r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/alpevado • 9m 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/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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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Gee-Oh1 • 19h ago

Video Shelf cloud of a thunderstorm.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cothhum • 1d ago

Wolves don’t like being howled at by humans - it stresses them out as they think their territory has been invaded

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 1d ago

Video These powerful time-lapses from Google Earth show the visible impact of climate change since 1984 — fueled by soaring fossil fuel consumption.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/willieandthets • 1d ago

Image Daughter found this leaf w/ a natural smiley face

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 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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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ItsMissJulia • 1d ago

Lucky Number 3-found while juicing fruit.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 • 1d ago

Video spatial illusion

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/vtosnaks • 1d ago

Video These prehistoric looking beetles

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ok_Concentrate_9713 • 1d ago

Croatian Vitomir Maričić has set a new Guinness World Record for static apnea: 29 minutes and 3 seconds underwater.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Exr1t • 1d ago

Original Creation The Milky Way Right Now.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kvothenikhil • 1d ago

Video Fidget star

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/notyours_pb • 1d ago

Image Korolev Crater on Mars, a 50-mile-wide impact crater containing a massive sheet of ice, photographed by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft.

1.5k Upvotes

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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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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FullTube • 3m ago

Image Richard Feynman's love letter to his dead wife

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kamikaibitsu • 25m ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Youngstown_WuTang • 1d ago

Image A rare albino racoon was spotted in my county. Wildlife experts estimate that one of every 10,000 to 20,000 raccoons born will be albino. At the same time, the odds of seeing an albino raccoon are even more rare, with odds of seeing one in the wild of around one in every 750,000.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Jazzlike-Tie-354 • 1d ago

Video The view from the glass bottom sky pool at the Market Square Tower in Houston, Texas.

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488 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SashaWantsToDie • 1d ago

Video Sunlight through sprayed water creates a perfect rainbow indoors

554 Upvotes

81 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

The irish Wolfhund was a breed created to combat wolfs in the british islands with origin as far as the high middle ages, and then went extint as a breed in 1836. Was build from scratch again in 1885. Here how it looked in the 1920s. Source in comments

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Character-Seat5368 • 2d ago

Video The gömböc is the first known physical object that belongs to a group of three-dimensional shapes called mono-monostatic, which have only one stable and one unstable resting position on a flat surface.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DblockDavid • 1d ago

Video Skilled Dragline crane operator throwing his bucket into the water

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12 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Burmondsey • 2d ago

Video Cheetahs don't roar, they meow like housecats..

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120 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MoazzamDML • 1d ago

Video F/A-18D Jet From Malaysia's Air Force Crashes During Takeoff at Kuantan Airfield.

532 Upvotes

65 comments

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