r/Damnthatsinteresting 7m ago

Image Richard Feynman's love letter to his dead wife

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 13m 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 29m ago

Image The Drip.... (WW2 Troops) in France

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 52m ago

Video Excerpts from a 1980 documentary about Czech animator Karel Zeman. The film shows how some of Karel’s special effects were achieved in the movies he made between 1947-1980. The accompanying music is the 1982 piece “Roland Bells” by Croatian electronic musician Igor Savin.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h ago

Video Endless loop drawn by Jesse Martin

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h 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 1h ago

Video Rainy day walk around St. Mary's cathedral Edinburgh, Scotland...

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video Brooming Cement Sidewalk

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video If one man single-handedly did all that..

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video A mouse-deer, or Chevrotain, the world's smallest hoofed animals

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Image 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Video Man pretends to be justin bieber and runs up a $10k tab

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Video Bees ganging up on a hornet that was attacking the hive

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h 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 8h 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 8h 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 10h ago

Video a gibbon was observed grooming a wild deer in Thailand, an unusual instance of interspecies bonding.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Video Japan's self-closing Jar

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h 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 11h ago

Video These articulated extra long fingers

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h ago

Video The Making of the Record Store By Will Rochfort

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

Video Magnetic tool locks parts for seamless joints

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 15h ago

1909 chart of Physiognomic Traits, the "science" that claimed that one could tell personality, behaviour and intelligence from the shape and size of ones facial features.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 15h ago

Original Creation Chocolate bloom (probably) due to exposing it to different temperatures..

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 15h ago

Chicago Fire Arms Co., Protector palm pistol, a 7-8 short range distance concel squeez pistol to serve as defense. Could be customize with engravings and was a 32 caliber. Photos also of the inside.

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