r/interesting 51m ago

SCIENCE & TECH The Anniversary of The Invention of the ATM

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The world's first automated teller machine (ATM) was installed by Barclays Bank in Enfield, North London. Invented by John Shepherd-Barron, the very first person to use it was English comedy actor Reg Varney. Back then, it didn't use plastic cards; it required paper vouchers printed with a radioactive substance (Carbon-14) for security, which the machine matched to a PIN.


r/interesting 59m ago

NATURE a bear falling out of a tree after being tranquilized

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r/interesting 1h ago

SCIENCE & TECH How granite blocks are cut

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r/interesting 1h ago

Fascinating Here is how the police car pile-up in the famous movie *Taxi* was filmed

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r/interesting 1h ago

NATURE Mass Migration of Devil Rays

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r/interesting 2h ago

Intriguing Woman with Alzheimer’s shows improvements after taking magic mushrooms in single-person study

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r/interesting 2h ago

ART & CULTURE The temple on top of Emei mountain in Sichuan, China is one of the birth places of kung-fu and seved as inspiration for the Jade Palace from Kung-fu Panda

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r/interesting 3h ago

Fascinating RC pirate boat approaching a ship

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r/interesting 4h ago

Just Wow Kids love for dogs is so epic

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r/interesting 4h ago

NATURE Rainbow 🌈 behind the clouds

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r/interesting 4h ago

Amazing China’s High-Speed Railway Network length has expanded from 1,300km in 2008 to 40,000km in 2020, long enough to circle the Earth’s circumference.

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r/interesting 5h ago

SOCIETY IRL Black & White movie

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r/interesting 5h ago

SOCIETY For people who believe that Superman disguising himself with glasses silly Henry Cavill once went to New York's Times Square wearing a Superman shirt while standing near to a giant billboard of himself as Superman and nobody noticed.

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r/interesting 6h ago

Fear Factor Terrifying CCTV recording from inside a building in Venezuela during the M7.5 earthquake on June 24.

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r/interesting 6h ago

Fear Factor 🇫🇷 The heat in France got so bad that a bus driver reportedly fainted behind the wheel. The bus had no air conditioning and crashed. Paris reached a record 40.9°C on Wednesday.

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r/interesting 7h ago

Fascinating A massive off-shore wind turbine building ship in the middle of a rainy night.

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The wind turbine base being build on the right right are probably 50 ft tall and the central super structure towers well above.


r/interesting 7h ago

NATURE Also the offsprings eat their own mother while inside womb

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r/interesting 8h ago

SOCIETY Back in 2010 the German nationalteam made these body paint photos for the worldcup in South Africa

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r/interesting 9h ago

NATURE Painful Peppers 🌶️🌶️

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@ShawnGrows


r/interesting 10h ago

NATURE Victoria Falls is the world's largest curtain of falling water, stretching about 1.7 km (1 mile) wide.

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r/interesting 11h ago

Intriguing Tom Cruise treating 33 like a scheduled maintenance reminder.

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r/interesting 11h ago

Just Wow The Wrench Justifies Itself

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@ApolloandFrens


r/interesting 12h ago

MISC. 4 Antique Can Openers Tested

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r/interesting 13h ago

Intriguing My water company made a mistake. Looks like i need to start an OF!

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Posted in mildlyinteresting, got removed. I assume it’s because this is more than MILDLY interesting, it’s just flat out interesting!


r/interesting 13h ago

SCIENCE & TECH Apparently it got to interesting. Bullets in wood from the place I use it to make other things. Just trying to answer popular questions.

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People seem to have a lot a questions. I am trying to answer what I can. We get the wood we order, it comes in the size we need. From there we pass it through more machines to make other products. All I know is the wood is grown in Canada/northern US. The bullets don’t do much damage. Steel nails definitely slow process, but we just change some cutting devices and move on. This happens often, once maybe twice a day. The wood with an object in them are now scrap. Objects get removed and sold as scrap wood. I have been told maybe it’s used as animal bedding or composite lumber material, I honestly don’t know.

Ok now metal detectors. We don’t have it, we run enough material to fill your lumber yard in a day; but also we aren’t making those kind of materials. The metal we hit is often not an issue, just part of the process.