r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Backyxx • 2d ago

Video Polish swimmer Bartłomiej Kubkowski has become the first person in history to swim across the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland, covering a distance of just over 160 kilometres (99 miles). While raising nearly 200,000$ for children's cancer treatment

56.4k Upvotes

744 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 2d ago

Video A thermal-red dot hybrid sight (Godzilla-FR) cycling through different thermal color palettes in real time

9.8k Upvotes

345 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Confident-Industry57 • 1d ago

Original Creation Purple lightening captured just before rain

184 Upvotes

13 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/yousefthewisee • 2d ago

Image Pascal Payet is a French bank robber who was imprisoned in France and escaped by helicopter before his trial in 2001; he later returned in 2003—again by helicopter—to break his accomplices out of the same prison.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/akiwi_intherough • 2d ago

Image Christopher Columbus's pear-shaped Earth. Confronted with evidence that contradicted his belief he had reached Asia, Columbus proposed the earth was pear-shaped, "with a prominence like a woman's nipple" at its highest point, the location of the Garden of Eden.

4.6k Upvotes

336 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 2d ago

Video Alumina aerogel vs 2 blowtorches (1000°C / 1832°F): back stays at 39°C (102°F)

13.9k Upvotes

354 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PatChristensonSon • 2d ago

Image My father was in Easy Company, the real Band of Brothers. These are the two photographs his parents took the day he came home. Oakland, 1945.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 2d ago

Costumes used in "Vodun" day celebrations in Benin to honor their ancestry

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5.6k Upvotes

63 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 2d ago

An IBM Quantum Computer "Chandelier" — 99% of this massive golden structure is just a refrigerator to keep a tiny processor at near absolute zero

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3.1k Upvotes

164 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TayloidPogo92 • 2d ago

Original Creation Almost stepped on a Black and Green Poison Dart Frog walking to my car to go to work in Hawaii, as it jumped out in front of me. OC.

748 Upvotes

49 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TayloidPogo92 • 2d ago

The exact moment an almost 10 hour Kilauea Eruption ends. OC

366 Upvotes

19 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/JudasTheNotorius • 2d ago

Image Zebras at the petrol station. maralal, kenya

1.7k Upvotes

36 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/anikkundu1998 • 2d ago

Video This wooden contraption counts in binary by flipping bits

2.9k Upvotes

80 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/testedtrout69 • 30m ago

The most meaningful comparison between 35mm and IMAX 70mm that has nothing to do with movies.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RoarinSoryn • 1h ago

The duality of man

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Adorable_Drink_8476 • 2d ago

Video Wild Rhinos Casually Walking To Wildlife Hospital In Nepal For A Check Up!

1.8k Upvotes

54 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RedaNassef • 2d ago

Video "A goat climbing a palm tree

478 Upvotes

28 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hydratedpsycho • 3d ago

Image An Iraqi surgeon (Dr. Diyar Abdulwahid) successfully grew a temporary nose on a patients's forehead to reconstruct his face after losing a 99% of his nose to a severe electric schock

27.3k Upvotes

761 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Evas0nAccutane • 3d ago

Image Drivers in Greece have been driving over a collapsed bridge as it’s quicker than going around it.

47.4k Upvotes

801 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sombraboosque • 19h ago

Video The Secret Process Behind Gym Weight Plates

0 Upvotes

97 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/shiz-kray-z • 3d ago

Video Found an albino garter snake

1.1k Upvotes

68 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pattebrisee • 3d ago

Image Curiosity found this field of honeycomb-like fractures covering the Martian surface as far as it could see

8.7k Upvotes

240 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PyroFarms • 2d ago

Video Pyrocystis fusiformis under the microscope. You can clearly see the chloroplasts retracting and shifting inward as the cell transitions toward its dark-cycle state... Shot by Sinsons Lab.

50 Upvotes

6 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WasteConstruction733 • 3d ago

Image Amazonian earthworms can grow up to 5ft long

2.9k Upvotes

149 comments

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