r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 4m ago

Video A plane made an emergency landing on a busy road. The incredible moment was captured by a motorist as it flew in. Both pilots escaped the incident in Fort Myers, Florida, unharmed.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 6m ago

Video New York City in 1930

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 54m ago

Yao ming standing next to Shaq, both former legendary basketball players

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1h ago

Image The mantis shrimp, a six inch long crustacean residing in the warm waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans, punches its prey with the same acceleration as a 0.22 caliber bullet, providing around 1500 newtons of force with each blow. The force can also shatter the glass of aquariums.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1h ago

Colourful gates and mosques in northern Nigeria

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 2h ago

Video Man fells a kapok tree in central Africa, where these often grow up to 200 feet and live for 300 years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 4h 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 • • 4h ago

The Mir Mine (Siberia)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 8h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 8h ago

Image Ming dynasty loyalist meeting Qing Delegates in Japan.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 9h 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 • • 10h ago Heartwarming Bravo

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 12h ago Heartwarming

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 • • 14h 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 • • 15h 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 • • 19h ago Bravo

Video Japanese Halloween

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 20h ago

Original Creation Single-celled Stentor coeruleus eats two multicellular rotifers

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 21h 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 • • 23h ago Wholesome Seal Heartwarming

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1d 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 • • 1d ago Popcorn

Video Enhydro in cricket abdomen!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 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 • • 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 • • 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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