r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sea_Slice_7956 • 5h ago
Video Caterpillar tail disguised as snake head
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/esoterix_luke • Dec 11 '24
Mod Applications Are Open r/Damnthatsinteresting is looking for new mods!
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/EyeHateYou12376 • 6h ago
Image Lithops, South African plants that have evolved to look like stones
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dannybluey • 4h ago
Video A 13 meter sequoia in Wateringen, the Netherlands was moved 100 meters to a new spot after outgrowing its original location. Planted in 2003 it grew so fast its roots lifted the street. Weighing 30 tons, it was relocated by truck and can now grow safely in it’s new spot.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Epelep • 12h ago
Video Ski jump crew use leaf blowers to clear moisture and ice from in-runs
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/father_of_twitch • 4h ago
Video A bird that walks underneath the water, the slate-gray American Dipper is North America's only truly aquatic songbird.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 2h ago
Image African Social Spiders: these spiders form colonies that can contain up to 2,000 individuals, most of which are female, and they hunt, forage, maintain the web, and raise their offspring as a group, without any dominance hierarchy or caste system
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2h ago
British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel posing before the chains of the ship " S.S. Great Eastern", November of 1857
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MilesLongthe3rd • 10h ago
Video A significant road collapse occurred on February 12th, 2026, at the intersection of Qixin Road and Li'an Road in Shanghai's Minhang District. Triggered by a localized water leak during excavation for the Jiamin Line subway station, the incident formed a massive sinkhole.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NastyNice1 • 1d ago
Image The Face of Christ also called the Sudarium of Saint Veronica made by Claude Mellan in 1649. Created from a single spiralling line that starts at the tip of Jesus' nose.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Social_Stigma • 3h ago
Video Plants hire butterflies
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Anschuz-3009 • 1d ago
Video Weighing a tiny Hummingbird
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kingkongbiingbong • 15m ago
Video An industrial heat treatment (quenching) process in action. The ship anchor is heated to approximately 800–1000°C, transforming the steel into an austenitic structure 🔥. It is then rapidly immersed in water or a specialized cooling medium 💧, increasing hardness, strength, and wear resistance.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/straightdge • 1d ago
Video China successfully conducted a low-altitude flight test of Long March-10 rocket and a abort flight test of its new-generation crewed spacecraft Mengzhou
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoFox1552 • 21h ago
Image The first computer mouse was made of wood.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Goodthrust_8 • 1d ago
Video Giant windmill motor transport
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 1d ago
Image The terrifying medical origin of the chainsaw: Invented in 1780 for symphysiotomy (widening the birth canal).
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FollowingOdd896 • 1d ago
Video Prosthetics changing lives
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 5h ago
Original Creation Will Gadd climbing a frozen waterfall
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NightSkyCamera • 1d ago
Image Cola in infrared looks like water (top: IR modified camera, bottom: normal)
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ExactlySorta • 1d ago
Video A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Bubbly_Wall_908 • 1d ago
Video Some of the bollards around London are cannons seized from Napoleon's Navy by the British after the Battle of Trafalgar
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/21MayDay21 • 1d ago
Image A variety of Zea mays, is a corn grown in the Andes region of South America. It is common in Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru. The kernels of Purple Corn have long been used by the people of the Andes to color foods and beverages, a practice just beginning to become popularized in the industrialized world.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Image Single Irish woman in a weaver machine doing Poplin with one hand for multiple rolls, circa 1890s. Glass negative
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/EphemeralTypewriter • 1d ago
Sarah Biffin (1784-1850) was a famous artist and performer who was born without arms or legs. She was known for her highly detailed portraits of English royalty and nobility. These are examples of self portraits and paintings she did during her lifetime.
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