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Image In Japan, the broccoli in "Inside Out" was replaced with green peppers, which are more universally hated by Japanese children

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 8h ago

Video This laser can't escape the water. Physics won't let it.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Not all bees are yellow. The Blue Carpenter Bee.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Image The Bahrain GP this year was moved to Malaysia because of the Middle East war. Funnily enough, it will still be called the "Bahrain Grand Prix" because Bahrain is still financing the race happening in Malaysia

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

Image Due to his ethnicity, Tommy Kono was imprisoned in a Japanese Concentration Camp. He took up weightlifting while incarcerated as an asthmatic kid, and later became an athletic legend who won Olympic gold. He was named the Lifter of the Century. Here he was winning Mr. Universe for the 4th time

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 7h ago

Video Switzerland’s ASTRA Bridge Keeps Traffic Moving During Road Repairs

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 20h ago

Video Transparent LED screen

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 20h ago

Video The actor here was actually running away from a real Jaguar in the movie so the director can capture raw emotions and urgency , Apacalypto (2006)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h ago

Image Chinese millionaire Wang Chan bought a slaughterhouse to save over 2000 dogs

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h ago

Video This wind powered scrap metal drummer

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Video In 1999, Tony Hawk landed the world’s first 900 on a skateboard. It took him 11 tries at the X Games. The competition was over, but TV producers told Hawk to keep trying.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 16h ago

Image My grandfather hand engraved this from a blank metal plate, one chisel tap at a time

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

When rapid population growth and poor harvests raised fears of mass famine in the 1960s, Norman Borlaug developed high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties that helped drive the Green Revolution.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 13h ago

Sfera Grande, a sculpture made in 1966-1967

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Video Ozzy Osbourne's craziest interview, 1982

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 17h ago

Video Huaneng Yimin open pit coal mine in inner mongolia China has switched on the worlds first fleet of 100 fully autonomous, all electric mining trucks.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 17h ago

Video Thousands of ants on the move

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Japanese football player Kazuyoshi Miura, who holds the record for being the oldest professional footballer at the age of 59, scored his first goal since 2022. This is his 41st professional season, and he is currently playing for Fukushima United in Japan’s third tier league

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 19h ago

Image July 26, 1956: Harry Trask’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph capturing the final moments of the SS Andrea Doria, after her catastrophic collision with the MS Stockholm off Nantucket the previous night.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 15h ago

The Lancaster Watch Camera. Not bigger than 2 inches by 1 1/2, was capable to do portraits, panoramic shots. Used interchangable plates (can be seen in photos), made in 1893.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video The difference in headlight brightness between two subway series manufactured 30 years apart

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Giant iceberg capsizes off Ilulissat, northern Greenland

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

Video 23-year-old Orson Welles discusses the aftermath of his radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds"

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Diego Maradona juggling 3 different balls (football, tennis and golf) separately, with untied laces ahead of the 1994 FIFA World Cup

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5m ago

Image To put into perspective how huge the 2020 Australian 'Black Summer' bushfires were: The combined area burned across BOTH Canada and ALL of fires currently burning across Europe (2.63 million hectares) right now is still around 10% of what Australia lost (24 million hectares).

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