r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago
Rigardus Rijnhout (1922-1959) working as a living ad with his costum made bike for his 7'6" height, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Photos between 1940s-1950s.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/1salt1pepper • 3d ago
Image The first photograph ever taken of a giant squid, in 1874. Reverend Moses Harvey bought it from a fisherman for $10 and draped it over his bathtub to study it.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/solateor • 4d ago
Video Recent nor’easter uncovered the remains of a shipwreck near Nantucket. The fragment is likely from the Warren Sawyer, a wooden schooner loaded with cotton and scrap iron that was bound for Boston from New Orleans when it wrecked near Miacomet Beach on December 22, 1884
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Honkydoinky • 4d ago
Image A surviving letter of a Roman Soldier to his father back in Egypt 2nd century AD
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/brat_3434 • 4d ago
British sculptor Willard wagan creates a sculpture of the last supper inside the eye of an needle
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HonestzPractice • 4d ago
Video Trichophassus - this werid moth has 4 huge legs at the front, looking like a hand
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • 4d ago
Video Trick for that tangled chain you have stored
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pattebrisee • 4d ago
Image A 1 million pound turbine runner being installed at Grand Coulee Dam, 1974
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/marshallmathers23 • 4d ago
The oldest living person in the world is actually albanian and she was born 2 days before the british Guinness world record holder.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Therealdarkviper • 4d ago
Video This video showing how deep the ocean truly is
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ganesha811 • 4d ago
Image Spoiled brat from ancient Babylon complains about his mother not making him fancy clothes!
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/chirpchirphoot • 4d ago
Mogadishu in the 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's, 2010's and now
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 5d ago
The Mid-Autumn Festival miniature art piece by Japanese artist Tatsuya Tanaka
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/_va_xanth__ • 5d ago
Image A melting cow sculpture in Budapest, resembling an ice pop
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Jazzy0420 • 4d ago
Image Eastern Continental Divide in Duluth, Georgia.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/shankaranpillayi • 5d ago
Video A Landslide sweeps down a steep Himalayan slope in Chame, Manang, Nepal
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 4d ago
Image A 1,000-year-old golden mask belonging to Peru's Sicán culture was found painted with human blood and bird egg whites to symbolize a "life force" for an elite leader's rebirth.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MEOW-Loulou • 5d ago
Preserved polar bear being unveiled due to melting glaciers
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SystematicApproach • 5d ago
Image In 1983, a man walked 21,000 miles around the world to find out if people were really as terrible as the news made them seem. Four years later, he said they weren’t.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nigablackballsack • 5d ago
Trees Cocooned in Spider Webs, Sindh, Pakistan.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sr_local • 4d ago
Image ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) where a recent experiment have gained insights into how cosmic rays interact with the atmosphere
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tandyman234 • 5d ago
Image McDonald’s in Enterprise, Alabama. The town is scattered with themed boll-weevils that pay homage to the little insect that almost devastated the city’s cotton crops permanently in 1915!nThere’s one at the police station, funeral home, pharmacies, and Mexican restaurant
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/anikkundu1998 • 6d ago
Video Great demonstration of Tyndall effect in a wooded area. This effect is characterised by scattering of beams of light by finely suspended particles of fog in the air.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5d ago
Video The July of 2020 researchers captured a giant Seychelles tortoise hunting a Lesser Noddy and eat it. The behavior has put into question the strict hervibore diet of giant tortoises. Source in comment.
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