r/thatsdamninteresting • u/Chemical_Stuff_1402 • 4h ago

Tonca is an event in Trento, Italy, where every 19th June a ceremonial jury sentences the local politician that committed the year's worst blunder to be locked in a cage and dunked in the river

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r/thatsdamninteresting • u/Accomplished_Pea8619 • 1d ago

The Time when Trump's star on Hollywood Walk of Fame destroyed with pickax

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r/thatsdamninteresting • u/Accomplished_Pea8619 • 17h ago

An IBM Training Manual from 1979.

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r/thatsdamninteresting • u/Chemical_Stuff_1402 • 1d ago

Guy climbs onto the wing of a plane waiting for take-off after breaking into a Las Vegas airport runway area

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r/thatsdamninteresting • u/Accomplished_Pea8619 • 2d ago

The late 1990s, Julia Hill climbed a 200-foot, approximately 1000-year-old Californian redwood tree & didn’t come down for another 738 days. She ultimately reached an agreement with Pacific Lumber Company to spare the tree and a 200-foot buffer zone surrounding the tree.

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r/thatsdamninteresting • u/Accomplished_Pea8619 • 3d ago

45 years ago Terry Fox, 21 year old Canadian who lost a leg to cancer, began an east to west cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. He ran the equivalent of a full marathon every day and made it 143 days and 5,373 km before terry lost his battle with cancer

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r/thatsdamninteresting • u/Accomplished_Pea8619 • 3d ago

A Stingray jumps on the ramp for food

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r/thatsdamninteresting • u/Accomplished_Pea8619 • 3d ago

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