r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 2d ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 3d ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 3d 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 • • 2d ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 3d ago

Video Ogoh Ogoh Parade in Bali, Held Evening Before Nyepi

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 3d 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 • • 3d ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 4d ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 4d ago

Video BBC Archive footage shows people buying new London homes with £50 deposits (roughly £1300 today).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 4d ago

Video Hell of a sewing machine

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 4d ago

The Church of Saint George in Ethiopia is a 13th-century church carved out from a single solid block of limestone without a single brick, mortar joint, or structural timber. It's still an active place of worship and pilgrimage.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 4d ago

Video Dr Asif Hasan receives Pride of Britain Lifetime Achievement Award, after 35 years and over 4000 operations as a heart surgeon.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 5d ago

Theyyam, an ancient Ritualistic art form of Kerala, India, it features performer who embody divine spirit and Gods through trance like dances and fire rituals.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 4d ago

Video These eeire hole clouds are a phenomenon called fallstreak holes.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 4d ago

Video Healthy coral healing a sick piece of coral just by touching it

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 5d ago

Image The "Duck" in Avenida Place hotel, Barcelona, Spain.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 4d ago

Image In 1975 a 250 million fossil found in South Africa’s Oliviershoek Pass, showed a protomammal; Thrinaxodon (prob. in sleep) with a Broomistega sleeping together sharing the same borrow. The Fossil has been named "Triassic cuddle".

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 5d ago

Video A water buffalo can hold its breath underwater for about 5 minutes .

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 5d ago

Video Zooming in on the Moon and Saturn using an Orion XT8 Dobsonian telescope

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 5d ago

Image Microscopic view of an inkjet printer depositing ink onto paper (photo credit: Ole Bielfeldt)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 5d ago

Video Yellowish, acrid smoke from forest and land fires blankets Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 5d ago

Image Abraham Lincoln is in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. He had one recorded loss in 300 recorded matches and was known for his strength and grappling skills.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 5d ago

Image Stealth fighter inside of a cargo plane

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 5d ago

This is Verrückt in Kansas City, the world’s tallest water slide when it opened in 2014, standing 168 feet tall. Designed by Jeff Henry and John Schooley, neither had formal engineering credentials. It was permanently closed after 10-year-old Caleb Schwab died on the ride in 2016.

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