r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Top-Marionberry-6604 • 6h ago
Video Bystanders form a human chain to save the driver from a flash flood.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Spectre_Omega • 11h 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 • u/-chibcha- • 4h 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 • u/Bored_Millenial- • 10h ago
Submerged Hallingen Islands after storm
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/EchoesOfYouth • 23h ago
Video A Bugatti Chiron accelerating to 417kph (260mph) on the German autobahn
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1h 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 • u/Mors_Acerba • 4h 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 • u/Better_Hair_9673 • 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 • u/mendbinding • 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 • u/ZoaddictCorals • 12h ago
Original Creation An anemone “waking up” for the day
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ABDOOUU99 • 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 • u/God_of_Matrix • 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 • u/ClavicusLittleGift4U • 13m 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 • u/Party_Farmer_5354 • 1d 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 • u/-chibcha- • 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 • u/anikkundu1998 • 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 • u/AlwaysReady1 • 3m 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 • u/Ok_Jellyfish5603 • 1d ago
Image The amount of CO from fires in Indonesia right now.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nigablackballsack • 2d ago
Video This is Spiny butterfly ray, an IUCN listed globally endangered species.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HeadChance123 • 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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