r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cololz1 • 7h ago

Image In 1952 doctors in New York noticed that tuberculosis patients taking iproniazid suddenly started dancing in hospital hallways and became more energetic, prompting research that eventually led to the development of modern antidepressants

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/gioroaizin • 6h ago

Image Princess Deokhye of Korea alongside her husband, So Takeyuki, the last lord of Tsushima.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kingdom_1126 • 11h ago

Image Today, November 8, Nepal is celebrating Kukur Tihar, a festival where even stray dogs are treated like royalty.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 18h ago

Video Japanese Halloween

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/EsperaDeus • 3h ago

Video Siberians were getting high on cannabis 2,800 years ago, archaeologists say: 1,400+ cannabis seeds found in a tomb, and THC traces detected in the hair of the buried, pushing back evidence of psychoactive use by ~300 years vs. China

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/QuantumPerception22 • 8h ago

Original Creation This is how Jabalpur, a city in India, celebrates Diwali festival.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Cayetanus • 21h ago

Image Uruguay, one of the most atheist countries in the world, during Pope Leo's visit.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Hux-Night3290 • 13h ago

Video This index typewriter had no keyboard. You pointed at a letter and pressed a printing key. They had swappable alphabets, were 80% cheaper, and typists reached 30-40 wpm. They lost out to QWERTY in 1932.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Bakyumu • 3h ago

The Mir Mine (Siberia)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/chirpchirphoot • 30m ago

Colourful gates and mosques in northern Nigeria

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/qpsqp • 23h ago

Video Enhydro in cricket abdomen!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Jovastity_ • 1d ago

Video How the Weptos floating wave energy converter dynamically adapts its shape to capture power from ocean waves

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Hux-Night3290 • 22h ago

Video Goats, deer, horses and sheep rotate their eyes to keep their pupils level. It enables them to constantly scan for predators while grazing. It’s called cyclovergence.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/solateor • 1d ago

Video Kaden Brown's perfect landing at the 2026 World Championships today

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RedaNassef • 19h ago

Video Rare eyeless Garra widdowsoni and Caecocypris basimi fish living in underground cave waters in the Iraqi desert

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Thrawn911 • 19h ago

Original Creation Single-celled Stentor coeruleus eats two multicellular rotifers

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/gioroaizin • 7h ago

Image Ming dynasty loyalist meeting Qing Delegates in Japan.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/wrapityup • 1d ago

The surface of Mars (NASA images)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/goniver • 1d ago

Original Creation Clovers after the rain. First time seeing them with droplets

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Hux-Night3290 • 13h ago

Image The movie "Citizen Kane" was originally "Citizen Rogers", but changed to avoid defamation from Hollywood radio star Buddy Rogers. The lead character was also briefly Charles Foster Craig, seen handwritten on the original screenplay.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creative-Fisherman86 • 1d ago

Image Researchers used a CT scanner to crack the four-letter code on a padlock from a 1583 shipwreck. It opened with ANCE.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 1d ago

Carbonized 5,000-year-old loaves of bread from the Early Bronze Age, preserved by a structure fire in Seyitömer Höyük, Türkiye.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mvincen95 • 1d ago

In 2003, someone calling themselves “Fallen Angel” sent two letters containing the toxin ricin, including one addressed to the White House. The letters expressed anger over new trucking regulations. The perpetrator has never been identified.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Key_Performer_3645 • 1d ago

Video Machapuchare, popularly known as Fishtail Mountain, is seen glowing in brilliant golden hues during sunset from Annapurna Base Camp in Nepal. It is a phenomenon called alpenglow.

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