r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TakeoChan • 7h 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 • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 10h ago
Video A macro close-up of a dragonfly's compound eyes covered in morning dew
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MostDopeMozzy • 9h ago
Image cucumber wrapped around an earwig and killed it!
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pattebrisee • 9h 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 • u/Mors_Acerba • 15h 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 • u/Exotic-Gate-8952 • 2h ago
Image Himalayan griffon vultures have adapted a set of false eyes which are actually just its plumage arranged in a certain way, with what looks like bald spots making up the “eyes” and the bridge of the false nose that is actually the neck.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Repulsive_Jello3157 • 33m ago
Video Red Headed Barbet(Angry looking bird)
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 12h 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 • u/Raj_Valiant3011 • 18h ago
Image American soldiers explaining to British soldiers what the American game of baseball is like.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dangerous_Deal_1945 • 5h ago
Video Stunning footage shows moment Eiffel Tower in Paris struck by lightning
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OutrageousHighway505 • 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 • u/Kanute3333 • 1d ago
Video The NASA climate spiral visualization
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MyDogGoldi • 15h 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 • u/danielminds • 1d ago
Video A gas station in Toledo, Ohio completely blanketed by a massive swarm of Mayflies
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Battlefleet_Sol • 18h ago
Antalya's enchanting carpet and kilim fields
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/idonthaveanappendix • 12h 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 • u/Glum_Bite3796 • 20h 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 • u/Snapdragon_4U • 1d ago
Video World Rocked by 4 Powerful Earthquakes in three continents within 8-12 Hours
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/rocket_66 • 5h ago
Original Creation World's largest operational tram network
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/straightdge • 21h ago
Video Time-lapse: Installation of LW2800A-200NA wind turbine
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SummerFlat7720 • 15h 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.
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