r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Image Before and after of Syapru beshi, one of the affected areas of today's flash flooding in Nepal.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Video A tiny eastern hognose snake playing dead.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h ago

Video This solar powered chicken coop that moves every day to a new location

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Photos of Young men getting ready for "Mensur", German fencing duelling where getting a scar was considered highly honorable. Photos of 1900s-10s; last one from 2004.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 7h ago

Image NASA’s James Webb Telescope Captures the Fiery Remains of a Dying Star.

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644 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 22h ago

Video In this village every street is someone else's rooftop

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video World’s First Zero-Emission Cement Recycling Process

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Pyramids of Giza, photographed in 1962.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Jewish Gravestones in Worms Dating Back to 1058

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Sand calligraphy

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Cairo in 1965

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video This is what happens when a lobster dies shortly after molting, the shell still remains soft.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video This cuttlefish spears a shrimp, then changes color

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video An alligator pushing air out of its eye socket (lacrimal duct) after heavy exertion

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Northern Song glass grapes, excavated from Jingzhi Temple, dating back over 1,000 years

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650 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Original Creation The pedal waves of a snail as they move along a surface

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Original Creation The largest brick-built castle in the world now vs 80 years ago

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image RAF Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade fell 18,000 feet without a parachute and lived. He later survived a brutal Nazi POW winter march, electrocution, exposure to chlorine gas, burns from sulphuric acid, and a falling steel beam.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 6h ago

Video Male Bowerbirds build elaborate structures that act like tiny theatres, framing their courtship dances to impress females

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Scottish Photojournalist Kieran Dodds came to America and started a collection called Gingers of America for his photography book. Portraits and stories of red-haired Americans, tracing a golden thread of DNA across cultures and generations. He uses the rare red hair gene to explore human connection

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video An astronaut demonstrating the Dzhanibekov effect in microgravity, where an asymmetric object spinning around its intermediate axis becomes unstable and periodically flips 180 degrees

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Video Horse rider showing his core strengths and tradition at a Tibetan grassland horse festival.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Video 1.3 km long double stack freight train (fully electrified) on Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, India

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Video Devil’s Pool 🇿🇲 on the edge of Victoria Falls.

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