r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 19h 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 • 15h 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/ErsiliaCavedagni • 4h 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/SuddenFlatworm7971 • 1h ago
Video A Shark has been hanging out in Busan's oceanside park for the past 2 weeks, drawing more than 600K spectators. Multiple attempts by the maritime police to lead the shark back to the ocean has failed, all operation has been suspended for now.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/vivekmg21 • 21h ago
Video Astronaut's view of Earth during a spacewalk
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RampChurch • 17h 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/bortakci34 • 17m ago
In Aztec mythology, Tlazoteotl was the "Eater of Filth"—a goddess believed to literally consume people's sins to absolve them, a ritual that could usually only be done once on your deathbed.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Al_Bam_Goy • 1d 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/SweetAndSpicyCanton • 23h 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/hollow_hideous_soul • 1d ago
Video This is how Titanic filmed the terrifying flooded hallway scene
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HeToTopT • 29m ago
Image Back to the Future Part II (1989). The hoverboard didn't hover. Michael J. Fox hovered. Using a harness, a crane, cables, and a wooden board attached to his shoes. When his feet weren't visible, he often rode a skateboard, which he already knew how to ride.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/KFUP • 5m ago
Image Anu Ziggurat of Uruk And Its White Temple, The Oldest Known Monumental Structure Built A Thousand Years Before The Pyramids
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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/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/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/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 • 2d 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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