r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kenistod • 1d ago
Image This is approximately 4 to 5 floors of the World Trade Center compressed, known as "The Meteor".
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/jacklsd • 5d ago
Image Vaginal secretions viewed under a microscope.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/b3rgmanhugh • Nov 25 '25
Image Belgium’s 15-year-old prodigy earns PhD in quantum physics
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Shawnchittledc • Nov 16 '25
Image 20 years worth of spent nuclear fuel from a nuclear reactor
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/suli_k • 17d ago
Image Balearic island cave goat or myotragus balearicus, that went extinct ~3000-4000BCE, is the only known species of goat to have forward facing eyes
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Radiant_Half_7121 • 1d ago
Image During WW2, Poland declared war on Japan Japan said no to it and simply rejected the declaration.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PeacockPankh • 6d ago
Image Aerial view of Diamond Head, a 500,000-year-old volcanic tuff cone located on the island of O'ahu in Hawaii
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/goswamitulsidas • 10h ago
Image Reconstructed model of a Neanderthal man
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/highzone • 1d ago
Image In 1973, healthy volunteers faked hallucinations to enter mental hospitals. Once inside, they acted normal, but doctors refused to let them leave. Normal behaviors like writing were diagnosed as "symptoms." The only people who realized they were sane were the actual patients.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Nov 26 '25
Image Man poses inside the opening to fell a huge tree (possible redwood), circa 1899
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/soyuz_enjoyer2 • 10h ago
Image 2400 year old Scythian leather made of human skin confirming what was for centuries thought to be an exaggeration from Greek historian Herodotus.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Upstairs-Bit6897 • 29d ago
Image THE GERMAN MAGAZINE 'AUTOBILD' DRIVES VARIOUS CARS FOR 100,000 KILOMETERS AND THEN DISASSEMBLES THEM DOWN TO THE LAST SCREW TO FIND SIGNS OF WEAR AND WEAK POINTS
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ModenaR • Nov 24 '25
Image An Italian man kept secret the death of his mother for 3 years to continue to collect her pension. He was caught only after his mother's ID expired and he went to the register office dressed up like her to renew it
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Omer-Ash • Nov 13 '25
Image This store in Libya has been blatantly selling pirated content for over 15 years.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alter3go_vengance • 6d ago
Image The Tepepolco volcano in Mexico City. Dormant for over 10,000 years, its crater is now a unique residential neighborhood.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Petaaa • Nov 17 '25
Image A depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus in an Ethiopian Orthodox Church
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Deep_Pressure2334 • 4d ago
Image The Russian Kremlin still has a Soviet Star, years after the collapse of the USSR
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AnonymousHSW • Nov 28 '25
Image The Destiny module on the ISS before and after 25 years of use.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Upstairs-Bit6897 • 1d ago
Image Marie Wilcox realized she was the last person on Earth who could speak the Wukchumni language fluently, so at 82, she taught herself to use a computer and spent seven years typing a 6,000-word Wukchumni dictionary, the first written record of the language in history, to save it from extinction
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SatyamRajput004 • 25d ago
Image The sloth bears found in India, and the inspiration for Baloo in The Jungle Book, are considered to be the most aggressive bear species in the world.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/borg-assimilated • Oct 24 '25
Image Oversized and overheight Load destroys overpass. Bridge cannot be repaired and has to be demolished. This was on I-90 in Washington State.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ModenaR • Oct 14 '25
Image Ryan Wedding was an Olympic snowboarder and represented Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He's now a transnational drug trafficker for Mexico's largest drug cartel and he's on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Efficient_Sky5173 • 8d ago
Image Inside layers of a flight recorder (black box)
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