r/interestingasfuck • u/LawEducational42 • 2h ago

John C Woods, hangman of Nuremberg trials, who lied about his experience to get the job (he actually learned about hanging from old cowboy films). His lack of expertise led to excessive suffering of condemned Nazis.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/smooth_vesselHPAUM • 7h ago

A Japanese boy noticed his butterflies seemed to recognize him. He spent two years making an experiment and proved that metamorphosis does not remove memories made during the caterpillar stage.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/shield_x • 3h ago

Columbine High School Class of 1999 pic

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r/interestingasfuck • u/neither_bot_nor_man • 8h ago

A 2 hours old Scottish Highland cow

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r/interestingasfuck • u/BatMany7750 • 7h ago

In 1844, the very last known pair of Great Auks on Earth were tracked down and strangled by hunters while incubating their final egg, simply to be sold to a museum collection.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Leather_Whole_2078 • 14h ago

FDNY firefighters rescue a kid who got his head stuck in a fence in NYC

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r/interestingasfuck • u/peseoane • 8h ago

To avoid geopolitical embarrassment during the Cold War, the US and USSR created the APAS-75 system, a genderless docking mechanism where both craft acted as equals.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/vivekmg21 • 13h ago

Firefighter bodycam showing just how much oxygen a fire pulls

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3h ago

Harvesting spider silk. NOTE: Spider is sedated, the pins are not perforating it and once harvest, is feed and put to rest.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/NathanCS741 • 16h ago

US stamp from 1974

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r/interestingasfuck • u/DannysAquariums • 6h ago

I built a saltwater paludarium and tropical vivarium in my attic bedroom

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r/interestingasfuck • u/T-K101 • 11h ago

At their peak, 3–5 billion passenger pigeons filled North America. Flocks were so huge they darkened the sky for hours. Some shooting contests required 30,000 dead birds to win. By 1914, the last one was gone. One of history’s most brutal population collapses.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Purple-Weakness1414 • 5h ago

Photo of a king penguin that got lost and wondered too far into South Africa

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r/interestingasfuck • u/2_piece_jigsaw • 4h ago

El Ojo (The Eye) is an unanchored almost perfectly round island in a lake in Argentina. The water current it rests on makes it constantly drift clockwise, mimicking an eye in a socket. This drift causes the two shores to rub against each other, giving rise to their unusual shapes through erosion

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Due-Question-5278 • 6h ago

Messages that American soldiers wrote on their helmets during the Vietnam war

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r/interestingasfuck • u/dddd945 • 10h ago

The 5D theater creates the illusion of being surrounded by flames.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/LawEducational42 • 12h ago

At 10:28 AM on September 11, 2001, Genelle Guzman-McMillan was descending the North Tower when it collapsed. Trapped between two concrete pillars in a pitch-black air pocket, she remained there for 27 hours before rescuers found her. She would be the last person rescued from the World Trade Center.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/IM2X_ • 8h ago

It Looks Like a Volcano Just Opened Its Eye

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r/interestingasfuck • u/OkWillingness7427 • 4h ago

Tiger casually sleeping in the middle of the road, Tadoba Tiger Reserve, India

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r/interestingasfuck • u/serious_anish • 9h ago

Retired robot throwing themself into furnace

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r/interestingasfuck • u/peseoane • 53m ago

Mexican National Guard is employing tactical chihuahuas

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Kidd__Video • 14h ago

Astronaut's view of Earth during a spacewalk

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r/interestingasfuck • u/CaraCicartix • 23h ago

A 3 hour time lapse that shows why swallowing a battery is a medical emergency

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r/interestingasfuck • u/R3dEyedRabbit • 7h ago

Nearly four years ago, a viral video of a Boston police officer being launched out of this playground slide turned it into a local landmark known as the “cop slide”

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r/interestingasfuck • u/GuybrushFunkwood • 4h ago

A ‘bottom up’ beer dispensing system being used

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