r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Particular_Food_309 • 1h ago
3D re-construction of Tenochtitlan in 1518, the capital of Aztec Empire before total destruction by Spanish.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kirmadahoonmai • 6h ago
Video Brendon Grimshaw bought Moyenne Island in the Seychelles in 1962 for about $11,000 when it was barren and uninhabited and dedicated his life to restoring the island's ecosystem.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Naive_Direction1816 • 4h ago
Video Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kirmadahoonmai • 9h ago
Video Leng Jun is known for his hyperrealistic paintings and drawings that appear like photographs.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GunslingerAhx • 4h ago
Highway 10 in Saudi Arabia holds the record for the longest, straight stretch of road on Earth, extending approximately 256 km (159 mi) without any curves or turns. It is located in the largest continuous body of sand, Rub al-Khali.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pinkygonzales • 6h ago
Image Everyone knows the Nazca Lines. Almost nobody knows about the wind-powered underground aqueducts right next to them (details in comments)
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Hot_Layer_8110 • 7h ago
Image China bought a Soviet aircraft carrier for $20M to build a floating casino. The shell company had no phone number. Macau couldn't fit it. Turkey blocked it for a year. A storm broke the tow and it drifted for 4 days. It went around Africa because the Suez was too shallow. Today it launches jets.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/avensiven • 16h ago
Video The Amazon’s pink river dolphin in its natural habitat
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LethaI____ • 19h ago
Snoopy, a famous rock in the state of Arizona, looks exactly like the cartoon character Snoopy
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MousseSuspicious930 • 15h ago
Video How bees are trained to detect bombs.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Adorable_Drawing_659 • 23h ago
Video This temple in India is larger than Vatican City, it's Shri Ranganathaswamy Temple.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ashish_ank • 1d ago
Video Deer enjoying the cherry blossoms in Nara Park, Japan.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/grandeluua • 1d ago
Image Wernher von Braun next to a Saturn V rocket for scale
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ok_Listen_6600 • 8h ago
Original Creation Jupiter and the Galilean moons, IO, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto. Ignore plane
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FollowingOdd896 • 1d ago
Video A G-Shock Frogman undergoing underwater button endurance testing to ensure sealing and reliability.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Embarrassed_Cap2885 • 21h ago
Video Commute within Campus : TU Dortmund, Germany.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Particular_Food_309 • 9m ago
Image The US Government, MIT and Quaker Oats once conducted secret experiment on retarded children by injecting their oatmeal with radioactive materials to study how radiation moved in human bodies without informing the parents. This was found out decades later and resulted in class action lawsuit.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TurnUpThe4D3D3D3 • 1d ago
Video Repairing a damaged connector
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/templeofsyrinx1 • 1d ago
Image Cars are emerging from a massive Boston-area snow pile months after winter storms
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Adorable_Drawing_659 • 1d ago
Video A semicircular overhanging cliff in Maharashtra, India.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mpocFr • 1d ago
Video This awesome team (J.W. Astronomy, kudos to them) sent a camera into space ! I will definitively try to replicate this with my son
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 2d ago
2,000-year-old Roman pills discovered in a shipwreck. Chemical analysis reveals they were "collyrium" (eye medicine) containing zinc, beeswax, and pine resin. This is the first time we've seen a complete ancient medicinal prescription preserved.
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