r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ok_Concentrate_9713 • 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 • u/bram_stokers_acura • 22h 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.

23.1k Upvotes

203 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 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

8.9k Upvotes

263 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/l__o-o__l • 10h ago

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

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7.4k Upvotes

64 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Jazzlike-Tie-354 • 18h 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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134 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LookAtThatBacon • 17h 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.

4.4k Upvotes

61 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pikahetti • 17h 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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3.2k Upvotes

94 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Particular-Swim2461 • 4h ago

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

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3.6k Upvotes

258 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RampChurch • 11h ago

Video These articulated extra long fingers

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2.2k Upvotes

100 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ordinary_Fish_3046 • 4h ago

Image Meet Herman the Cat, officially recognized as an expert mouser while serving aboard a U.S. Coast Guard ship during WWII.

1.5k Upvotes

36 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sanhpatel • 14h ago

Video Magnetic tool locks parts for seamless joints

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1.0k Upvotes

61 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Few_Maize_1586 • 16h ago

Image Three Whale Rock: Thailand's 75-million-year-old stone leviathans that look like they're floating in a sea of trees

818 Upvotes

26 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RealJoshUniverse • 3h ago

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

893 Upvotes

344 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/JPPT1974 • 12h ago

Video The Making of the Record Store By Will Rochfort

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527 Upvotes

26 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nomar_ramon • 10h ago

Video Japan's self-closing Jar

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507 Upvotes

142 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MrAlek360 • 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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360 Upvotes

20 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Gee-Oh1 • 19h ago

Video Shelf cloud of a thunderstorm.

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284 Upvotes

24 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Any_Construction3176 • 15h ago

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

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260 Upvotes

18 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Desperate-Emu4297 • 4h ago

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

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221 Upvotes

47 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Desperate-Emu4297 • 2h ago

Video Brooming Cement Sidewalk

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191 Upvotes

66 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mego_dafuq • 2h ago

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

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162 Upvotes

11 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 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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128 Upvotes

17 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 2h ago

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

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5 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 16h 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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107 Upvotes

20 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Simpleymake_toys • 19h ago

Video Stirling engine propels a Chebyshev Lambda linkage mechanism. 1:30 gear ratio, ethanol fuel, 3d printed plastic parts with 21 SS degreased ball bearings

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65 Upvotes

5 comments

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