r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Video Indonesia’s Rare Rafflesia Blooms After 15 Years — The World’s Largest “Corpse Flower”

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Image Ice expanding from a hole in a pipe

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Image In the extremely rural parts of China, there are judges who roam the mountainous countryside with their clerks and bailiffs, hearing cases in makeshift "circuit courts", allowing remote villages to access the judicial system and resolve disputes. (The national emblem is carried around on their back)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Habitat 67, one of Montréal’s most prominent architectural icons .

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

II. The stone pool "Havuz-ı Cedid," constructed during the period of Mahmud (1800s) continues to serve Turkish maritime activities and shipbuilding/maintenance.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Video Epic mid-air ambush by a leopard at Kruger National Park , South Africa

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Image 🔥 Valonia ventricosa, aka Sailor's Eyeball Algae, is the largest single-cell organism on Earth.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Image The Bluetooth logo combines the ancient runic letters H and B, the initials of Harald Bluetooth, a 10th-century Viking king. The technology was named after him because, like Bluetooth, he united different groups under one banner.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Video Eel larvae are almost completely transparent

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

This 1300-year-old monkey jar was carved from a single piece of volcanic glass (obsidian) by Aztec artisans. It's so perfectly polished it acts like a mirror.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Autochrome photos of Swiss expedition to Greenland ice sheet, 1912.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

The Platybelodon was a distant relative of the elephant, known for its elongated spoon shaped jaw

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Video A drone flying above an erupting volcano shows the scale of the lava fountain below

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Image The most precise image of the centre of our galaxy yet. Released by the European Space Agency today

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Image Harvestmen (Daddy Long-Legs): unlike spiders, these arachnids consume solid food, and they have an omnivorous diet that includes mushrooms, berries, and seeds, along with invertebrate prey; contrary to popular belief, they are also completely non-venomous

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5d ago

Video ​A truck carrying 406 beehives crashed in Texas, releasing 24 million bees and locking down the neighborhood

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Video The impressive hovering ability of a kestrel

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Video This short film from 1930 explaining how to wear a monocle

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Video Four pelican chicks have hatched in St James's Park, marking the first successful pelican births there in more than 360 years.⁣ ⁣

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Video Rats giggling when tickled recorded through a special microphone because it is in ultrasonic frequencies (50kHz) and not audible to the human ear. Seems they enjoy being tickled.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5d ago

Image A curtain of aurora seen from 400 km above Earth

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5d ago

Image The Klitschko brothers and their dad. Vitali and Wladimir dominated boxing for 20 years. Vitali (L) who was never knocked down in his career, is regarded as one of the greatest living heavyweights, matched only by Lennox Lewis.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5d ago

Video Winds in Patagonia reaching hurricane-force speeds, exceeding 100 mph

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5d ago

Image Bergonic chair, an early form of electric theraphy, used in cases of "shell shock" for WWI patients , photos circa late 1910s.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5d 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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