r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 2m ago

Video Mishima, a life in four chapters

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1h ago

Video Tomomi Nishikubo's Preparation vs. Result

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 4h ago

A spider web built inside another spider web

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 4h ago

Video A worker climbing down Mount Danxia, China. Imagine having to do this as part of your daily routine.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 7h ago

Image A 1950 photo of the sky taken at Palomar observatory shows nine star-like points that weren't there half an hour earlier

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 7h ago

Image Rediscovered in 1903, The linear Elamite was one of the oldest syllabus systems along Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs (4200 years). It remained untranslatable until 2022 when a team led by French archeologist and epigraph François Desset finally deciphered it after 18 years of work.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 8h ago

Image Photo of Haitian engineer Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche with wife Juliette Lafargue and family. He was the only person of african descendant to perish on the Titanic (14/04/1912), his wife and children survived. Photo circa 1911 in France.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 8h ago

Some shots of the Moon during the morning and early evening

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 11h ago

Image In 1260 AD, Siena defeated a much larger florentine force at the batte of Montaperti, largely thanks to a couple of florentines who agreed to betray their side by killing their own flag bearers. The 18 meter(60 feet) tall flagpoles were taken as trophies and remain at Siena's cathedral to this day

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 12h ago

This is a male proboscis monkey. Its massive nose acts as a sound amplifier to attract mates and intimidate rivals. These monkeys have webbed feet and are exceptional swimmers, helping them navigate Borneo’s coastal mangroves, rivers, and rainforests.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 14h ago

Video Bystanders form a human chain to save the driver from a flash flood.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 18h ago

Submerged Hallingen Islands after storm

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 19h ago

An Ottoman supply train sitting exactly where it was ambushed and derailed 112 years ago by Lawrence of Arabia's forces during WWI

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 19h ago

Original Creation An anemone “waking up” for the day

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1d ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1d 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 • • 1d 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 • • 1d ago

Video Voladores de Papantla, Mexico

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1d 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 • • 1d 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 • • 1d 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 • • 1d 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 • • 1d 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 • • 1d ago

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

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