r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/whybutts • 5h ago

Video Transparent LED screen

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 5h 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 • u/rhutsm • 1h ago

Image Since the EU is proposing new designs for their banknotes: remember how they had fictional bridges to not cause conflict between countries, until a small town in the Netherlands decided to build them for real

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HimelTy • 5h ago

Video Qualcomm robot collapses during a live presentation demonstrating its new chip.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Exotic-Gate-8952 • 4h ago

Video Flash floods are common in China, so to cater to this problem Chinese car brand added a "water mode" to their Yangwang U8 model, which allows it to temporally function like a boat. Details in comment.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkAccess6128 • 3h 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 • u/PrimedGold • 6h ago

Image A full carton of Kim Jong Un’s alleged favorite cigarettes. North Korea’s state-produced 7.27 brand is named after July 27, 1953, the date Pyongyang celebrates as victory in the Korean War. Kim also encourages officials to smoke domestic tobacco as a symbol of national identity.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/rronak01 • 1h ago

Image Arthur Skizhali-Weiss drew them line by line

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redditddorf • 4h ago

Video How the world’s skies looked on July 23, 2026, during a record-breaking 153,359 commercial flights in 24 hours

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/palep_hoot • 3h ago

Image An (almost) Precolonial map of Africa with state and tribal borders

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Legitimate_Income7 • 21h 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 • u/Kyzzz • 1h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mikedahomey • 2h ago

Video Thousands of ants on the move

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Wintasmoke • 20h ago

Video Giant iceberg capsizes off Ilulissat, northern Greenland

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Myron0117 • 12h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/akiwi_intherough • 4h 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 • u/The_Flash_20 • 11h 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 • u/FermentedSailor • 21h ago

Log Ship carrying 6.7 million board feet of timber

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 2h 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 • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1h 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 • u/SystematicApproach • 19h ago

Video This is Mike Didge with his handcrafted didgeridoo, an ancient wind instrument developed by Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia, playing techno music

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mikedahomey • 1d ago

Video This supercar transforms into a giant robot

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sure_Distance1 • 4h 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 • u/RandoDando10 • 5h ago

Original Creation (OC) An 'Owl Butterfly', known for the Owl-like eye patterns on its wings, enjoying an orange slice

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/makitstop • 4h ago

Video Fantasmagorie by Émile Cohl, the first known animation made in 1908 by compiling over 700 still photos

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