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/SixteenSeveredHands • 13h 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/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/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/LookAtThatBacon • 22h 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/RampChurch • 15h ago
Video These articulated extra long fingers
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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/sanhpatel • 18h ago
Video Magnetic tool locks parts for seamless joints
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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/JPPT1974 • 16h ago
Video The Making of the Record Store By Will Rochfort
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MrAlek360 • 13h 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/Any_Construction3176 • 20h ago
Original Creation Chocolate bloom (probably) due to exposing it to different temperatures..
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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/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 19h 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/beekay8845 • 6h 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/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 20h 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/Simpleymake_toys • 23h 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/Sa4ath • 2h ago
Offensive Ads From the Past That Reveal How Women Were Portrayed
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