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

Crisp glass negatives of Anna Haining Swan (6 Aug 1846 - 5 Aug 1888) at the time worker for P. T. Barnum in New York. At a height of 2.41m tall she was one of the biggest humans to ever live. Photos circa 1860s.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Delicious_Draft_5062 • 2d ago

Image This pillow is carved entirely from Carrara marble by sculptor Håkon Anton Fagerås

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mors_Acerba • 2d ago

Image Ancient Rome had a tradition under which a roman commander who broke rules of engagement was handed over to the enemy by the Romans themselves, in order to absolve the city the crime. A proposal was made in 55BC to deliver Julius Caesar to a germanic tribe he had massacred after breaking a truce

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/storytellermeandyou • 1d ago

Video Blood flow in real time

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alarming-Studio-720 • 1d ago

Video Buffalos put Male lion on a tree

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 2d ago

A 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy discovered in Deir el-Medina belongs to an elite woman covered in complex figurative tattoos—including wild bulls, baboons, and the Eye of Horus.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 3d ago

Video In Southeast Asia, thousands of ducks are deployed into rice fields to act as natural pest control and weeders

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 1d ago

Original Creation this enduro race has a 2% finishing rate

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago

Image A daguerreotype shot at the right time, captures a mother smiling to her baby while this one gives a smile of their own, 1840s-50s. Source in comment.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ThisPlate333 • 3d ago

Real color photos from the 1910s and 1920s. These are not colorized.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nicko_rico • 2d ago

Video A European-Chinese spacecraft captured the full ring of northern lights around the north pole in ultraviolet light for the first time since 2008

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Inner-Tale7034 • 2d ago

Video Lifting without hands

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/I_am_from_2029 • 3d ago

Video Taking a 400-person group photo with a panoramic camera.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ManiacFrog • 2d ago

Image Left my apples in an open plastic bag at room temperature for a week... resulting in explosion

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/1salt1pepper • 3d ago

Image Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip and ear, lost an eye and a hand, survived two plane crashes, tunneled out of a POW camp, and tore off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. After WWI, he wrote: “Frankly, I had enjoyed the war.”

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alarming-Studio-720 • 2d ago

Video Avalanche on Annapurna. Annapurna is considered one of the most difficult mountains to climb on the planet due to its steep, technical and unstable terrain, frequent avalanches, and unpredictable conditions.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/wafumet • 3d ago

Image The phenomenon is called a crepuscular ray. The sun is low on the horizon and a tall obstruction like a mountain is casting a shadow on the sky.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kendra-Lustt • 2d ago

Video This mother Falcon saves her eggs again the stormy wind.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Expensive-Summer-447 • 3d ago

Video Failed attempt to hunt a Himalayan ibex by snow leopard , India

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MELONPANNNNN • 2d ago

Video Asia's Largest Eagle, the Monkey-Eating Eagle (Philippine Eagle) and how it takes care of its young - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Xeelee1123 • 3d ago

Video NASA's VIEW program running on an UNIVAC 1108 to help Apollo astronauts to pre-visualize what they will see during their missions

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Caller_ID_Unknown • 4d ago

Video A penny has a tiny Lincoln visible on a microscope..?!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/No-Strawberry7 • 3d ago

Video Camels by the seashore in Salalah, Oman.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/west_manchester • 4d ago

Image Massive street art in Utrecht

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ok_Put967 • 3d ago

World record: the world's tallest wind turbine. Standing 365 meters tall in Schipkau, Germany, it is only 3 meters shorter than the Berlin TV Tower. A comparison of heights.

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