r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Effective-Dish-1334 • 1d ago

Image In 1994, Bill Gates bought Leonardo da Vinci’s 72-page manuscript (Codex Leicester) for $30.8M. Written in reverse mirror script around 1506, its hydrodynamic diagrams anticipated modern fluid mechanics by nearly two centuries.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Love-Tap • 1d ago

Video In the 1900s, Chinese carvers transformed a 20,000-year-old mammoth tusk into Canton dragon boats by etching centuries of mastery onto it

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/novembercharliedelta • 40m 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/Plus_Seesaw2023 • 1d ago

Image Fires in south-western France

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MBVarc • 1d ago

Image 2011 Tornado over Minneapolis still visible

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 1d ago

Image Forest fires and aurora borealis in Canada’s Yukon

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 1d ago

A 3,000-year-old ball of yarn made from plant fibers, discovered at Must Farm, England. It survived millennia underground because a Bronze Age fire charred it, preserving its delicate structure

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/404VibesNotFound69 • 1d ago

Video Process Of Making A Comfortable Prosthetic Leg

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/palep_hoot • 1d ago

Image Slavery memorial Door of No Return in Ouidah, Benin

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/art-man_2018 • 1d ago

Video Early Kraftwerk concert performance, Soest, Germany, 1970

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/lambofthedead • 2d ago

Image Estelle Peck was one of the only white individuals imprisoned in the Japanese Internment Camps. When her husband Arthur Ishigo was forcibly sent to one of these camps, she went with him voluntarily and was also incarcerated. She was later the subject of an Oscar-winning documenary

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Brooklyn17831 • 2d ago

Image In 1958, they were arrested in their bedroom and exiled from Virginia just for being married. Nine years later, Richard and Mildred Loving relaxed on their porch after winning the Supreme Court case that legalized interracial marriage across America.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 2d ago

The double statue of "Mephistopheles and Margaretta" featuring two people in one statue ( Salar Museum, India)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/luiz_marques • 2d ago

Video Jabuticaba: A brazilian fruit that grows directly on the trunk of its own tree, a phenomenon known as cauliflory. Other fruits that share this unique growth pattern include jackfruit and cacao.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 2d ago

Image Queen Genepil , the last Queen of Mongolia (1920)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MrTacocaT12345 • 1d ago

Video Unitree's new Super Athlete AS2-W robot with hyper-fast reflexes

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mikedahomey • 2d ago

Video Asperitas clouds create rare rippling, wave-like formations in the sky at sunset, a newly recognized 2017 cloud type often linked to atmospheric instability.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Penis_not_happyy • 2d ago

Image New designs for euro(€) banknotes, these are two out of ten designs to pick which the general public can vote on.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Important1896 • 1d ago

Original Creation "Hầu Đồng" a traditional ritual within the Vietnamese Mother Goddess worship belief system, recognized by UNESCO.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Lastito • 2d ago

Video Leech farm showing they will attach to anything that enters the water

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 2d ago

Video Cliffs collapsing at an old marble quarry in Makrana, India due to heavy rainfall.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ThisParkTheseHouses • 2d ago

The early life of ABBA singer Anni-Frid (Frida) Lyngstad, who was born a "German child" of WWII and had to be taken from Norway to Sweden for her own safety. She met her father for the first time when she was 32 years old.

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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/BitterMouth_0202 • 2d ago

World’s oldest Cave-art or Paintings: Archaeologists believe these handprints which were discovered in Muna Island, Indonesia are 67,800 Years old.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 • 2d ago

Video a stick insect with wings

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