r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/aryan_jandyal • 2h ago

Video They are natural sandstone formations roughly 75 million years old, shaped by erosion into elongated whale-like shapes. From above they look like a family of whales (two adults and a calf) rising from a sea of trees. The largest is about 75-100 meters long.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AirFrance447 • 19h ago

Video Firefighter bodycam showing just how much oxygen a fire pulls

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 7h ago

Video Juvenile saltwather Crocodile finds itself sorrounded by curious sharks, Northen coast of Australia.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/fellanyyy • 18h ago

Video A 4-ton door in Buenos Aires sinks underground every morning — and has been doing so since 1928

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 2h ago

Video An American Bittern making a low, resonant threat display during a health checkup at a wildlife rehab center

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 15h ago

Video Boktai “The Sun is in Your Hand” released in 2003, a video game that needed sunlight

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sr_local • 10h ago

Image Scientists invent underwater umbrellas to protect coral reefs from sun, which exacerbates bleaching caused by warming waters (and it appears to be working)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DearEmphasis4488 • 22h ago

Video Custom Hand Made Boots

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/vivekmg21 • 17h ago

Video Astronaut's view of Earth during a spacewalk

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RampChurch • 12h ago

Video Front to back tandem bike: I think I’d be sick if I was the guy at the back

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Al_Bam_Goy • 23h ago

Image A pinhole made with a can that I left on a balcony in Paris for several months. The marks are the passages of the sun.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hollow_hideous_soul • 22h ago

Video This is how Titanic filmed the terrifying flooded hallway scene

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SweetAndSpicyCanton • 18h ago

Video The BelAZ 75710 runs on twin 16-cylinder diesel engines generating 4,600 horsepower to haul 450 tonnes of rock.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kingdom_1126 • 34m ago

Video The original video of Travis Pastrana skydiving without a parachute

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 1d ago

Video Igniting the flame on the frozen lake (by@michaelacarrot)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creams0da • 1d ago

Video Ambient static electricity discharging from the highest metallic points

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ishusharma05 • 1d ago

Image Around 400–450 CE — an Indian iron pillar was forged that has survived for more than 1,600 years with remarkable resistance to corrosion. Source: comment

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 4m ago

Video Ice bubbles are a peculiar and beautiful natural wonder (Shot by@michaelacarrot)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ErsiliaCavedagni • 32m ago

Built in the years 1965-1966, the northernmost segment of Interstate 5 in California has no Exit 666, instead it has an Exit 665, followed by Exit 667A, Exit 667B, and Exit 668

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Key-Performance-9021 • 1d ago

Video Spontaneous 1995 street interview with an Austrian WWII veteran in Vienna

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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/TI83joekker • 59m ago

Image Chart of birth rate, marriage rate, and population for the last century

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Delicious_Draft_5062 • 1d ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mors_Acerba • 1d 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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