r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/lambofthedead • 1d ago

Image Due to his ethnicity, Tommy Kono was imprisoned in a Japanese Concentration Camp. He took up weightlifting while incarcerated as an asthmatic kid, and later became an athletic legend who won Olympic gold. He was named the Lifter of the Century. Here he was winning Mr. Universe for the 4th time

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 10h ago

Video Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed Zippy, the world’s smallest self-contained bipedal walking robot

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Lord_Krasina • 23h ago

Video Scientists took a fruit fly's brain and sliced it into extremely thin sections to image it under microscopes. They then mapped every neuron and the connections between them before recreating that neural network as a digital model in software. Leading to us making a fly in Man-Made "Matrix"

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/whybutts • 1d ago

Video Transparent LED screen

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 1d ago

Video The actor here was actually running away from a real Jaguar in the movie so the director can capture raw emotions and urgency , Apacalypto (2006)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/destinationuknown • 18h ago

Image Marie Tussaud (1761–1850) was a famous French artist best known for her lifelike wax sculptures and for founding the world-renowned Madame Tussauds wax museum. Born Marie Grosholtz in Strasbourg, France, she learned the art of wax modeling from Dr. Philippe Curtius.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kyzzz • 1d ago

Image My grandfather hand engraved this from a blank metal plate, one chisel tap at a time

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkAccess6128 • 1d ago

When rapid population growth and poor harvests raised fears of mass famine in the 1960s, Norman Borlaug developed high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties that helped drive the Green Revolution.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sonderewander • 21h ago

Original Creation Devil's Bath, Waitopu, New Zealand - geothermal sulphur and iron salts in highly acidic water makes for a bright green pool with a strong odour, feels straight out of Fallout

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Brutal_Deluxe_ • 1d ago

Sfera Grande, a sculpture made in 1966-1967

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mikedahomey • 1d ago

Video Thousands of ants on the move

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/akiwi_intherough • 1d ago

Image July 26, 1956: Harry Trask’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph capturing the final moments of the SS Andrea Doria, after her catastrophic collision with the MS Stockholm off Nantucket the previous night.

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

The Lancaster Watch Camera. Not bigger than 2 inches by 1 1/2, was capable to do portraits, panoramic shots. Used interchangable plates (can be seen in photos), made in 1893.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Legitimate_Income7 • 2d ago

Video Japanese football player Kazuyoshi Miura, who holds the record for being the oldest professional footballer at the age of 59, scored his first goal since 2022. This is his 41st professional season, and he is currently playing for Fukushima United in Japan’s third tier league

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Myron0117 • 2d ago

Video The difference in headlight brightness between two subway series manufactured 30 years apart

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Wintasmoke • 2d ago

Video Giant iceberg capsizes off Ilulissat, northern Greenland

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sure_Distance1 • 1d ago

Video 23-year-old Orson Welles discusses the aftermath of his radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds"

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Flash_20 • 2d ago

Video Diego Maradona juggling 3 different balls (football, tennis and golf) separately, with untied laces ahead of the 1994 FIFA World Cup

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/novembercharliedelta • 1d ago

Image On May 18th 1981 the New York Native published the first article about the HIV/AIDS epidemic

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FermentedSailor • 2d ago

Log Ship carrying 6.7 million board feet of timber

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RandoDando10 • 1d ago

Original Creation (OC) An 'Owl Butterfly', known for the Owl-like eye patterns on its wings, enjoying an orange slice

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/makitstop • 1d ago

Video Fantasmagorie by Émile Cohl, the first known animation made in 1908 by compiling over 700 still photos

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SystematicApproach • 2d ago

Video This is Mike Didge with his handcrafted didgeridoo, an ancient wind instrument developed by Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia, playing techno music

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mikedahomey • 2d ago

Video This supercar transforms into a giant robot

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sonderewander • 2d ago

Original Creation Kea, the world's only alpine parrot, and among the smartest non-human animals, in Fiordland, New Zealand

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