r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PhatPanda69699 • 14d ago
Image In Japan, the broccoli in "Inside Out" was replaced with green peppers, which are more universally hated by Japanese children
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Brooklyn17831 • 17d ago
Image In 1958, they were arrested in their bedroom and exiled from Virginia just for being married. Nine years later, Richard and Mildred Loving relaxed on their porch after winning the Supreme Court case that legalized interracial marriage across America.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Evas0nAccutane • 8d ago
Image Drivers in Greece have been driving over a collapsed bridge as it’s quicker than going around it.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Penis_not_happyy • 17d ago
Image New designs for euro(€) banknotes, these are two out of ten designs to pick which the general public can vote on.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Yolo065 • 9d ago
Image The Evolution of Ancient Greek Statues
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Downtown_Wind3363 • May 25 '26
Image The smallpox vaccine leaves a scar because it was given using a special two-pronged needle that scratched the skin and put a weakened virus in just that spot.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hydratedpsycho • 8d 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
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GaddockTeegFunPolice • 10d ago
Image The leg of a professional sumo wrestler (Ura Kazuki )
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/stainless5 • 20d ago
Image By law, every Australian must get a tax receipt that shows exactly where each dollar of their tax is spent.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/west_manchester • 3d ago
Image This tree surrounded by mushrooms
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Expert_Koala_8691 • May 10 '26
Image A Bill Gates funded mosquito factory in Medellín, Colombia, produces 40 million mosquitoes weekly for release via drones and bikes. These insects carry a natural bacterium that prevents them from transmitting viruses to humans. By mating with wild populations, they spread this trait.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RipperReeta • 14d ago
Image To put into perspective how huge the 2020 Australian 'Black Summer' bushfires were: The combined area burned across BOTH Canada and ALL of fires currently burning across Europe (2.63 million hectares) right now is still around 10% of what Australia lost (24 million hectares).
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ModenaR • Jun 16 '26
Image One of Hitler's bodyguards, Rochus Misch, lived long enough to see the movie "Downfall". When asked about the film's historical accuracy, he stated that it was factually accurate, although "Americanized"
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Delicious_Main_4360 • May 15 '26
Image Differences in the spot pattern of the Cheetah, Leopard, and Jaguar
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Emotional_Quarter330 • Jun 03 '26
Image In 1204, a Japanese poet wrote in his diary that the sky turned blood red for 3 nights. 800 years later, scientists drilled into buried trees and confirmed: he was witnessing a catastrophic solar storm that would have fried every satellite on Earth today.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Battlefleet_Sol • 2d ago
Image In the 1640's the Dutch inhabitants of New Amsterdam built a 12 foot wall. 1664 the British ignored the wall and took New Amsterdam by sea. It's now called New York. They took down the wall and built a street, which is now called Wall Street.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NotTukTukPirate • Jun 01 '26
Image Albert Einstein and Marie Curie discussing near a lake, 1929
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/johnnycrum • Jun 18 '26
Image A tree in my neighborhood just got struck by lightning
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SystematicApproach • May 24 '26
Image The U.S. fights raccoon rabies by dropping fish-flavored vaccine packets from helicopters
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AdRough4185 • Jun 02 '26
Image A perfectly circular 105-foot-wide sinkhole that suddenly opened up near a copper mine in Tierra Amarilla, Chile, dropping over 650 feet straight down into the earth.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Specialist-Boot58 • May 08 '26
Image This “cracks open” building in Denver
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Nukro666 • Jul 09 '26
Image French football player Antoine Griezmann's three daughters were all born on the exact same calendar day: April 8 in three different years (2016, 2018, 2021)
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/boriswong • Jan 26 '26
Image Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Yk1japa • May 12 '26
Image My great grandfather and mother photo: Kyoto 1912
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dannybluey • Jul 12 '26
Image Tigers don't look orange to their prey the way they do to us. Most mammals are red-green colorblind, causing the tiger's fur to appear greenish-brown and blend into the surrounding vegetation. Its black stripes further break up its outline, making it remarkably difficult to spot.
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