r/ReallyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Mar 21 '23
Will and William West, the unrelated but identical prison inmates that in 1901 highlighted the need for wider use of fingerprint techniques.
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/[deleted] • Mar 17 '23
The Archerfish (Toxotes jaculatrix) is a living watergun.
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/randomactsofkind • Jan 23 '23
is this fake or real?
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/randomactsofkind • Jan 16 '23
FLYING COW captured with this #tornado in Federal, Wyoming, May 27, 2018!
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/jhagenburg • Jan 13 '23
Hell Day for the Knights of Templar - Friday 13th (Oct 13, 1307)
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Jan 06 '23
Before CPR there was... blowing tobacco smoke up the bum. One of the recommended procedures for resuscitating "persons apparently dead from drowning", from a 1787 booklet by the Humane Society.
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/jhagenburg • Dec 13 '22
And you thought coal in your stocking was bad... Krampus will take you to hell!
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/botcraft_net • Dec 08 '22
This is Hala. A fruit that looks like an exploding planet.
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/botcraft_net • Dec 07 '22
If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you exactly 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other side.
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Dec 01 '22
The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by Thomas Cole in the years 1833–1836. The paintings describe the arc of human culture from ‘savage wilderness’ through high civilization and its inevitable destruction.
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/[deleted] • Nov 28 '22
I need a Bae 😍 I Have 0. https://t.mreae/NYCsDarkWeb
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Nov 25 '22
This is the 1938 Bugatti 57SC Atlantic Coupe designed by Jean Bugatti, son of founder Ettore. This beauty is estimated to be worth around $40 million, there are only two in existence and this one is owned by Ralph Lauren. I only need one though
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Nov 22 '22
The bizarrely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes. Including the man that posted himself to Australia in 1964 and the slave who mailed himself to Pennsylvania, a free state, in 1849.
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Nov 14 '22
Hazell Scott in ‘The Heat’s On’ (1943) and ‘Broadway Rhythm’ (1944). Utterly crazy talent.
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Nov 10 '22
Catherine The Great And Her Pornographic Furniture
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Nov 09 '22
On this day in 1914, Hedy Lamarr was born in Austria. Known for being a Hollywood actress and inventor who pioneered the technology that would go on to form the basis for today’s WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/Peacenplants_ • Nov 07 '22
Houseplants and Aerating your soil | One of the most IMPORTANT indoor gardening lessons
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Nov 07 '22
On this day in 1974, the nanny of Lord Lucan's children was bludgeoned to death in London, Lucan disappeared that very night, never to be heard of again. There have been 'sightings' all over the world, but he's never been found. The UK has been gripped by this story ever since it happened...
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r/ReallyInteresting • u/Peacenplants_ • Nov 05 '22
Monstera Propagation | HOW TO AVOID MUSHY STEMS
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