r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1h ago

how the Oval Office looked under each president since Eisenhower

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 8h ago

Image A shop in Cadiz, Spain displaying traditional outfits worn by Nazarenos, clarifying it's not the KKK

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 6h ago

Image A skeleton belonging to an extinct sea turtle called *Archelon ischyros*—one of the largest turtles to have ever lived—was first discovered as a fossil in 1895 in the U.S. state of South Dakota.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 2h ago

Video Grass-carrying wasp (Isodontia mexicana) storing paralysed grasshoppers in its nest chamber for its young to feed on after they hatch.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1h ago

Video A Bugatti Chiron accelerating to 417kph (260mph) on the German autobahn

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 14h ago

Video The Red Sky in Indonesia Caused by Forest Fires Set to Clear Land for Palm Oil Plantations

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 9h ago

Video Stained glass looks completely different when refracted sunlight projects nearby, giving the refracted light an almost holographic effect.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 6h ago

Image This is Red Beach in China. It's located within one of the world’s largest wetland and reed marshes, where the red Suaeda salsa plant covers the ground. The plant sprouts green in the spring, shifts to a fiery red in the fall, and turns deep purple in winter.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1h ago

Image The shadow of second highest mountain in the world K2, projected into China across hundreds of miles. Photo by Chris B. Warner

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 13h ago

Video Snake rescue

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1d ago

Video This is Spiny butterfly ray, an IUCN listed globally endangered species.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 18h ago

Video Jumping rope without jumping

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 11h ago

Image The amount of CO from fires in Indonesia right now.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1d ago

Video Grape bonsai by Georgian master Alexander Meskhi, who has been growing bonsai for over 30 years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1d ago

Original Creation We found a Mindo Harlequin Toad (declared extinct in 1989)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 7h ago

Image NASA’s “Black Marble”: Earth’s cities glowing at night, visualized using nighttime observations from the Suomi NPP satellite. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory / Joshua Stevens)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 4h ago

Video Voladores de Papantla, Mexico

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1d ago

What a vinyl record groove actually looks like under an electron microscope

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1d ago

Image The Colossus of the Apennines (Italy, 16th century) is a 35 foot tall stone sculpture. It has rooms inside, a fireplace designed to blow smoke from the giant's nostrils, and even a system of pipes that made the giant appear to sweat and cry real water.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1d ago

Video MBARI captures deep-sea squid carrying 360 eggs 1.4 km below the ocean's surface.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1d ago

Video Ogoh Ogoh Parade in Bali, Held Evening Before Nyepi

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 2d ago

Image A bizarre bulbous-shaped skull discovered inside an ancient funerary urn in Catamarca, Argentina. Archaeologists confirmed the dome-like shape is the result of 'erect tabular deformation' applied to infants between the 3rd and 12th centuries AD.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 2d ago

Video A Live Reenactment of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, on Its 70th Anniversary

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 2d ago

Scientists may have found the real night sky behind Van Gogh’s The Starry Night

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