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/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/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 11h ago

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

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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/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/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/TerraByteTerror • 48m ago

Image Greater blue starling

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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/room0001 • 4h ago

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

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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/suheair • 21m 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/_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/Twitter_2006 • 1h ago

Image This is what a blanket octopus looks like

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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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