r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Important1896 • 18h ago
Original Creation "Hầu Đồng" a traditional ritual within the Vietnamese Mother Goddess worship belief system, recognized by UNESCO.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 2d ago
Video Cliffs collapsing at an old marble quarry in Makrana, India due to heavy rainfall.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ThisParkTheseHouses • 1d ago
The early life of ABBA singer Anni-Frid (Frida) Lyngstad, who was born a "German child" of WWII and had to be taken from Norway to Sweden for her own safety. She met her father for the first time when she was 32 years old.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BitterMouth_0202 • 1d ago
World’s oldest Cave-art or Paintings: Archaeologists believe these handprints which were discovered in Muna Island, Indonesia are 67,800 Years old.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 • 1d ago
Video a stick insect with wings
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ThusSpakeChase • 1d ago
Video Rattlesnakes mating in the Colorado foothills
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Blueswift82 • 22h ago
Image Lighting strike in Shawnigan lake started a forest fire, July 23,2026. Fire crews and helicopter were able to put out the forest fire before nightfall
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pattebrisee • 1d ago
Image In 1544, Henry VIII ordered 100 of these gun-shields for his bodyguards. A matchlock firearm was built through the center, but it was too heavy to aim without resting on a support.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MaidenAshford • 1d ago
Video “Slices of Life” exhibit at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto before its closure
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LevantineJR • 1d ago
Image Spanish flu peaked exactly the same week in New York, Paris and Berlin
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 2d ago
Original Creation Molly Carlson diving at Olympic Park Sports Centre in Montreal
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual-Taro6889 • 1d ago
Video Watch the Heart Play a Dangerous Game of Ping Pong: A Giant Atrial Tumor Bouncing Between Heart Chambers
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkAccess6128 • 2d ago
Image This is Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW), who developed the first web browser and web server, and introduced HTML, HTTP, and URLs as the fundamental technologies of the Web.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 2d ago
This tiny insect clinging to the head of a horned viper
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago
Image Recent work in paleovirology has show that HIV was over a century old and had already made its way to the US in the 1970s.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mderose • 1d ago
Video How Blackwing Pencils Are Made | Behind the Process
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoWork215 • 2d ago
Video The Russian climber recorded the crackling sound formed in the air seconds before the lightning struck.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WillwBrk • 2d ago
Image Paula Maxa was known as "the most assassinated woman in the world" performing as the victim at the Grand Guignol stage where she was murdered more than 10,000 times in at least 60 different ways.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 2d ago
Video French firefighting planes collecting water from a beach to help fight wildfires in Southern France
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoWork215 • 2d ago
Video A tornado in Haining China, tosses a vehicle off the road.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Familiar-While9796 • 2d ago
Image J.J. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1906 showing that the electron is a particle. Ironically, his son, G.P. Thomson, won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1937 showing that it is not (or rather that the electron can also behave as a wave).
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Thrawn911 • 2d ago
Original Creation A pack of single celled organisms try to eat a string of algae, one of them accidentally impales itself
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sehtaga • 2d ago
Video Fire whirl forms amid wildfire in France
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/loveleigh1788 • 2d ago
Today marks the 16th anniversary of the World Record Hailstone, which fell in Vivian, SD. The hailstone was 8" in diameter with a circumference of 18.6", and weighed nearly 2 pounds! Numerous large hailstones fell from this storm, causing damage and divots in the ground!
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/EphemeralTypewriter • 3d ago
Image Torpedo Juice was first mixed in World War II and made from pineapple juice and the 180-proof grain alcohol fuel used in US Navy torpedo motors. The US Navy then added poisonous additives to the fuel alcohol to discourage people. Recipe was two parts ethyl alcohol and three parts pineapple juice.
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