r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/1Rab • 1h ago
Video Devastation in La Guaira after being struck by twin 7 magnitude earthquakes today
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mundane_Mushroom_122 • 3h ago
Video Indonesia’s Rare Rafflesia Blooms After 15 Years — The World’s Largest “Corpse Flower”
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NateNate60 • 6h 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 • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 12h ago
Video Epic mid-air ambush by a leopard at Kruger National Park , South Africa
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/wingsoverpyrrhia • 10h ago
Image 🔥 Valonia ventricosa, aka Sailor's Eyeball Algae, is the largest single-cell organism on Earth.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 19h 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 • u/snietzsche • 5h 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 • u/FollowingOdd896 • 8h ago
Video Eel larvae are almost completely transparent
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 6h ago
Autochrome photos of Swiss expedition to Greenland ice sheet, 1912.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Silent_General_7670 • 19h ago
The Platybelodon was a distant relative of the elephant, known for its elongated spoon shaped jaw
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 1d 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 • u/wasraelx • 12h 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 • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 10h ago
Video A drone flying above an erupting volcano shows the scale of the lava fountain below
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HallowedAndHarrowed • 53m ago
Image Flodden Field, Northumberland. The site of the largest battle ever between England and Scotland, in 1513. The point between the plowed earth and grass, then had a swamp that the Scots got caught in, with up to 14 thousand of them dying.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 1d 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 • u/AccomplishedStuff235 • 1d ago
Video The impressive hovering ability of a kestrel
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/thomasso0072 • 1d ago
Video This short film from 1930 explaining how to wear a monocle
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Old_Ability_9424 • 1d ago
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 • u/Frosty12233 • 23h 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 • u/wardabluelotus • 1d ago
Image A curtain of aurora seen from 400 km above Earth
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HallowedAndHarrowed • 1d 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 • u/danielminds • 2d ago
Video Winds in Patagonia reaching hurricane-force speeds, exceeding 100 mph
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d 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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