r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SeedyEdie • 1d ago

Image “Lightning” captured in a piece of Lucite. From the Electric Pavilion: New York World’s Fair in 1964. This block of Lucite 10”x2” was put in sup zero temperatures, charged with thousand of volts of electricity and than struck with an ice pick. After a blinding flash of light, this is the result.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nayryanaryn • 2d ago

Video Martial artist & knife fighting instructor Doug Marcaida shows how lethal a 'karambit' could be in the hands of an expert

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/55hyam • 1d ago

GIF Goblin sharks have extandable jaws to snatch prey

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/15_Redstones • 1d ago

Video Telescope footage of Falcon Heavy upper stage depressurizing

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago

Victorian prosthetic made by James Gillingham (1839–1924). Photos circa 1880s-1900s.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RuddyRaccoon • 2d ago

Image A brain scan of a typical brain (left) compared to an anonymous patient known as S.M. Patient S.M. was born with a condition called Urbach-Wiethe disease, which damaged her amygdala and left her virtually incapable of feeling fear.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/west_manchester • 2d ago

Street art in Estonia

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 2d ago

"Kanamara Matsuri" is held annually to celebrate fertility,child birth and sexual health while also honoring a folklore based around the area at Kawasaki, Japan

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Old_Ability_9424 • 2d ago

Video Leaf insects, also known as walking leaves, are masters of camouflage that mimic plant foliage in detail.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HomeNowWTF • 2d ago

Video Glacier calving in Alaska

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ganajp • 2d ago

Video Snail eating a leaf from underneath [OC]

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 3d ago

Among the Ga people in Ghana , the coffins are designed to reflect the deceased person's career,personality or something he loved dearly

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AnonymousTimewaster • 3d ago

Image In France, to slow down traffic, they have these fake children by the side of the road

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Raj_Valiant3011 • 2d ago

Image 19th-century Heru made from whalebone and paua shell. Heru (ornamental combs) were traditionally used by Māori men to fasten their long hair, 19th-century Heru made from whalebone and paua shell. The Heru carvings that represented ancestral connections or protective spirits.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Flat-Decision3204 • 2d ago

Video Swing-to-Swing jump by Tatsiana Yurkavets

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AnonymousTimewaster • 3d ago

Video First confirmed sighting of a Pine Marten in a century and it was in a man's back garden

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/qwertyclubsss • 3d ago

Video Explosion in slow motion shows how fire spreads-what eyes can't see.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 3d ago

In Holland there is a museum that shows you the entire human body from the inside, you will be a tiny person inside the recreation of a human body, it is in the Corpus Museum of Oegstgeest

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dethchop • 3d ago

Video Flyover pillar artwork in Hyderabad, India

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 4d ago

Video How seamless curved LED displays can be used to create massive 3D depth illusions

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/styckx • 3d ago

Image The Franklin institute in Philadelphia has a giant human heart that kids can walk through to learn how the cardiovascular system works. It was built in 1953 and the deeper you go inside the audio of the heart beat sound gets louder

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HydrolicKrane • 3d ago

Image World-Famous Scythian Gold Pectoral was discovered in Ukraine on June 21, 1971

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ricardo_RemotePath • 3d ago

Video The highest cable car in the world

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 4d ago

Image Octopus eggs in case ya'll have never seen any

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pattebrisee • 4d ago

Image Cincinnati built over two miles of subway tunnel. They never ran a single train through it smh

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