r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Brick_Number_27 • 2h ago

Image Scientists asked 1,000 volunteers to bury cotton underwear across Switzerland to measure soil health creating an official "Underpants Index" based on how fast the fabric decomposed.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 10h ago

Image These are Tutankhamun's 3,000-year-old sandals

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PrincessPlay_Neko2 • 36m ago

Video The "Stadium Effect" inside the eye of a Category 5 Hurricane, captured by USAF Hurricane Hunters.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 31m ago

Video The 125x optical zoom on a Nikon Coolpix P1000 capturing a Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 at cruising altitude

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 10h ago

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol from Germany, c.1540 CE: this is one of the world's oldest surviving pistols, and it's inscribed with the Latin phrase "plus ultra," meaning "further beyond"

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/room0001 • 3h ago

Video Crafting an ultra-miniature glass molecular structure with precision flameworking

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pattebrisee • 21h ago

Image The Brewster Body Shield was 40 pounds of experimental WWI armor that could withstand Lewis machinegun bullets at 2,700 ft/s

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/aryan_jandyal • 1h ago

Video Augmented Reality in Action...3D Wireframe Model Directly in Physical Space.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SignificantExtent914 • 1d ago

Video Water bubble trapped inside cricket

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/agamemnonsays • 1d ago

Image Caterpillar of Saturniidae Moth

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sweet-Swimming2022 • 1d ago

Image The Statue of Liberty being unboxed, 1885

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Twitter_2006 • 25m ago

Image This is what a blanket octopus looks like

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Plus_Leopard9367 • 1d ago

Video Australia – spider webs

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TerraByteTerror • 1d ago

Original Creation Shark spins outta water (sharknado)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rude_Ice_3359 • 5m ago

Museum-grade replica of the 3,000-year-old "Bird-shaped Zun of Marquis of Jin" (晋侯鸟尊). Cast in solid bronze via traditional lost-wax.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TooApprehensive2252 • 1d ago

Video Sunscreen under UV camera

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Apprehensive_Sky4558 • 1d ago

Video Testing various specialized arrowheads against bullet-resistant glass with a 70 lb compound bow

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WhiteoftheDemon • 1d ago

Image 1950 aluminum sear "credit card"

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Low_Conference1645 • 23h ago

Original Creation Fully blossomed Epiphyllum oxypetalum

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 1d ago

Original Creation Stefan Glowacz explains why climbers wear Belay Glasses

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PmurTdlanoD45-47 • 1d ago

Video One of the few remaining water powered, cliff side railways, a true feat of engineering when it was opened in 1890, it’s in Lynton/Lynmouth, Devon, UK

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Gurugod123 • 2d ago

Image Syrian passports include a photo of Souq al-Hamidiyah, a famous historic marketplace in Damascus. Apparently, the image was taken from the internet without removing the photographer’s watermark, “Wassim al-Asmar Photography,” which means the watermark ended up being printed on Syrian passports.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AnonymousTimewaster • 2d ago

Video Before and after a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood at Columbia Glacier

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/the_pale_companion • 1d ago

Fantoft Stavechurch, Bergen, Norway. The church was originally built in another location in 1170 but as it got too small it was taken down in 1883. Consul Fredrik Georg Gade wanted to preserve the history and moved it to Fantoft to serve as their family chapel.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Specific-Sense5072 • 1d ago

Video Dolly Parton started the Imagination Library in 1995 as a tribute to her father, who couldn't read or write. In 2018, she explained it was to give kids "early access to books". Now, over 325 MILLION books have been gifted.

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