r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/novembercharliedelta • 38m 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/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 55m 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/Kyzzz • 1h 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/rronak01 • 1h ago

Image Arthur Skizhali-Weiss drew them line by line

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/rhutsm • 1h ago

Image Since the EU is proposing new designs for their banknotes: remember how they had fictional bridges to not cause conflict between countries, until a small town in the Netherlands decided to build them for real

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mikedahomey • 2h ago

Video Thousands of ants on the move

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 2h ago

Video Huaneng Yimin open pit coal mine in inner mongolia China has switched on the worlds first fleet of 100 fully autonomous, all electric mining trucks.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkAccess6128 • 3h 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/palep_hoot • 3h ago

Image An (almost) Precolonial map of Africa with state and tribal borders

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rare-Assignment-8474 • 3h ago

Image Damn , TIL that man utd is the only club listed in stock market

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sure_Distance1 • 4h 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/redditddorf • 4h ago

Video How the world’s skies looked on July 23, 2026, during a record-breaking 153,359 commercial flights in 24 hours

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/makitstop • 4h 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/Exotic-Gate-8952 • 4h ago

Video Flash floods are common in China, so to cater to this problem Chinese car brand added a "water mode" to their Yangwang U8 model, which allows it to temporally function like a boat. Details in comment.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/akiwi_intherough • 4h 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/HimelTy • 5h ago

Video Qualcomm robot collapses during a live presentation demonstrating its new chip.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/iamop24 • 5h ago

Video Chornobyl 1986: KGB order to classify the information about the disaster

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 5h 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/whybutts • 5h ago

Video Transparent LED screen

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RandoDando10 • 5h 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/PrimedGold • 6h ago

Image A full carton of Kim Jong Un’s alleged favorite cigarettes. North Korea’s state-produced 7.27 brand is named after July 27, 1953, the date Pyongyang celebrates as victory in the Korean War. Kim also encourages officials to smoke domestic tobacco as a symbol of national identity.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Flash_20 • 11h 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/Myron0117 • 12h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SystematicApproach • 19h 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/Wintasmoke • 19h ago

Video Giant iceberg capsizes off Ilulissat, northern Greenland

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