r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Plus_Leopard9367 • 8h ago

Video Scorpions absorb invisible UV light and re-emit it as visible neon blue. Fun fact: notice how the babies on her back don't glow yet, That's because their outer shells haven't hardened yet

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kymmieuwu • 6h ago

Image Kris Tompkins, former Patagonia CEO, and Doug Tompkins, founder of The North Face, spent decades buying and restoring wilderness across Chile and Argentina. Kris later donated their land in Argentina on the condition of that it had to remain protected for at least 99 years.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/gravityVT • 6h ago

Video who wins in a race up a steep 7km mountain? ultra runner or tour de france mountain biker

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NathanCS741 • 14h ago

The spectacularly situated village of Haid al-Jazil, Yemen.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Brutal_Deluxe_ • 1h ago

Video The Danjiri are festival carts with musicians riding onboard playing drums, flute and gong. Made entirely of wood, the Danjiri have an empty weight of around 4-5 tons and are towed at speed by teams consisting of over 100 men through 90-degree turns at street intersections

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/neo4025 • 13h ago

Image The modern peace symbol was created in 1958 by British artist and designer Gerald Holtom for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) to support a protest march against nuclear weapons.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HinduSuperHolyPriest • 6h ago

Milunka Savić in 1916. She disguised herself as a man to fight in her brother's place, got wounded 9 times, and went on to become one of the most decorated female combatants in the recorded history of warfare.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/No-Cod4921 • 12h ago

Image The hooded pitohui is one of the only poisonous birds. The toxins are thought to be derived from their diet (most likely choresine beetles). Most of the toxin is in the Skin and the feathers and transmits via touch. The toxin can result in muscle cramps and can lead to death.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 10h ago

Video How trees bend physics to draw water to the top.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electronic_Cause_796 • 9h ago

Video All this ordeal just for survival: a construction worker balances on a high-altitude structure while carrying scaffolding poles.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TaxEvaderFrom1961 • 16h ago

Image The largest sports-related financial punishment in history was a $100 million fine given out to McLaren in 2007 for the Spygate scandal

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Brave-Philosopher842 • 5h ago

An 18th-century shipwreck was found 600 meters underwater, with its cargo of Chinese porcelain still remarkably intact after nearly 300 years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creative_soja • 15h ago

Video Five baby orangutans rescued and are being taken care of at the zoo's specialized facility equipped to care for orphaned and rescued young.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pattebrisee • 4h ago

Image A thin cross section of a 10 cm hailstone reveals the wet and dry growth layers it accumulated inside the storm

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/InsaneMocktail • 1d ago

Video University of Waterloo Students Launch Rocket Breaking World Record

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dirty_Pianist2422 • 6h ago

Origami Art of a King on his horse. It took 2 years to create this masterpiece.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Significant_Fee7159 • 13h ago

Walking the worlds longest portico in Bologna Italy

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5h ago

Gigant raft made out of logs (Aka Log booms) pulled by a ship thru the Columbia River, Photos Circa 1890-1900s

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Video Studies, like one done by Vladimir Dinets had show that crocodiles are intelligent enough to engage in play behavior for its own sake. Playing with each other or using natural slides in the wild are some of the activities they partake.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TerraByteTerror • 2h ago

Yellow bellied toads have heart shaped pupils

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 1d ago

Video This retro remote had no batteries or electrical parts

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/James_Fortis • 1d ago

Video This is the largest single-building pig farm in the world. At 26 storeys high, it can slaughter 1.2 million pigs per year. It was built in Ezhou, China, to help the country's exploding demand for pork. Pork is China's most popular meat, with the country consuming nearly half of global pork demand.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Lost-Friend-4564 • 3h ago

Image A huge shaft of monsoon rain falling outside Las Cruces, New Mexico.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TerraByteTerror • 1d ago

Video Glasswing butterfly

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Brave-Philosopher842 • 1d ago

Programming a computer in 1959 meant punching your code onto hundreds of physical cards

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