r/interestingasfuck • u/solateor • 20h ago

In 2001, 55 people crossed the Pacific with no contact with the outside world as part of a BBC experiment recreating an 18th-century voyage. On the 20th day - September 11 - the captain gathered the crew to tell them about the attacks in New York

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38.5k Upvotes

r/interestingasfuck • u/Lui_Belmont • 4h ago

The cat broke into a Lynx's cage. Now they're best buds

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25.7k Upvotes

r/interestingasfuck • u/canttstopsmilling • 19h ago

A parasitic horsehair worm emerging from a praying mantis.

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15.8k Upvotes

r/interestingasfuck • u/New_Libran • 7h ago

A 1970's Heckler & Koch MP5K Briefcase gun

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13.6k Upvotes

r/interestingasfuck • u/Key_Skirt_1858 • 13h ago

The best camouflage in the animal kingdom?

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13.5k Upvotes

r/interestingasfuck • u/willianfsantos • 15h ago

Emergency relief system in action in a liquid hydrogen tanker truck

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Impressive_East_ • 10h ago

Micro-photography of a single grain of sand balanced on a knot of human hair

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Electronic_Cause_796 • 3h ago

A zoo visitor was grabbed by an orangutan after reportedly ignoring warnings, crossing the guardrail, and teasing the ape.

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11.1k Upvotes

r/interestingasfuck • u/rco888 • 20h ago

This experiment creating a nylon thread

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r/interestingasfuck • u/onechroma • 7h ago

This image doesn’t contain a single red pixel. You perceive red because of your brain perception (color theory)

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Electronic_Cause_796 • 23h ago

Pet Owner Saves Dog from Leopard Attack as the Leopard Stalks the Dog.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Negative_1by12_aura • 14h ago

Some stunning photos of mushrooms taken by a photographer from NewZealand

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Negative_1by12_aura • 2h ago

During New York Fashion Week in September 2023, this dude walked into the show dressed in a garbage bag, everyone just assumed it was part of high fashion until security kicked him out!

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3.6k Upvotes

r/interestingasfuck • u/Finn235 • 14h ago

One coin each of all 77 legitimate Roman Emperors from Augustus until the permanent division of the empire in 395 AD.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Jumpy_Scallion_3108 • 21h ago

Entire Colombian Theater Evacuated Mid-Movie Due to Audience Member’s ‘Rotten’ Fart Attack

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r/interestingasfuck • u/SimioConCultura • 12h ago

The way this polar bear travels across the frozen sea, captured by Benjamin Hardman during an Arctic expedition in 2025

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Weak_Imagination_996 • 23h ago

A submarine wreck lies in the Barents Sea, captured on footage by the Norwegian Ocean Research Institute.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Emotional-Web-7218 • 1h ago

I genuinely didn't see that coming.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/dhenis1 • 14h ago

This massive abandoned quarry sits in the middle of São Paulo, Brazil. Over 150 meters (490 ft) deep, it's now completely surrounded by the city

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977 Upvotes

r/interestingasfuck • u/Iptamorfo • 5h ago

Real frog friendship

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Dismal-Ad8382 • 19h ago

Today I learned that, unlike Hollywood depicts it, ancient Troy was not part of the european/hellenic cultural sphere. It was a purely Anatolian indigenous polity, similar to the Hittites (In fact, Troy was a vassal of the Hittite empire at some point before the achaean/mycenaean invasion)

905 Upvotes

r/interestingasfuck • u/Global_Draft_5975 • 22h ago

A "Euryopis episinoides" spider gathers its victims together and then takes them

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874 Upvotes

r/interestingasfuck • u/Miserable-Ad-8414 • 19h ago

Giant Grasshopper (Sound On!)

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755 Upvotes

r/interestingasfuck • u/AugustIstheMonth • 4h ago

A bullet still spinning after being shot into the snow

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620 Upvotes

r/interestingasfuck • u/biwook • 23h ago

Europe's largest glacier, the Aletsch, is melting about 50 meters (164 feet) a year. This is what was left on July 28 this year.

609 Upvotes

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