesia ever measured. The flesh-colored petals of the flower, speckled with white, make it simple to identify. Given that the flower belongs to the “corpse flower” category of flora, which implies that it smells like a dead body, this unfavorable description is accurate.

4. World’s Largest Flower Found In Jungle

4. World’s Largest Flower Found In Jungle

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5. Shark Found In Middle of Golf Course

Location: San Juan Capistrano, California
Year Discovered: 2012
Est. Value: $850*

When Sharknado debuted in 2013, we all made fun of it, but it looks like Thunder Levin ended up with the last laugh since perhaps his films weren’t as fictitious as we initially thought. A shark did indeed fall from the sky and land close to the twelfth tee of a California golf course (a year before those movies came out, no less). The two-pound leopard shark fell to the turf at San Juan Capistrano Golf Course, shocking the staff. It turns out that a bird dropped the leopard shark by mistake, and it was recovered alive from the ocean. Cart attendants drove the bewildered fish to Baby Beach, where they released it back into its proper habitat after placing it in a bucket of sea water.

5. Shark Found In Middle Of Golf Course

5. Shark Found In Middle Of Golf Course

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