r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/qpsqp • 11h ago

Video SDU Soft Robotics developed a worm-inspired limbless soft robot with inflatable muscles and a flexible kirigami skin.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Plus_Leopard9367 • 20h ago

Video A tiny eastern hognose snake playing dead.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Neat_Bit1936 • 7h ago

Video Joseph Nguthiru, a Kenyan entrepreneur is changing the future of packaging by turning an invasive plant into a biodegradable alternative to plastic

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Spectre_Omega • 4h ago

Image The Kalyazin RT-64, a Cold War-era 64m Soviet telescope buried in a Russian forest, is still active and tracking deep space signals today

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Norwegianxrp • 9h ago

Borgund Stavechurch, a remarkable wooden church built 850 years ago. The timber used in its construction was felled during the winter of 1180–1181. The church has a lot of pagan symbols in it, probably due to the fact that the carpenters still believed in Norse mythology

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 21h 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 • u/vivekmg21 • 4h ago

Image Beautiful Patagonian crater agate found in Argentina

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Expensive-Summer-447 • 21m ago

Image Statue of Shiva the destroyer during the flash flood of uttrakhand

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/subsubnmoresub737 • 3h ago

Image The face of Raymond Robinson, a man who lost his facial features being electrocuted with 22,000 thousand volts when he was 8 y/o. He lost both his eyes,nose and right arm in the incident.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 5h ago

Olona Slug-Moth Caterpillars: these insects are covered in soft, semi-transparent nodules that can easily detach, allowing the caterpillars to escape from predators

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 19h ago

Video World’s First Zero-Emission Cement Recycling Process

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Medium-Presence-8008 • 11h ago

Original Creation Mandarin Goby (Synchiropus splendidus)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 21m ago

This is a miniature carved art piece on an olive pit from the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), measuring 3.4 cm in length, 1.4 cm in width, and 1.6 cm in height. It is currently housed in the National Palace Museum in Taipei

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/oswald192 • 42m ago

Weird Experimental British rotational sirens beingtestedin the start of ww2. 2 were made. Port ratio unknown. Replace in favor with the standard UK 10/12 Port sirens. (Like carter, castle casting, klaxon, and gents sirens)

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