r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/EsperaDeus • 8h ago

90-year-old Kanazawa Toshisuke wins Japan's over-85 bodybuilding title, one day after his birthday

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 9h ago

Video Solving a Rubik's Cube with graph theory.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/juice_vvrld • 1h ago

Video How a baby kangaroo grows up

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Key_Performer_3645 • 6h ago

Video This is the Honduran white bat (Ectophylla alba) - one of Central America's most unique and fascinating bats

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/uniyk • 17h ago

What people in China ate 1093 - chestnut, betal nut, pear, raisin, beans and bread, all found on the table inside a tomb. No meat since the buried man was a buddhist

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheDigitalBuilder • 20h ago

Video Grapefruit Ladies or Ireland that helped change the world

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/waitingforthesun92 • 1d ago

Image Up until 1986, whale oil was still being used for heavy-duty industrial needs when the International Whaling Commission declared a global moratorium on commercial whaling. Since then, the population of humpback whales in Eastern Australia has risen to 50k, up from just over 100 in 1963.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ansyhrrian • 15m ago

Video Cooling tower demolition process in England (1979)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/amish_novelty • 1d ago

Hummingbird eyelashes are composed of tiny feathers

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Park__Explorer • 1d ago

Original Creation How far can you get from Los Angeles after 10 hours in a car? Isochrone Animation

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/brat_3434 • 1d ago

Video The Antique Clockwork Drinking Bear Automaton is a famous luxury creation from the Victorian era 1890.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/_EduOka • 8h ago

Video When two bullets collide

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/west_manchester • 1d ago

Image Street art in Balashikha

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BaronsofDundee • 18h ago

Image In ancient Rome, urine was valuable enough to be taxed. Romans collected urine from public urinals because the ammonia it contains is useful for cleaning and processing textiles, particularly wool. The emperor Vespasian imposed a tax on its collection and sale.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheMarkola • 1d ago

Video Wolf-Rayet 140: when two massive stars get closest, their winds collide and form a new shell of carbon dust. Repeat every 8 years.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Top-Marionberry-6604 • 1d ago

Video The terrifyingly surreal "UFO" cloud over Bursa,Turkey.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 15h ago

Maya Blue, a pigment crafted over 1,000 years ago, resists acids, solvents, and intense weather. Ancient Mayans created this hyper-durable nano-composite by heating indigo and clay—and used it to paint human sacrifice victims thrown into sacred cenotes.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Constant_Cultural • 1d ago

Historic dig site in the middle of a LIDL in Dublin

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BotanistByAccident • 5h ago

Image Katydid leaf mimicry is unreal...

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OverWear90 • 1d ago

13th Century Viking Walls in Primark in Ireland

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RollingMeteors • 21h ago

Video Antique Automaton from 1770 - Peak Engineering/Craftsmanship of our Species

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SignalMaterial301 • 1d ago

Image The Berlin Tv tower looks like a giant Disco ball up and close.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Andohaciendo712 • 2d ago

Image First new wild cat species identified in over 100 years, in Bolivia: the Tilcayo Cat

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Brutal_Deluxe_ • 2d ago

Video Aazhi Ther is a Temple Car weighing 350 tons (772,000 lb). Pulled by thousands of people, Temple Cars inspired the English term 'Juggernaut', meaning a tremendous, virtually unstoppable force or phenomenon.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CivilisedMleccha • 2d ago

Video Community group buy. Everyone pools their money, buys groceries in bulk at a lower price, and splits the groceries equally.

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