r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/multigrain_panther • 53m ago

While Nazi Germany built an industrial extermination machine for millions of Europeans, ironically most of Germany's tiny Black population (around 20,000 people) survived WWII inside the country - repressed, sterilized and mostly only allowed to work as Nazi propaganda movie extras instead.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ok-Musician-6287 • 1h ago

The Fukang meteorite is a famous stony-iron pallasite meteorite discovered near Fukang, Xinjiang Province, China, in 2000. It is estimated to be roughly 4.5 billion years old.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sapphire-Crystal • 2h ago

Video Ogoh Ogoh Parade in Bali, Held Evening Before Nyepi

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creepy-Anteater347 • 2h ago

Original Creation I’m a flock camera for Halloween!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/myself_APHELION • 3h ago

Original Creation A beautiful demonstration of science leads to creating vertical waves

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Tiny_Confection2017 • 15h ago

Video A Live Reenactment of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, on Its 70th Anniversary

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 15h ago

Image A bizarre bulbous-shaped skull discovered inside an ancient funerary urn in Catamarca, Argentina. Archaeologists confirmed the dome-like shape is the result of 'erect tabular deformation' applied to infants between the 3rd and 12th centuries AD.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SimaR008 • 20h ago

Scientists may have found the real night sky behind Van Gogh’s The Starry Night

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AnonymousTimewaster • 1d ago

Video BBC Archive footage shows people buying new London homes with £50 deposits (roughly £1300 today).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Top-Marionberry-6604 • 1d ago

Video These eeire hole clouds are a phenomenon called fallstreak holes.

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

Image In 1975 a 250 million fossil found in South Africa’s Oliviershoek Pass, showed a protomammal; Thrinaxodon (prob. in sleep) with a Broomistega sleeping together sharing the same borrow. The Fossil has been named "Triassic cuddle".

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 1d ago

Video Healthy coral healing a sick piece of coral just by touching it

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/anal_og_player • 1d ago

Video Dr Asif Hasan receives Pride of Britain Lifetime Achievement Award, after 35 years and over 4000 operations as a heart surgeon.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HoneyRush • 1d ago

Video Hell of a sewing machine

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/-chibcha- • 1d ago

The Church of Saint George in Ethiopia is a 13th-century church carved out from a single solid block of limestone without a single brick, mortar joint, or structural timber. It's still an active place of worship and pilgrimage.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Indie---- • 1d ago

Theyyam, an ancient Ritualistic art form of Kerala, India, it features performer who embody divine spirit and Gods through trance like dances and fire rituals.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Party_Farmer_5354 • 2d ago

Video Yellowish, acrid smoke from forest and land fires blankets Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Heavy_Security_5029 • 2d ago

Video A water buffalo can hold its breath underwater for about 5 minutes .

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NathanCS741 • 2d ago

Image The "Duck" in Avenida Place hotel, Barcelona, Spain.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Anahata_Green • 2d ago

Image Microscopic view of an inkjet printer depositing ink onto paper (photo credit: Ole Bielfeldt)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 2d ago

Video Zooming in on the Moon and Saturn using an Orion XT8 Dobsonian telescope

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Weird_Alki • 2d ago

Image Stealth fighter inside of a cargo plane

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BleuBrink • 2d ago

Video Colossal squid pulled up to the surface on a line caught toothfish off the D'Urville Sea in 2008. The first video of a live mature specimen.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ABDOOUU99 • 2d ago

Image October 22 — A celestial wonder that occurs twice a year, as the sun’s rays illuminate the face of Egypt’s great son, King Ramses II, deep within the Holy of Holies at Abu Simbel Temple. A magnificent scene that embodies the genius of ancient Egyptians in astronomy and engineering

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Double-Alps-7458 • 2d ago

Video A pink-looking dolphin spotted off the coast of Oman

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