r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Own_Pop_5549 • 18h ago
Image Copper cable and a single optical fiber that replaced it with the same capacity
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GonzoVeritas • 3d ago
Image Approximately 1,400 individual satellites as seen in the New Zealand night sky. This is a composite image made up of 578 individual 8-second exposures, captured by photographer Brendan Larsen.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/IM2X_ • 25d ago
Image Two galaxies are colliding 60 million light-years away - and this is what it looks like
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rooonaldooo99 • Sep 05 '26
Image American Airlines passenger duct taped to seat following disruptive behavior onboard the flight
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Trchickenugg_ohe • Sep 01 '26
Image Duane Keith Davis has been found guilty of the murder of Tupac Shakur
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Gullible_Shoe_9558 • Aug 26 '26
Image Before and after of Syapru beshi, one of the affected areas of today's flash flooding in Nepal.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ResponsibilityNo2097 • 29d ago
Image Satellite view of Category 5 Hurricane Polo next to Mexico
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mvincen95 • 6d ago
Image Dr. Gay Hitler, son of George Washington Hitler, worked as a dentist in Circleville, Ohio, for over 40 years. Born in 1882, he lived long enough to see his surname become the most infamous in world history, dying in 1948.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sweet-Swimming2022 • Aug 29 '26
Image The Statue of Liberty being unboxed, 1885
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Downtown_Wind3363 • May 25 '26
Image The smallpox vaccine leaves a scar because it was given using a special two-pronged needle that scratched the skin and put a weakened virus in just that spot.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Penis_not_happyy • Jul 24 '26
Image New designs for euro(€) banknotes, these are two out of ten designs to pick which the general public can vote on.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Evas0nAccutane • Aug 02 '26
Image Drivers in Greece have been driving over a collapsed bridge as it’s quicker than going around it.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Yolo065 • Aug 01 '26
Image The Evolution of Ancient Greek Statues
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/IM2X_ • 7d ago
Image A British gardener grew a 26 kg (57 lb) beetroot, breaking the world record in 2026
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Expert_Koala_8691 • May 10 '26
Image A Bill Gates funded mosquito factory in Medellín, Colombia, produces 40 million mosquitoes weekly for release via drones and bikes. These insects carry a natural bacterium that prevents them from transmitting viruses to humans. By mating with wild populations, they spread this trait.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GaddockTeegFunPolice • Jul 31 '26
Image The leg of a professional sumo wrestler (Ura Kazuki )
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Delicious_Main_4360 • May 15 '26
Image Differences in the spot pattern of the Cheetah, Leopard, and Jaguar
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hydratedpsycho • Aug 02 '26
Image An Iraqi surgeon (Dr. Diyar Abdulwahid) successfully grew a temporary nose on a patients's forehead to reconstruct his face after losing a 99% of his nose to a severe electric schock
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ModenaR • Jun 16 '26
Image One of Hitler's bodyguards, Rochus Misch, lived long enough to see the movie "Downfall". When asked about the film's historical accuracy, he stated that it was factually accurate, although "Americanized"
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/stainless5 • Jul 21 '26
Image By law, every Australian must get a tax receipt that shows exactly where each dollar of their tax is spent.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ModenaR • Sep 13 '26
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/west_manchester • Aug 07 '26
Image This tree surrounded by mushrooms
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RipperReeta • Jul 27 '26
Image To put into perspective how huge the 2020 Australian 'Black Summer' bushfires were: The combined area burned across BOTH Canada and ALL of fires currently burning across Europe (2.63 million hectares) right now is still around 10% of what Australia lost (24 million hectares).
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Emotional_Quarter330 • Jun 03 '26
Image In 1204, a Japanese poet wrote in his diary that the sky turned blood red for 3 nights. 800 years later, scientists drilled into buried trees and confirmed: he was witnessing a catastrophic solar storm that would have fried every satellite on Earth today.
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