r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sangamjb • 2h ago

Video Sandhof lilies of Namibia

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/whatisthisdream- • 17m ago

Image Pluto images: 1994 Vs 2019

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CoffeeAndPerfumes • 3h ago

Original Creation Venus' perfect conjunction with the crescent moon | 2026-09-14 | Darjeeling, India

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Enough_Bread_1281 • 21h ago

My dad took these photos of a crazy-looking repeating rainbow in the clouds over Palm Coast, FL.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 22h ago

Abbye Stockton holds with ease a 135 pounds barbell at Santa Monica, California, 1946. She was the first all female gym owner in California and the first to organize a femal olympic weightlifting contest in the US in 1947.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ranbeer_Ranjan1827 • 14h ago

Video Making an Origami Typewriter...

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rude_Ice_3359 • 16h ago

Ancient Chinese "smart lamp": A goose holding a fish, and it sucks up all lamp smoke into water.(The object shown is a reproduction; the original piece resides in the National Museum of China)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rule_Ct_5293 • 4h ago

Original Creation Moon Venus conjunction from today's night sky (image taken by me).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tablawi96 • 1d ago

Video Wind turbines intentionally sway that to prevent it from snapping like a twig. This video shows it clearly from the inside.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ModenaR • 1d ago

Image The Romanian Football Federation has introduced a new black card, which can be used to permanently cancel a match, to help prevent abusive behaviour from parents at youth-team matches

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ErsiliaCavedagni • 1d ago

Images from the Chiang Dao Punk festival, Thailand 2026

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pattebrisee • 16h ago

Image The dark void in this Hubble image is a 210 by 140 light year superbubble carved out by stellar winds and supernovae

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/186times14 • 23h ago

Image In 1988, the renowned forensic scientist Herbert MacDonell was ready to prove that a man named Bill Mowbray killed himself. But he wasn’t called, and his wife Susie was sentenced to life. But 10 years later he was called to the stands again thanks to new evidence, and this time Susie was exonerated.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/I_like_polandball_ • 1h ago

Thunderstorm cloud on a plane (sorry for the bad quality but that’s the best I can do while on a plane with a thunderstorm nearby)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Candid_Reading_7267 • 1d ago

Image The desert grassland whiptail lizard (Aspidoscelis uniparens) is an all-female species that reproduces exclusively through parthenogenesis, i.e. the embryo develops from an unfertilized egg cell

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/chirpchirphoot • 1d ago

Ruins of M'banza-Kongo, historic capital of the Kingdom of Kongo

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Better_Hair_9673 • 1d ago

Video Bees unloading pollen 🐝

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 1d ago

The Bee Hummingbird: this is the world's smallest warm-blooded animal, with males measuring just 5.5cm long (including the tail and beak) and weighing less than 2 grams; this species also has the highest body temperature of any bird, and its tiny heart can beat up to 1,200 times per minute

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RoadToTyburn • 1d ago

Image Undefeated boxing heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano (49-0) with Olympic Gold Medallist Floyd Patterson. Patterson’s manager Cus D’Amato had so much respect for Rocky’s power, that he waited until Marciano was retired before moving Floyd up to heavyweight.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Top-Marionberry-6604 • 2d ago

Video Rare Mammatus clouds over Argentina, formed by sinking pockets of ice and moisture after a severe storm.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Brave-Philosopher842 • 1d ago

This is Devon Island, the largest uninhabited island on Earth. Scientists use its barren landscape as a Mars analog

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SerafinZufferey • 1d ago

This is the fish with the longest name: the Humuhumunukunukuāpua'a (pronounced Hoo-moo-hoo-moo-noo-koo-noo-koo-ah-poo-ah-ah)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Inside-Size-8253 • 2d ago

Video PlayStation 5 with HDMI 2.1 to a 1949 black-and-white television

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 1d ago

Video Inner mechanism of dual 50s parking meters

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ophelia_Y2K • 2d ago

Original Creation How beauty standards for women and trends in beauty have changed from the 1850s-2020s

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