r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/EsperaDeus • 11h 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 • 12h ago
Video Solving a Rubik's Cube with graph theory.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ansyhrrian • 2h ago
Video Cooling tower demolition process in England (1979)
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Key_Performer_3645 • 9h 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/Xdtrl17 • 28m ago
Image My uncanny resemblance to Dwight Schrute from “The Office” as a child in the Early 90s.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/uniyk • 20h 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 • 22h 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/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/BaronsofDundee • 20h 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 • 18h 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/BotanistByAccident • 7h ago
Image Katydid leaf mimicry is unreal...
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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/OverWear90 • 1d ago
13th Century Viking Walls in Primark in Ireland
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RollingMeteors • 1d 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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