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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Crazy__Donkey • 5h ago

Video In 1966, the paleontologist David Raup discovered that tweaking just 3 parameters can generate almost every shell, horn, and tusk in nature

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BrickWide1854 • 7h ago

Video Silver Swan Automaton… no motors, built in 1773 and still working perfectly. powered entirely by mainsprings and brass clockwork gears.

4.7k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 9h ago

Built in the 1770s for Catherine the Great, the Peacock Clock is the only surviving large-scale 18th-century automaton in the world that still works today.

2.6k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mvincen95 • 18h ago

In 2019, 44-year-old photographer Victoria Schafer was killed by a falling log at Hocking Hills State Park. Investigators soon discovered two teenagers pushed the 74-pound branch off the cliff above.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/jgzogaib • 5h ago

Image A 2,300-year-old gilded silver plaque found in Afghanistan blending ancient Greek gods (Nike and Helios) with Near Eastern symbols, 3rd century BCE

325 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Main_Locksmith_2543 • 16h ago

Image Patient with Madelung’s disease (Benign Symmetric Lipomatosis), a rare condition causing extensive, symmetrical fat deposits in the head, neck, and shoulder area NSFW

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccountEngineer • 19h ago

Video A spaceship just went around the Earth 14 times, suicide glided itself back to the launch tower and was caught by two mechanical arms by said launch tower. History has been made.

2.6k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/-chibcha- • 18h ago

The 233-foot Giant Buddha of Leshan was carved into a cliff in China over 90 years and completed in 803 AD. It’s the world's largest stone-carved Buddha and was once the tallest statue on Earth.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RampChurch • 1d ago

Video Quickly laying down a uniform curb

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 20h ago

in 1759 Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray began a campaing to educate "midwives" and surgeons with basic skills to deliver babies. To do this, she created a realistic birthing mannequin.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/troppetitequeue • 1h ago

Video A “cloud waterfall“ captured this week

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Reddit-runner • 19h ago

Video Real space ship returning to earth! No AI. 50 meter long, 120 tons heavy. Starship 42 from Flight 15.

1.1k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nikulmmadhu • 20h ago

Video Musical pillars at the Shantinatha Jain Temple in halebidu, Karnataka, India.

859 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mors_Acerba • 5h ago

Image Letter from the secretary of the chancellery of Florence in 1512. It opens up with "this letter is just for good practice, since we have nothing to write about". The scribe used the wrong signature, believed to be "a small act of defiance" against his boss who made him draft frivolous mail

44 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Due_Yesterday_2850 • 21h ago

Image William Johnston was a 13 year old drummer boy in Company D of the 3rd Vermont Infantry during the American Civil War during the Seven Days Battles, he is also currently the youngest medal of honor winner.

503 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Jaxxy_Bunny5300 • 1d ago

Video Starship booster exploded before hitting the water after an aborted catch attempt

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/beaugasm • 23h ago

MV Miranda Guinness - A Tanker built in 1976 solely to carry Guinness. Capable of carrying about 2 million pints of beer!

345 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/jrralls • 1d ago

Image A man trying to get his old job back 2,700 years ago complained about three unanswered letters. The letter containing his complaint was found unopened.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sindigo_ • 1d ago

Video Mining Quarry collapse in Makrana, India

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/desertgodfather • 19h ago

Video Saudi researcher Dr. Eid Al-Yahya presents a rock engraving he identifies as an okapi, an animal found today only in the Congo .

115 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/myrmekochoria • 2d ago

Image Lyre made out of human skull with antelope horns, Africa 19th c.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/YsalynKeepsakes • 1d ago

Image James Cook University researcher Matthew Connors has discovered two new praying mantis species with the help of citizen scientists.

645 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/onehedgeman • 1d ago

Video Ants work together to build a castle of leaves

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/shreksmamma • 23h ago

Image A 20-foot-tall bamboo and cloth headgear worn in Neeliyar Bhagavathi Theyyam, a centuries-old Hindu ritual tradition in Kannur, Kerala, India.

47 Upvotes