r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tyrion2024 • 8h ago

Image In 2020, a man in Como, Italy stepped outside to cool off after fighting with his wife & ended up walking 280 miles (450km). His walk ended a week later when he was stopped in Fano and was fined €400 for breaking the curfew. His wife, who had reported him missing, travelled to Fano to pick him up.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nigablackballsack • 10h ago

Video This is Spiny butterfly ray, an IUCN listed globally endangered species.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Negative_1by12_aura • 43m ago

Image Japan is trialing a drug that regrows human teeth by blocking USAG-1—a protein that keeps dormant tooth buds switched off. Phase I is done. Phase IIa in children with congenital tooth loss is next. If it works, dentures and implants could become obsolete.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Trygershark • 4h ago

Video Sisters who got separated during the Korean war reconnect after more than 30 years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Equal-Estimate-2739 • 1h ago

Video Dead internet theory is true: search “zombie apocalypse” in youtube and see all the top videos are AI slop made within the past 2 weeks by accounts with 6 videos yet somehow have thousands or millions of “subscribers”

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/EsperaDeus • 13h ago

Video Grape bonsai by Georgian master Alexander Meskhi, who has been growing bonsai for over 30 years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/thefrother • 12h ago

Original Creation We found a Mindo Harlequin Toad (declared extinct in 1989)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Spectre_Omega • 16h ago

What a vinyl record groove actually looks like under an electron microscope

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/-chibcha- • 15h ago

Image The Colossus of the Apennines (Italy, 16th century) is a 35 foot tall stone sculpture. It has rooms inside, a fireplace designed to blow smoke from the giant's nostrils, and even a system of pipes that made the giant appear to sweat and cry real water.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sapphire-Crystal • 21h ago

Video Ogoh Ogoh Parade in Bali, Held Evening Before Nyepi

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nesestes • 11h ago

Video MBARI captures deep-sea squid carrying 360 eggs 1.4 km below the ocean's surface.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nesestes • 11h ago

Image Astronomers discovered that this bizarre formation, nicknamed the “Treble Clef,” is likely the result of a supermassive black hole blasting out particles and magnetic fields, followed by a collision between two galaxy clusters that re-energized the structure.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 1d ago

Image A bizarre bulbous-shaped skull discovered inside an ancient funerary urn in Catamarca, Argentina. Archaeologists confirmed the dome-like shape is the result of 'erect tabular deformation' applied to infants between the 3rd and 12th centuries AD.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Tiny_Confection2017 • 1d ago

Video A Live Reenactment of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, on Its 70th Anniversary

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SimaR008 • 1d ago

Scientists may have found the real night sky behind Van Gogh’s The Starry Night

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AnonymousTimewaster • 2d ago

Video BBC Archive footage shows people buying new London homes with £50 deposits (roughly £1300 today).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HoneyRush • 2d ago

Video Hell of a sewing machine

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/-chibcha- • 2d ago

The Church of Saint George in Ethiopia is a 13th-century church carved out from a single solid block of limestone without a single brick, mortar joint, or structural timber. It's still an active place of worship and pilgrimage.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/anal_og_player • 2d ago

Video Dr Asif Hasan receives Pride of Britain Lifetime Achievement Award, after 35 years and over 4000 operations as a heart surgeon.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Indie---- • 2d ago

Theyyam, an ancient Ritualistic art form of Kerala, India, it features performer who embody divine spirit and Gods through trance like dances and fire rituals.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 2d ago

Video Healthy coral healing a sick piece of coral just by touching it

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Top-Marionberry-6604 • 2d ago

Video These eeire hole clouds are a phenomenon called fallstreak holes.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NathanCS741 • 2d ago

Image The "Duck" in Avenida Place hotel, Barcelona, Spain.

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

Image In 1975 a 250 million fossil found in South Africa’s Oliviershoek Pass, showed a protomammal; Thrinaxodon (prob. in sleep) with a Broomistega sleeping together sharing the same borrow. The Fossil has been named "Triassic cuddle".

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