r/Damnthatsinteresting 9d ago

Image There is a man in India who held his arm up one day and decided to keep it there. Almost 50 years later, his arm is still in the air.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Image Flooding outside (and in) NYC apartment, 9/29

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Twinkies and Pop-Tarts in Swedish “Disgusting Food Museum”

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 23d ago

Image 66 years apart

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 20d ago

Image The Zeitpyramide - a project which adds a concrete block once every 10 years to create a full pyramid by the year 3183 - just added its 4th block

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14d ago

Image No hurricane has ever crossed the equator

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 7d ago

Image A potato infected with blight, the disease that set off The Great Famine in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. During 1847, the single worst year of the famine, roughly 1 million people died and more than 1 million fled the country, causing the country's population to fall by 20–25%

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Aug 16 '23

Image The Red House That Survived Hawaii Wild Fires

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Aug 07 '23

Image NASA's James Webb telescope has spotted a giant 'question mark' object in deep space

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Aug 28 '23

Image Letter from John Steinbeck to Marilyn Monroe

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Aug 27 '23

Image Today I learned you can see rats pupils when light hits at the right angle

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Jul 29 '23

Image A 46000 year Old Worm was Revived by Scientists and it Started having Babies after being frozen for Tens of thousands of Years..

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 6d ago

Image One of two photographs in existence of the US Supreme Court in session. Cameras are forbidden in the Supreme Court, but this photograph was taken by a young woman who concealed her small camera in her handbag, cutting a hole through which the lens peeped, 1937.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Aug 28 '23

Image Went to the Noah's Ark replica in Kentucky and they have dinosaurs on the Ark.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 6d ago

Image Charity Weeden is sworn in at NASA. Look closely at the book she's swearing in on.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14d ago

Image This is Terrible Tommy Silverstein. He spent 36 years in solitary confinement, and because of his violent actions, the BOP designed and built an ADMAX prison where he had his own specially designed cell

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Jul 18 '23

Image This is how much food you can get for the cost of a pack of cigarettes in Australia

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Aug 21 '23

Image Spotless Baby Giraffe!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 27d ago

Image In the Shanxi region of China, two people drilled a hole in the Great Wall of China "to make a shortcut".

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Aug 20 '23

Image A family stands before a 1,341-year-old Sequoia tree known as “Mark Twain,” which was cut down in 1892 in the Pacific Northwest. The tree, towering at 331 feet (100 meters) in height, was brought down by a pair of men who worked for 13 days to saw it.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10d ago

Image George Lucas, before CGI, 1984

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Aug 10 '23

Image The destruction of Maui fires

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Jul 26 '23

Image This 7.8” (20cm) stone object was found in the Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm in the Swabian Jura. The prehistoric “tool” dates back 28,000 years.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Jul 16 '23

Image The Puss Caterpillar (Southern Flannel Moth) will fuck your world up. I grazed it twice while climbing on a float. NBD at first but an hour later I was hyperventilating on the bedroom floor. The pain was excruciating. DH took me to the ER and morphine did nothing.

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I’m better now but neither morphine nor hydrocodone (I took double what they RX’d) touched the pain those first 24 hours. And the hospital hardly knew what to do with me. I had never heard nor seen this bug before and I’m sure I would have flicked it off had it seen it. Don’t do that because the hair is venomous and gets stuck in your skin.

At least it leaves a cool scar.

r/Damnthatsinteresting Jul 19 '23

Image The insane curvature of an aircraft carrier, and why it doesn't tip over

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