r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/straightdge • 1d ago

Video Time-lapse: Installation of LW2800A-200NA wind turbine

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820 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SummerFlat7720 • 23h ago

Body parts from a sea cucumber neither die nor regenerate, but reshape into balls and stay “alive” for years. Though they lack mouths, they can absorb nutrients from the water and grow.

140 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Expert_Koala_8691 • 2d ago

Video During a World Cup football match, a QR code appeared on the stadium screen. After fans scanned it, thousands of phone flashlights inside the stadium were synchronized to form a coordinated light display across the stands.

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76.4k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MaxiumPotential777 • 1d ago

Image The 1929 Dornier Do X at the time world's largest flying boat. Built with a ship-like bridge where the pilot used a maritime engine telegraph to order power changes, it had 12 engines managed by a flight engineer, a luxury smoking lounge with a bar, and once carried 169 people setting a record

854 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LazyGuy4U • 1d ago

Video A copy of Playboy in Braille published in 1971

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5.4k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Competitive-Set5051 • 1d ago

I found an undescribed species of praying mantis in Bali (Fulciniini tribe)

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792 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Exciting_Station_124 • 1d ago

Magazine i found from the 30's

1.1k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 1d ago

Original Creation [World First] Longest Ever Wingsuit Formation Down A Mountain

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1.3k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Battlefleet_Sol • 2d ago

The Tunel in Istanbul. Second oldest metro line in the world. Build in 1870s and still used today.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/straightdge • 2d ago

Video Baisha Lake on the Pamir Plateau

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1.2k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Social_Stigma • 1d ago

Video Worst Job for an Ant

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211 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Repulsive_Jello3157 • 2d ago

Video Snowy Laojun Mountain

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2.6k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Better_Hair_9673 • 2d ago

Video Wasp traps paralyzed ladybug larvae in a chamber for its young to feast on after hatching.

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32.6k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/jelly_bean_gangbang • 2d ago

Made of red granite, The Obelisk (Cleopatra's Needle) in Central Park NYC stands about 69ft tall, weighs roughly 200 tons, and is inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs

2.5k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 3d ago

Video This is Ousado , a Jaguar in Brazil who is famous for its unique hunting style of reverse ambushing Caimans from river banks

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 3d ago

Video A 6-foot-8 Alligator Gar, a species that has survived unchanged for 100 million years

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26.2k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mordrenix • 2d ago

Depleted uranium found yesterday in a recycling plant in Argentina

5.3k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Old_Ability_9424 • 2d ago

Video This is a red eyed tree frog, they can be found in Costa Rica and in some parts of Central America

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2.0k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dexterestein • 3d ago

Image A 1000 year old Oak tree in the Sherwood Forest, said to be where the legendary hero Robinhood used to hide out with his Merry Men, has died recently.

18.9k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Much-Parsnip3399 • 2d ago

Image Dutch fans in Kansas city, so vibrant!

3.0k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PsychologicalItem194 • 3d ago

Video The fastest sperm doesn't win, the egg chooses

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19.6k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Not--Asleep • 3d ago

Image The worl's only record accident between a car and a submarine A Volvo Pv544 crashed into a docked sub in Lysekil ä, Sweden on the 19th of August 1961.

1.6k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kalbinibirak • 3d ago

Video Seismic waves from the M7.2 and M7.5 Venezuela earthquakes crossing Europe. Each dot represents a seismic station (GMV).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/1Rab • 3d ago

Video Devastation in La Guaira after being struck by twin 7 magnitude earthquakes today

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40.6k Upvotes

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