r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Main_Locksmith_2543 • 46m ago

Video Portrait of Ekaterina Volotskaya by Gavriil Yakovlev (1855–1856), showcasing incredibly realistic lace and silk. Housed at The Hermitage Museum.

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3 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/VelvetDreamers • 4h ago

Video The Flehmen response.

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428 Upvotes

97 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/west_manchester • 5h ago

Image Street art in Thailand

656 Upvotes

44 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alternative_Cream799 • 6h ago

Video A man who saved his own life by performing the Heimlich maneuver on himself

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6.5k Upvotes

205 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • 7h ago

Video The way different species of moss look close up

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7.6k Upvotes

72 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/-chibcha- • 8h ago

This is Hang Sơn Đoòng, the world’s largest cave, located in Phong Nha, Vietnam. It contains an entire rainforest, underground rivers, and even its own weather patterns that generate internal fog and cloud formations.

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238 Upvotes

16 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Traditional_Driver97 • 8h ago

Original Creation A NASA satellite spotted 41,394 fires across Southeast Asia in a single week. The bursts are the satellite passing over twice a day.

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538 Upvotes

85 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/StemCellPirate • 12h ago

Video Earth’s evolution measured in galactic years.

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896 Upvotes

151 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nigablackballsack • 13h ago

Video Dwarf reed snakes can perform cartwheeling to escape from predators.

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289 Upvotes

37 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Awkward_Corner_9853 • 15h ago

Video The lungs of a 52 y.o. organ donor after 30 years of smoking NSFW

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5.7k Upvotes

671 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Own_Pop_5549 • 17h ago

Image Copper cable and a single optical fiber that replaced it with the same capacity

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1.0k comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Main_Locksmith_2543 • 18h ago

Ancient manuscript or sea shell? Meet Lioconcha hieroglyphica, the clam that grows its own 'hieroglyphs'.

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6.0k Upvotes

98 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/anikkundu1998 • 1d ago

Video Creating two screens on phone using a mirror.

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27k Upvotes

200 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/jgzogaib • 1d ago

Eadweard Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope disc "A Couple Waltzing" (No. 35), published in 1893.

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425 Upvotes

9 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Lola_Mar • 1d ago

Video Massive concentration of caimans in a lake in Humaitá, Amazonas, Brazil (footage by a coworker).

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69 Upvotes

5 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

The April of 2025 a Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise named "Mommy" became the oldest 1st time mother of their species at 97 years old. Of a clutch of 16, 4 hatched at the Philadelphia Zoo.

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3.3k Upvotes

37 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Main_Locksmith_2543 • 1d ago

Video Nature’s vibrant design: A pink Verconia norba sea slug captured underwater

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4.1k Upvotes

46 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Zyad7770__ • 1d ago

The amount of detail carved into this 12th-century temple is insane

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442 Upvotes

17 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Remarkable-Pea4889 • 1d ago

Image Head of a statue of Ramses II found on Egyptian farm

1.5k Upvotes

33 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 1d ago

Archaeologists in Türkiye have discovered 8,000-year-old carbonized figs inside a cave. Radiocarbon testing dates them to ~6300 BC, revealing that Neolithic humans were intentionally stockpiling and preserving them.

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5.5k Upvotes

127 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Main_Locksmith_2543 • 1d ago

Video A pyramid in the middle of a Scottish forest erected by Queen Victoria to commemorate Prince Albert.

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13k Upvotes

777 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Disastrous_Role_202 • 1d ago

Video Lego paper plane folder

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13k Upvotes

140 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GeorgeRobertVitkos • 2d ago

Video Installing a massive slot antenna on top of a radio tower over São Paulo, Brazil.

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755 Upvotes

49 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago

From the 19 of August 1897 to August of 1899, Bersey Electric Cab company offered electric cabs for the streets of London, England. Photos of them at the time and one restored.

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4.0k Upvotes

61 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Brutal_Deluxe_ • 2d ago

Video Giostra del saracino began ~1300AD in Arezzo, Italy. They're aiming for a 1.85" (47mm) diameter bullseye. The automaton that holds the target is spring-loaded and armed with a three-headed flail, daubed in dry ink. The tiniest spot of ink on a rider's back signifies disqualification

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6.5k Upvotes

170 comments

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