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The 22 Most Surprising Photos of the Month

From dogs suckling tiger cubs to earthquake skaters, each photograph will surprise you as TIME shares the most outrageous images from August 2014

TOPSHOTS-CHINA-ANIMAL-SHARK Students of Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School are suspended in mid-air as they practise in a dress rehearsal for a stunt performance which is part of the opening ceremony of the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, at a stadium in Nanjing China's Face-kini Becomes Unlikely Global Fashion Hit Fireworks streak past in front of the supermoon outside the town of Mosta Biblical Whale Inflated On Weston-Super-Mare Beach Elk in the office Villagers Offer Up Gifts To Volcano As Part Of Yadnya Kasada Festival Nepalese Hindu devotee observe Fathers Day A lone house is seen at the construction site of an urban transformation project in Fikirtepe A femal dog feeds two-day-old tiger cubs and her puppy at a zoo in Hefei APTOPIX Germany Zoo APTOPIX Nicaragua Santo Domingo 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games - Day 10 High waves hitting the Qiantang River bank Crisis in Ukraine Opening of 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' at Tower of London TOPSHOTS-ISRAEL-ULTRA-ORTHODOX-VACATION-DEAD SEA APTOPIX China Earthquake Eurofurence 2014 TOPSHOTS-INDIA-RELIGION-FESTIVAL-WRESTLING California Earthquake

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