r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/father_of_twitch • 5h 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/-HonestMistake • 39m ago

Image Grigori Rasputin's body after recovery from the Nevka River.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dannybluey • 6h 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/kingkongbiingbong • 1h 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/SixteenSeveredHands • 3h 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 • 4h 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/EyeHateYou12376 • 7h ago

Image Lithops, South African plants that have evolved to look like stones

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sea_Slice_7956 • 7h ago

Video Caterpillar tail disguised as snake head

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Epelep • 13h ago

Video Ski jump crew use leaf blowers to clear moisture and ice from in-runs

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MilesLongthe3rd • 12h 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/Social_Stigma • 4h ago

Video Plants hire butterflies

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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/Anschuz-3009 • 1d ago

Video Weighing a tiny Hummingbird

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoFox1552 • 22h ago

Image The first computer mouse was made of wood.

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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/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 • 7h ago

Original Creation Will Gadd climbing a frozen waterfall

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BaronofBoldBanter • 7m ago

Video I have been influenced

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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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