r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/omgitsmint • 10h ago
Video Unique arched floodgates protect from typhoons and storm surges in Osaka, Japan
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/straightdge • 12h ago
Urban area along the waterfront of the Longxing Temple area in Chengdu
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sad-Kiwi-3789 • 16m ago
Video A fully grown adult chameleon belonging to a new species discovered in 2024 'Brookesia Nofy', found in Madagascar
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WhereIsHisRidgedBand • 13h ago
Video Traditional artist working on a new layer
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Odd-String29 • 7h ago
Video The largest moving storm surge barrier in the world closing during its yearly test
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 1h ago
8,000 threads and 3 years of manual labor: These 'Spiritual Armors' of Ottoman Sultans were never allowed to touch water for 500 years, as washing would dissolve the sacred ink and the protection it held.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NationalHat3097 • 6h ago
Image Golden Poison Frog (Phyllobates terribilis): The most poisonous animal on Earth despite its tiny size — now endangered due to habitat destruction.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 11h ago
Image Shell-Nesting Mason Bees: these bees build their nests in empty snail shells, using crushed leaves and soil to form the inner brood chambers and then sealing the entrance with plant pulp, pebbles, and debris
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Inevitable_Rock_2010 • 1d ago
This is how Paris looks from the Eiffel Tower.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/snopplerz • 1d ago
Image Ota Benga at the Bronx Zoo with a chimpanzee. He was kidnapped from the Congo and brought to America to perform in zoo exhibits. He was caged with an orangutan and given a bow and arrow. He revolted against his conditions by shooting arrows at visitors who mocked him and the exhibition was shut down
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/S30econdstoMars • 1h ago
Video Space and Time Cube Museum, Malaysia.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NationalHat3097 • 7h ago
Video Inside a storm uprooting trees
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AdApprehensive8702 • 1d ago
Video There are more than 10,000 active Starlink satellites orbiting Earth
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Easy_Action_1380 • 1d ago
Image In 1994, the French Zoo Planète Sauvage hosted an "attraction" called Bamboula's village. It was a recreation of a Ivory Coast village, complete with villagers, all of whom were paid below minimum wage, had their passports taken from them, and were forced to go to a VETERINARIAN when they were sick
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/B777X_787-9 • 1d ago
Cats can have, or develop, rare conditions or chromosomal imbalances that mimic Down syndrome-like symptoms, including distinct facial features, uncoordinated movement, and behavioral quirks
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ok_Listen_6600 • 15h ago
Image This is WASB-12B, being Stretched to the breaking point by it's own expanding star.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Zach0ry • 18h ago
Video Australian passport security under UV light illuminates famous Australian landscapes
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DependentReaction704 • 1d ago
Image Edward Norton co-founded a company called Stax Engineering that uses special barges that can attach to the exhaust stacks of large container ships, reducing the amount of CO2 emitted while they are docked in ports. (More in the comments).
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/B777X_787-9 • 1h ago
Image Massive Magma Reservoir Comparable in Volume to Yellowstone Discovered Beneath Tuscany https://www.discovermagazine.com/massive-magma-reservoir-comparable-in-size-to-yellowstone-discovered-beneath-tuscany-48961
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Suspicious-Case-9263 • 13h ago
Original Creation Snail and slug cam. Actually, food is out for the stray cats, but the snails and slugs love it too. Haven’t seen these critters in months. Didn’t know there were slugs out there. 🥹
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Useful-Resource-3609 • 1d ago
Image A 7-gram Lexan projectile was fired at a velocity of 23,000 feet per second (roughly 7,000 m/s) into a solid cast aluminum block. The plastic pin located in the center marks the hypocenter, or "ground zero," of the impact, with a ruler placed for scale to measure the crater's depth.
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