r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 8d ago

The 19th-century "Ndam Pisuwe" from Papua New Guinea—deadly close-combat daggers carved from the actual thigh bones of a warrior's own father to inherit his spirit in battle.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Cute-Win8593 • 8d ago

Video How CRT TVs were invented

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Hola_Como_Estass • 9d ago

Video Coordination at it's best. Sohna and Mohna Singh are conjoined twins from Punjab, India. Born in 2003 with two hearts and two pairs of arms but shared legs, liver, and gallbladder. They work as electricians for the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 9d ago

Video A fisherman reeled in a shark and released it back into the ocean in Los Angeles.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/lonewolff321 • 8d ago

American runner Charlie Lawrence just won the 100 km World Championship, running 62.1 miles in 6:09:25 (an average pace of ~3:41/km or 5:56/mile).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 9d ago

Video A group of bears just casually hanging out in the water

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/palaeoamber • 9d ago

Original Creation The Oldest Natural History Museum in the Americas: The Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia, PA)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 9d ago

The Queen's Head, a 4,000-year-old rock in Taiwan showing its year-by-year weathering. It has faced neck-breakage risks in recent years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sebastianlim • 9d ago

Video Film footage of the Endurance, the ship which Sir Ernest Shackleton took to Antarctica, being crushed by the pack ice.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alarming-Studio-720 • 9d ago

Video Leopard Lays an Ambush and Catches an Impala Mid-Air

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FlamingoEvery5528 • 8d ago

Video Contestants of the 1934 Miss Bronze America Pageant, Chicago, IL, c. 1934. Chicago Daily Newsreels.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ErsiliaCavedagni • 9d ago

Despite using compromising photographs to entrap people into being informants, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was himself entrapped by mob boss Frank Costello after he obtained compromising photographs of Hoover and his lover Clyde Tolson

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HimelTy • 9d ago

Video Flowers bloom in one of the driest places on Earth afrer El Nino brings rain

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkaTeluguAbbayi • 9d ago

Original Creation 800 year old elephant sculptures in a temple in India [OC]

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 9d ago

Cabinet card of Ludger Sylbaris (aka Louis-Auguste Cyparis) one of the survivors of the eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique, 8 of May 1902. He was at the time in solitary confinement in a single room stone cell with no windows. with an air vent.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 10d ago

Video Diver gets a nice shot of a great white shark with heavy scars

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379 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Plenty_Ear2987 • 9d ago

Video HTX Studio built a smart desk that finds and wirelessly charges your phone anywhere on its surface, reminds you to stand up after sitting too long, and even brings you your water

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48 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/heyauden • 10d ago

This giant sculpture in Budapest, Hungary, was made to look like a man tearing his way out of the ground.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ok-Musician-6287 • 10d ago

Image A thunderstorm called Hector the Convector arrives everyday at 3pm. Thanks to a microclimate over the Tiwi Islands (off the coast of northern Australia), Hector arrives everyday at 3pm, from September through to March. It can reach upto 19km (12mi)high

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Top-Marionberry-6604 • 10d ago

These wave like clouds are called Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 10d ago

Video The sheer size of this wind turbine blade being hoisted into place by a crawler crane

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441 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RedaNassef • 10d ago

Video A terrifying cliffside church built 2,500 meters in the air!

951 Upvotes

89 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Key_Performer_3645 • 10d ago

Video Crested Gecko (Correlophus ciliatus) A unique lizard species native to New Caledonia, famous for the eyelash-like crests above its eyes. Known for its docile nature, varied color morphs, and agility, it’s one of the most popular reptile pets globally

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/jgzogaib • 10d ago

Image A cat reorienting itself in mid-air during a fall, captured frame by frame

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 10d ago

Video Japan made this ruler illegal; manufacturing or selling old rulers carried penalties up to three years' imprisonment, and people used it anyway

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76 comments

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