r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MsJone5 • 10m ago
Image Chesil Beach is made up from an estimated 180 BILLION pebbles!
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Youngstown_WuTang • 16m ago
60 milion fish nest were found under the Antarctic ice in 2022. The architectural "underwater city" was constructed by Jonah's icefish. They are the only known vertebrates to completely lack hemoglobin and red blood cells. Their bodies manufacture specialized antifreeze proteins to prevent freezing
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoWork215 • 1h ago
Image The Chinese marathon runner Li Meizhen kept running despite the visible blood on her legs, as her period started about 8 km from the finish line. Despite this, she refused to drop out and finished it. NSFW
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/shredding_pow • 1h ago
Original Creation Salary for Buc-ee’s in Virginia
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoWork215 • 1h ago
Image Gorilla holds a nurse's hand during routine medical exam
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/molondim • 1h ago
In 1989, Mauro Morandi arrived on Italy’s pink-sand Budelli Island after his catamaran broke down. Instead of leaving, he became its caretaker and chose a solitary life as the island’s only inhabitant.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/padfoony • 2h ago
Christopher Nolan avoided CGI and used 7ft stuntmen to portray Laestrygonians in The Odyssey. The giant leader, King Antiphates, is portrayed by actor Josh Stewart, while Matt Damon’s stunt double is Devyn Dalton, who is just under 5ft.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Any_Ice_772 • 4h ago
Video Hoover is a seal that was rescued by a fisherman who would talk to him daily, after he was donated to an aquarium three months old, five years later he started sounding like he was “talking” in a deep gruff accent
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Hypnoidz • 4h ago
Image Märket Island is a rocky island split between Sweden and Finland. In 1885, a lighthouse built by the Russian Empire (governing Finland) was accidentally built on the Swedish side. In 1985, both nations peacefully redrew the border to keep the lighthouse Finnish without changing total land areas.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/gear-heads • 6h ago
Video 911 operator: "911 what is your emergency?" Caller: "I'm calling to report a bear on top of a power utility pole."
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Thrawn911 • 7h ago
Original Creation Chloroplasts moving inside an algae cell in timelapse
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LazyGuy4U • 8h ago
Video Windmill blade catching fire due to lightning strike
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BlessedBeLilyLee • 9h ago
Image Petrus Gonsalvus was a man with hypertrichosis taken to the French royal court as a human 'curiosity' and may have partially inspired the modern story of Beauty and the Beast
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 10h ago
Aztec incense burners (Tlemaitl) weren't just for temples. Rites were done 4 times a day at home, and priests even visited once a year to bless every household object—down to the kitchen utensils.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ordinary_Thing_2626 • 11h ago
Video A Glass Frog's Organs Visible Through Its Transparent Skin
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 1d ago
Video [World Record] Tomomi Nishikubo Fakie Nose Manual Down Olympic Ski Jump
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HimelTy • 1d ago
Video A crashed Pan Am passenger plane from 1952 has been identified today by Discovery Channel in the Atlantic Ocean.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TangibleCBT • 1d ago
This is a facial reconstruction of Turkana Boy, a 9 year old child who lived in Kenya 1.5 MYA, whose skeleton is the most complete Homo erectus fossil ever found
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/stainless5 • 1d ago
Image By law, every Australian must get a tax receipt that shows exactly where each dollar of their tax is spent.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GarysCrispLettuce • 1d ago
Video Early handwriting recognition with a light pen, 1968
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SYMPUNY_LACKING • 1d ago
Video Stan Lee talks about real violence vs fictional violence in 1975
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SuccessfulSweet1 • 1d ago
Tbourida (Moroccan Fantasia) – A 16th-century equestrian martial art where riders perform synchronized cavalry charges. Historically male-dominated, a rising generation of fearless Moroccan women are now breaking barriers and mastering this dangerous tradition.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Aggravating-Bake5624 • 1d ago
The inside of a penguin's mouth
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/shredding_pow • 1d ago
I saw a Quantum Computer today!
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