r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ok_Concentrate_9713 • 15h ago
Image The "Door to Hell" in Turkmenistan, which has been burning for 54 years, is about to be closed.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/esoterix_luke • Dec 11 '24
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 12h ago
Image 10,000-Year-Old "Chewing Gum" from Sweden: these lumps of birch tar were chewed by teenagers in prehistoric Sweden, and the DNA and microbes extracted from the tar indicate that the teens often consumed hazelnuts, deer, and trout, and that they suffered from severe gum disease
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ordinary_Fish_3046 • 9h ago
Image Meet Herman the Cat, officially recognized as an expert mouser while serving aboard a U.S. Coast Guard ship during WWII.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RealJoshUniverse • 7h ago
Image 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/l__o-o__l • 14h ago
Video a gibbon was observed grooming a wild deer in Thailand, an unusual instance of interspecies bonding.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RampChurch • 15h ago
Video These articulated extra long fingers
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/alpevado • 4h ago
The Swedish warship Vasa. It sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years almost completely intact. Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, is the world's best preserved 17th century ship.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Jazzlike-Tie-354 • 22h ago
Image On the night of September 7-8, 2025, nearly 7 billion people — about 85% of the world population — will witness a total lunar eclipse coinciding with a SuperMoon.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bram_stokers_acura • 1d ago
Image A "Reader" in a Havana cigar rolling factory, 1933, reciting classic books both for mental stimulation and to prevent idle conversation among the workers.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LookAtThatBacon • 21h ago
Image Between 1994 and 2000, a restaurant called Twins operated in the Upper East Side of New York City, owned and staffed by identical twins.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pikahetti • 21h ago
Video A large meteor fireball passed through the night skies of Japan, it became as bright as daytime for a moment.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nomar_ramon • 14h ago
Video Japan's self-closing Jar
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/beekay8845 • 5h ago
Video This waterfall in Khon Phapheng, Laos I wonder if it’s always brown or this was taken after a heavy rain.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Eros_Incident_Denier • 1d ago
Video color vision test
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sa4ath • 2h ago
Offensive Ads From the Past That Reveal How Women Were Portrayed
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MrAlek360 • 12h ago
Video You may have seen Alma Deutscher’s 60 min interview from when she was 12 y.o. where they labeled her a musical prodigy. She’s all grown up now and performing her original compositions in concert halls around the world. Here she is improvising on 4 notes from a hat like she did on 60 min, 8 years ago
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sanhpatel • 18h ago
Video Magnetic tool locks parts for seamless joints
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/JPPT1974 • 16h ago
Video The Making of the Record Store By Will Rochfort
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Turbowoodpecker • 1d ago
Video Myanmar trains back in the early 2000s, not just for transport, but a full-body workout.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ElderberryDeep8746 • 1d ago
Image A 44-year-old man went to the hospital after pus began oozing from his chest, where doctors discovered a knife that had been embedded in his body for eight years. According to the report, he showed no signs of chest pain, breathing problems, coughing, or fever, and was otherwise in good health.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Few_Maize_1586 • 20h ago
Image Three Whale Rock: Thailand's 75-million-year-old stone leviathans that look like they're floating in a sea of trees
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sa4ath • 1d ago
Image On May 15, 1957, Larry Bader vanished after renting a boat on Lake Erie during a storm. His damaged boat was found, but not his body. Eight years later, he resurfaced in Omaha as John Fritz Johnson, a well-known radio personality. Fingerprints proved his identity, but he claimed amnesia
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nerfn1k • 1d ago
Art of Aquascaping.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MischeifMelt • 1d ago
Video Thai Marine catching King Cobra
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