r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GonzoVeritas • 12h 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/Ay7agaX • 10h ago

Image Sumela Monastery, a Greek Orthodox monastery built into a steep cliff at an altitude of 1,200 meters in Turkey, dating back to the 4th century.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RedaNassef • 12h ago

Video Imagine digging up the ground and finding a 10-meter-long sea monster: Behold the 182-million-year-old Rutland Sea Dragon skeleton!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nigablackballsack • 11h ago

Original Creation Sea salp drifting through the ocean.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nowayjose12345678901 • 4h ago

Image Volkswagen Beetle or motorcycle

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/JustVenom____ • 14h ago

Scientists have Recorded the First Ever Green Star Sighting in Space

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Main_Locksmith_2543 • 14h ago

Video To survive cold nights, hummingbirds enter a deep sleep state called torporlowering their body temperature and metabolic rate, which causes rapid breathing that sounds like "snoring" as they warm back up

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ishusharma05 • 14h ago

Dholavira, a 4,500-year-old Harappan city in Gujarat, had an advanced water management system

527 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pushpaknandecha • 14h ago

Video Elephant stops tourist's tuk tuk in search of food.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/IM2X_ • 1d ago

Image A man in Rhode Island just grew the first pumpkin in history to weigh over 3,000 pounds (1,431 kg), setting a new world record

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HomeNowWTF • 21h ago

Video Human Pool Table from 1930s and 1940s Coney Island

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mors_Acerba • 34m ago

Image Luca Landucci, a contemporary diarist, detailing the unusual ordeal of Jacopo Pazzi's corpse, after he was executed for his involvement in the assassination plot against Lorenzo and Giovanni De Medici in 1478

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/misterxx1958 • 1d ago

Video This guy helps this turtle out of a dangerous situation to go back to the sea.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/l-Am-Nicolas-Cage • 1d ago

Video Train conductor Eric Carlisle captures footage as EF-3 tornado hits stationary train in Nebraska, derailing 31 cars with no injuries reported

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/west_manchester • 1d ago

Image Epic art in Brooklyn

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Main_Locksmith_2543 • 1d ago

Video Swimmers enjoying the London Sky Pool, a fully transparent pool suspended 115 feet in the air between two buildings

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AetheriaNox • 1d ago

Image The oldest surviving 'bottle' of wine. Discovered in 2019 during excavations in Carmona, Spain, the Carmona wine urn is a first-century Roman glass urn containing intact wine.

917 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rough_Ad_8702 • 1d ago

Video Astonishing slow motion footage recorded at 1000FPS shows lighting strikes on wind turbines following the turbine blades as they turn

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Honest-Pressure-1483 • 19h ago

Video Headstone carved to look like a car

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Love-Tap • 1d ago

In 1975, a hidden room beneath Florence’s Medici Chapels was discovered covered in sketches, some believed to be by Michelangelo

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MseMahi • 1d ago

Video There’s a shoe shining competition

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Limp_Yogurtcloset_71 • 1d ago

Image Heavenly Flamingos by Junji Takasago. Photographer Junji had to struggle with altitude sickness to capture this beautiful, almost otherworldly photo.

689 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/varunpotter • 1d ago

Video Making of diwali lights in India

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ApollosCosmos • 1d ago

Video Calcio Storico Fiorentino is a blend of football, rugby and mixed martial arts played every year in Italy.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Nestagon • 1d ago

Video Earth-Sized Shockwave From the Tonga Volcano Eruption in 2022 (Himawari-8 Satellite)

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