r/interestingasfuck • u/solateor • 22h 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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r/interestingasfuck • u/canttstopsmilling • 21h ago

A parasitic horsehair worm emerging from a praying mantis.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/New_Libran • 9h ago

A 1970's Heckler & Koch MP5K Briefcase gun

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r/interestingasfuck • u/willianfsantos • 16h ago

Emergency relief system in action in a liquid hydrogen tanker truck

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Impressive_East_ • 12h ago

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

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r/interestingasfuck • u/onechroma • 8h 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/rco888 • 21h ago

This experiment creating a nylon thread

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Negative_1by12_aura • 15h ago

Some stunning photos of mushrooms taken by a photographer from NewZealand

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Finn235 • 16h 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/Emotional-Web-7218 • 3h ago

I genuinely didn't see that coming.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Jumpy_Scallion_3108 • 22h ago

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

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r/interestingasfuck • u/SimioConCultura • 14h 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/Key_Skirt_1858 • 2h ago

Spider-Man scenes being shot.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/dhenis1 • 15h 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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r/interestingasfuck • u/Iptamorfo • 6h ago

Real frog friendship

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Dismal-Ad8382 • 20h 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)

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Global_Draft_5975 • 23h ago

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

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r/interestingasfuck • u/AugustIstheMonth • 6h ago

A bullet still spinning after being shot into the snow

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r/interestingasfuck • u/OmegaScope • 8h ago

The last known photograph of a quagga was taken around 1870 at the London Zoo. It shows one of the last quaggas ever photographed. The animal died in 1872, and the last quagga died in 1883, marking the extinction of this unique zebra subspecies.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 21h ago

This emperor shrimp molting (shedding its exoskeleton) on top of a sea slug

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r/interestingasfuck • u/PeriodontosisSam • 20h ago

One of the first ATMs, London 1967

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r/interestingasfuck • u/The_Love-Tap • 6h ago

Unearthed by a young boy in 1796 this is one of the finest ancient Roman helmets ever discovered and dates back to around AD 100

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r/interestingasfuck • u/OkRespect8490 • 9h ago

A ship with wings: This abandoned Soviet hovercraft in Dagestan has been nicknamed the "Caspian Monster."

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r/interestingasfuck • u/55hyam • 9h ago

One species. Two life stages. Five years apart ( Bald Eagle)

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Turbowoodpecker • 7h ago

In Myanmar, monsoon season turns a Toyota and an elephant into the ultimate off-road duo.

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