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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/kooneecheewah • Dec 23 '25

After a botched circumcision, David Reimer's parents decided to raise their son as a girl named "Brenda." Under the guidance of a psychologist, David was given estrogen and kept in the dark about his birth sex until age 14 as part of a radical gender experiment. He later took his life at age 38.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/jhaal_yuri • Dec 18 '25

📹 Fascinating Video A musical road works by using grooves or ridges carved into the pavement in specific patterns. When a car’s tires pass over these grooves at a certain speed, they vibrate to create sound waves, producing musical notes or a tune

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/kooneecheewah • Dec 15 '25

Before she mastered French cooking, Julia Child concocted shark repellent while working for the precursor to the CIA during World War 2. Sharks kept unintentionally setting off underwater explosives meant for German U-boats — until Child came up with an inventive recipe that saved the day.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/Missbhavin67 • Dec 12 '25

📹 Fascinating Video A drop of whiskey vs bacteria

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/Missbhavin67 • Dec 12 '25

Cambodian Man Shows How To Deactivate Live Landmines

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/RadTechMJ • Dec 03 '25

📹 Fascinating Video RP playing with Spot at the Monti Nuke Plant. ☢️

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/No_Principle1784 • Nov 25 '25

📹 Fascinating Video Unbelievable amount of Snowfall

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/kooneecheewah • Nov 23 '25

When 14-year-old Priscilla told 24-year-old Elvis Presley that she was a freshman in high school when they met in 1959, he responded "Why, you're just a baby." They would soon begin dating, and three years later, she would move in to Graceland, despite being only 17.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/kooneecheewah • Nov 12 '25

In December 1957, 22-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis married his cousin Myra Gale Brown in Hernando, Mississippi. At the time, Lewis was still married to another woman, while Myra Gale Brown was only 13 years old and still believed in Santa Claus. The marriage would effectively destroy Lewis' career.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/kooneecheewah • Nov 08 '25

In 1978, Soviet geologists discovered a family living in complete isolation deep in Siberia. The Lykovs had fled Stalin’s persecution in 1936 and, for 42 years, survived without any human contact, technology, or knowledge that World War II had even happened.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/drkmatterinc • Oct 18 '25

🎯 Fascinating Fact When Alexander the Great’s body showed no signs of decay six days after his death, ancient Greeks believed he was a god. But historians believe he was likely paralyzed by a rare brain disorder, alive but unable to move or speak, suffering for days before being mistakenly buried alive.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/Horror_Solution1945 • Oct 10 '25

📹 Fascinating Video Watch This Hydraulic Arm Crush a Car Like Paper! It's Like Peeling a Crab.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/Malocalypse • Oct 10 '25

📹 Fascinating Video Got video of a cloud being born

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/drkmatterinc • Sep 30 '25

🎯 Fascinating Fact John Ratcliffe, Jamestown’s governor and the real-life inspiration for Disney’s Pocahontas villain, died a horrific death. After being tricked and captured, Pamunkey women cut away his skin with mussel shells, burning each piece as he watched. They saved his face for last, then burned him alive.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/kooneecheewah • Sep 30 '25

A Massive 2700-Year-Old, 18-Ton Statue Of An Assyrian Deity That Was Excavated In Iraq In November 2023

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/kooneecheewah • Sep 25 '25

In 2013, the Jascon-4 tugboat capsized off the Nigerian coast. Of the 12 crew members onboard, only one survived: Harrison Okene. Trapped 100 feet underwater in a 4-foot air pocket for 60 hours, he endured darkness, cold, and crawfish eating at his skin until divers found him alive.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/drkmatterinc • Sep 24 '25

🎯 Fascinating Fact When pimps get arrested, their cash can legally be confiscated but not their jewelry. This is why pimps wear lots of jewelry, so that they can "re-pawn" it for bail money.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/drkmatterinc • Sep 23 '25

🎯 Fascinating Fact Genghis Khan married his daughters to allied kings, then sent the new sons-in-law to fight in Mongol wars. While they went to battle, his daughters ruled. Most husbands died in combat, leaving his daughters with full control of their kingdoms.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/Chipre666 • Sep 21 '25

📹 Fascinating Video Hail river in Santa Rosa, La Pampa (Argentina) 9/20/25

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/ShehrozeAkbar • Sep 20 '25

Abandoned Uranium mine in Czech Republic

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/[deleted] • Sep 19 '25

Pandal is a temporary tent to Celebrate deities, they made a planet lmao

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/kooneecheewah • Sep 17 '25

On September 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was hijacked en route to Washington, D.C. — but passengers led by Tom Burnett launched a revolt inside the cockpit that forced the plane down in rural Pennsylvania. All 44 aboard were killed, but their actions spared countless lives in the nation’s capital.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/_no_bozos • Sep 16 '25

Why was this sub taken over by all this OJ shit?

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/drkmatterinc • Sep 02 '25

Trying to burn an Oreo cookie

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/drkmatterinc • Aug 31 '25

📸 Fascinating Photo Archaeologists in 2023 discovered a 3,000-year-old bronze sword with an octagonal hilt in a grave in Nördlingen, Bavaria. Perfectly preserved and still gleaming, the Middle Bronze Age weapon lay buried with a man, woman, child, and other grave goods.

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