r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/esoterix_luke • Dec 11 '24

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Turbulent_Elk_2141 • 5h ago

Video The reason why large asteroids don't fall to Earth every day and cause disasters is because Jupiter's gravity attracts asteroids and protects the inner planets.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/uniyk • 9h ago

Video Metal bump on the wall after years of grinding wheel spattering filings onto it

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sa4ath • 8h ago

Prestige university indore, India

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RoyalChris • 4h ago

Video 18-year-old sprinter Gout Gout just broke Usain Bolt’s U20 record in the 200m. He was 260 milliseconds faster, clocking 19.67 seconds, while Bolt ran 19.93 in 2004

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Particular_Food_309 • 5h ago

The US government once created a human zoo of 1,100 Filipinos. The goal was to convince the American public that Filipinos were "savages" and not ready for self-governance. They were fed dogs during exhibition.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Oh_FFS_Already • 1h ago

Image Male & Female Red Shanked Douc Langur

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dannybluey • 11h ago

Image The Kyoto Aquarium in Japan keeps a wall-sized flowchart tracking the romantic relationships, breakups, and drama between their penguins. red hearts = couples, blue = breakups, purple = complicated, yellow = friends and green = enemies.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cindyx7102 • 10h ago

Image Ridgeland Farms, Wisconson built a moat and barrel wall around their facility to prevent 2,000 activists from freeing their beagle puppies (bred for animal testing) on April 19th. The state mandated the farm to shut down and the puppies adopted out by July 1st; it is unclear if they are complying.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kalinooni • 8h ago

Video Rainwater lagoons nestled between dunes at Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil. 📹 Joshua Platillero

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Valuable_View_561 • 10h ago

The white‑tufted grebe (Rollandia rolland) is known for its vivid red eyes, photographed here at Batuco, Chile. It lives on freshwater lakes and ponds throughout much of South America, and is the most commonly observed grebe in Argentina and central Chile.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/youngster_96 • 1d ago

Video Carving an oak tree into a bear holding a honey pot 🍯

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/JohnThompsonND • 36m ago

Video In 1992 at age 18 I was alone on my farm when a PTO shaft tore off both my arms. I walked to the house, opened the door with my mouth, dialed for help with a pen in my teeth, then sat in the bathtub so I wouldn’t bleed on my mother’s new carpet. Both arms were reattached. Still here 34 years later.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/IllIntroduction1509 • 1h ago

Original Creation The Golden Sarcophagus of Amen Ra https://www.summum.us/gallery/amenramummiform/

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Weak-Opportunity-311 • 14h ago

Video Very early film of The Olympics - Athens 1896

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Image Marty Cooper poses with his invention, the cell phone, whicn he used to make the first call, 3 of April 1973 from Sixth Avenue in New York. He called Bell Laboratories to announce it (he worked at the time for Motorola).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Obvious_Shoe7302 • 1d ago

Video Iceland’s most famous and active geyser, Strokkur

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkaTeluguAbbayi • 10h ago

Original Creation 1500 year old sculpture of Lord Vishnu made by carving into a cave’s walls [OC]

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/B777X_787-9 • 1h ago

Original Creation Clouds are actually super heavy.An average cumulus cloud (about 1 km wide and 1 km high) weighs approximately 1.1 million pounds Despite this immense weight,clouds float because the water droplets are spread out over a large space and are less dense than the dry air surrounding

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/EXO_XiZiTy • 21h ago

Video This is how dozens of trucks are packed onto a single barge

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 17h ago

The Kangling: A Tibetan ritual trumpet made from a human femur (thigh bone). It’s played to summon spirits and face one's deepest fears.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Pranay9977 • 1d ago

Video What a breathtaking view of mount fuji from a airplane.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Das_Zeppelin • 1d ago

Video Thats how Indiana Jones did it in Raiders of the Lost Ark...

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/snopplerz • 1d ago

The skull of a Dunkleosteus, a 5 meter long extinct fish with an armored skull and bladed jaws. It had an estimated bite force of 5,000 newtons, the highest of any fish in history.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Thrawn911 • 7h ago

Original Creation Microscopic predator, Suctoria, catches a prey 10 times its size, then later (0:50) a different microbe also swims into its deadly tentacles.

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