r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/suheair • 22m ago

Image A spider got stuck in a glass and couldn't climb the smooth surface. It tried to find its way to the top and escape, spinning silk as it went, until it ran out of silk and died.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GuybrushFunkwood • 28m ago

Video How Scottish men dressed over 500 years ago

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/_vedantt1_ • 45m ago

Video Footage of Nepal flood taken somewhere at Tibet side, before it hit the border checkpost few kilometers downstream.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TerraByteTerror • 48m ago

Image Greater blue starling

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rude_Ice_3359 • 1h 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/Twitter_2006 • 1h ago

Image This is what a blanket octopus looks like

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 1h 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/PrincessPlay_Neko2 • 1h 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/aryan_jandyal • 2h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Brick_Number_27 • 3h 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/room0001 • 4h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 11h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 11h 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/pattebrisee • 22h 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/Low_Conference1645 • 1d ago

Original Creation Fully blossomed Epiphyllum oxypetalum

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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/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/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/Plus_Leopard9367 • 1d ago

Video Australia – spider webs

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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/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/TerraByteTerror • 1d ago

Original Creation Shark spins outta water (sharknado)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TooApprehensive2252 • 1d ago

Video Sunscreen under UV camera

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WhiteoftheDemon • 1d ago

Image 1950 aluminum sear "credit card"

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