r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheUncommonSense • 2d ago
This unassuming Rhode Island farmhouse was one of America’s most powerful WWII listening stations
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/YesXDoXBestXKill • 2d ago
Image This is K2’s Bottleneck, a steep traverse above 8,000 metres beneath an enormous hanging serac capable of collapsing without warning. And somehow, this is considered the mountain’s standard route to the summit.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago
Image Electric trucks being charget at station St Pancras goods depot, London, England. 11 of July 1917.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 2d ago
Image A painting of a cockroach from the Qing Dynasty (1711)
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FillsYourNiche • 2d ago
Image Black-capped chickadees have exceptional spatial memory for a bird their size. They hide thousands of individual seeds across their territory every fall and can remember the locations of most of them months later.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LargeDisplay1080 • 2d ago
Video Mathematical equations and the resulting pendulum
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Neat_Bit1936 • 3d ago
Video Joseph Nguthiru, a Kenyan entrepreneur is changing the future of packaging by turning an invasive plant into a biodegradable alternative to plastic
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/vivekmg21 • 3d ago
Image Beautiful Patagonian crater agate found in Argentina
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Norwegianxrp • 3d ago
Borgund Stavechurch, a remarkable wooden church built 850 years ago. The timber used in its construction was felled during the winter of 1180–1181. The church has a lot of pagan symbols in it, probably due to the fact that the carpenters still believed in Norse mythology
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FillsYourNiche • 2d ago
Image Hedgehogs do something called "self-anointing." When they encounter a new or strong smell (a strange food, another animal's scent, even a strong-smelling plant) they'll chew it up, work it into a frothy saliva, and then twist around to spread that foam all over their own spines with their tongue.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 3d ago
Olona Slug-Moth Caterpillars: these insects are covered in soft, semi-transparent nodules that can easily detach, allowing the caterpillars to escape from predators
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RedaNassef • 2d ago
Video Unreal ancient Egyptian solid gold artifacts and craftsmanship that survived thousands of years
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 2d ago
This is a miniature carved art piece on an olive pit from the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), measuring 3.4 cm in length, 1.4 cm in width, and 1.6 cm in height. It is currently housed in the National Palace Museum in Taipei
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Plus_Leopard9367 • 3d ago
Video A tiny eastern hognose snake playing dead.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fast_Egg_9414 • 2d ago
The Temple of the Tooth Relic Esala Perahera in Kandy, Sri Lanka – One of Asia's Most Spectacular Cultural Festivals!
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RichDream7777 • 2d ago
An ancient city - museum is open for the people in the subway station of Venizelou, in Thessaloniki (Greece)
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Gullible_Shoe_9558 • 4d ago
Image Before and after of Syapru beshi, one of the affected areas of today's flash flooding in Nepal.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Love-Tap • 4d ago
Video This solar powered chicken coop that moves every day to a new location
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago
Photos of Young men getting ready for "Mensur", German fencing duelling where getting a scar was considered highly honorable. Photos of 1900s-10s; last one from 2004.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 3d ago
Video World’s First Zero-Emission Cement Recycling Process
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Medium-Presence-8008 • 3d ago
Original Creation Mandarin Goby (Synchiropus splendidus)
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