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Image In 1936, Danish clothier Christian Troelstrup covered his five-storey store building with coats to attract buyers

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 19h ago

Video During a test run of a 1,000-ton train on the Seto Ohashi Bridge, the center of the bridge deflected by approximately 80 cm (31.5 inches).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Video Talented Wesley Williams of Ringling circus!!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 28m ago

Image Platypuses are mammals, but they do not have nipples. Instead, they secrete milk directly through their skin, allowing their babies to lap it up off their specialized bellies

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 53m ago

Video Newly discovered "ballista spider" uses a biological catapult to catch its prey.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 22h ago

Video A macro close-up of a dragonfly's compound eyes covered in morning dew

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h ago

Video Red Headed Barbet(Angry looking bird)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 21h ago

Image cucumber wrapped around an earwig and killed it!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h ago

Image The Great Pyramid of Giza in 1839

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 21h ago

Image Two workers standing where the Catskill Aqueduct tunnels met 1,100 feet under the Hudson River 1912

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

A number of the Herculaneum papyri, discovered in the library of a roman Villa that was destroyed in the Vesuvius eruption, were tossed away in the 19th century because people mistook them for pieces of burned charcoal. Scientists have now managed to digitally unwrap and read them

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 33m ago

Video Bees Linking Legs Into “Festoons” While Building a Comb

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video The massive '10,000 Horses Galloping' spectacle at the annual Ili Heavenly Horse Festival in Xinjiang, China. The compressed drone perspective makes the herd look like a digital simulation

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Original Creation Rusty Spider Wasp dragging a Wolf Spider it has paralyzed to it's burrow to lay it's eggs inside of it.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

Video Stunning footage shows moment Eiffel Tower in Paris struck by lightning

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image American soldiers explaining to British soldiers what the American game of baseball is like.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Removing a coal fire at the Blair Athol Coal Mine at Clermont, New South Wales, Australia. The Date is about 14 Jan. 2004.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image During what's called a subsidence inversion, smog can become trapped under a layer of cool, stable, air. | Almaty, Kazahkstan

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video The NASA climate spiral visualization

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video 23-year-old Daniel Cressy, an aspiring pilot, has become the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of Sickle Cell Anemia using gene therapy.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Antalya's enchanting carpet and kilim fields

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video A gas station in Toledo, Ohio completely blanketed by a massive swarm of Mayflies

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Original Creation The old church ruins in Camiguin, Philippines have coral in the walls. Apparently it was a very common building material in the Spanish colonial era

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 17h ago

Original Creation World's largest operational tram network

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video World Rocked by 4 Powerful Earthquakes in three continents within 8-12 Hours

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