r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alternative_Cream799 • 7h ago
Video A man who saved his own life by performing the Heimlich maneuver on himself
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • 8h ago
Video The way different species of moss look close up
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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/Awkward_Corner_9853 • 16h ago
Video The lungs of a 52 y.o. organ donor after 30 years of smoking NSFW
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Main_Locksmith_2543 • 19h ago
Ancient manuscript or sea shell? Meet Lioconcha hieroglyphica, the clam that grows its own 'hieroglyphs'.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Traditional_Driver97 • 9h 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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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/anikkundu1998 • 1d ago
Video Creating two screens on phone using a mirror.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/StemCellPirate • 13h ago
Video Earth’s evolution measured in galactic years.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Main_Locksmith_2543 • 1h 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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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/-chibcha- • 9h 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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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nigablackballsack • 14h ago
Video Dwarf reed snakes can perform cartwheeling to escape from predators.
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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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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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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/jgzogaib • 1d ago
Eadweard Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope disc "A Couple Waltzing" (No. 35), published in 1893.
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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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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Remarkable-Pea4889 • 1d ago
Image Head of a statue of Ramses II found on Egyptian farm
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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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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Zyad7770__ • 1d ago
The amount of detail carved into this 12th-century temple is insane
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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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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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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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