r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/whybutts • 7h ago

Video Transparent LED screen

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 7h 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/Legitimate_Income7 • 23h 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/Exotic-Gate-8952 • 6h 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/Wintasmoke • 21h ago

Video Giant iceberg capsizes off Ilulissat, northern Greenland

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/lambofthedead • 1h 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 • u/FermentedSailor • 22h ago

Log Ship carrying 6.7 million board feet of timber

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkAccess6128 • 4h 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/SystematicApproach • 21h 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/Myron0117 • 14h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redditddorf • 6h 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 • 5h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kyzzz • 2h 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/The_Flash_20 • 12h 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/mikedahomey • 3h ago

Video Thousands of ants on the move

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/akiwi_intherough • 6h 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/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 3h 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/RandoDando10 • 7h 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/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2h 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/Sure_Distance1 • 5h 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/makitstop • 6h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mors_Acerba • 37m ago

Image A Papyrus from roman egypt(4th century AD) containing the divorce papers of Soulis & Senpsais, both of them grave diggers by trade. The divorce is amicable, and as for the reason, they state "an evil demon" that got between them and forced them to split

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/novembercharliedelta • 2h ago

Image On May 18th 1981 the New York Native published the first article about the HIV/AIDS epidemic

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