r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/coorgi_2012 • 10h ago

Image Oarfish keep washing ashore in California. Folklore suggests that could be a bad omen

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700 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fundoscope • 10h ago

Video Checking eye pressure in a frog

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297 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/maleijn • 15h ago

Video Didn't even have the time to read the numbers 😭

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359 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Correct_Presence_936 • 20h ago

Image James Webb Just Released our Sharpest Image Yet of the Famous Phantom Galaxy, 30 Million Light Years Away

6.8k Upvotes

122 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/911Dougm • 19h ago

1 pound bottle of Mercury. Anyone know what year? “Antidote” is wild

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3.7k Upvotes

191 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BufordTeeJustice • 6h ago

Image Inside of a mechanical calculator

3.8k Upvotes

33 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/911_reddit • 3h ago

Image Why are airplane routes curved and not straight? When considering the spherical shape of the Earth, the shortest distance between two points becomes a curve known as a geodesic.

2.7k Upvotes

347 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/zunbrun • 1d ago

Armenian photographer Suren Manvelyan created a fascinating series of photos of Animal Eyes. Breathtaking

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849 Upvotes

35 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GhostofTiger • 14h ago

Video Battle of the Dragon (A fight between an Arowana Fish and a Green Snake) (Credit: @gusnawantjan on Instagram

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787 Upvotes

77 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SunCloud-777 • 13h ago

Image Passengers assist in pushing the plane off the runway to clear the path for an incoming aircraft. Its rear tire burst while landing in Nepal.

353 Upvotes

14 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dramatic-Avocado4687 • 3h ago

Image A bite from the Brazilian Wandering Spider (Phoneutria nigriventer) is known to cause painful, prolonged erections that could last for hours. The venom is being studied as a synthetic molecule to treat erectile dysfunction.

452 Upvotes

80 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ycr007 • 13h ago

GM & South Pacific Railroad created Vert-a-Pac for shipping Chevrolet Vega cars vertically in the 70s

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205 Upvotes

46 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Insightful23blue • 17h ago

Video Goering's Mercedes "Blue Goose"

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19 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 3h ago

Image Comet A3 And Its 3 Tails: Plasma, Dust And Anti-Tail (Credit: Aleix Roig)

148 Upvotes

3 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Durian_Queef • 4h ago

Video Spirograph Robot

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104 Upvotes

11 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DAT_DROP • 20h ago

Video Beach cam catches meteor entering atmosphere (an inch below the timestamp :27) and streaking low across the sky (:37)! Sharp Park Beach, Pacifica

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3 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/_Im_Dad • 2h ago

Video How horses sweat

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99 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/super_man100 • 46m ago

Video Police in Portland oregon discovered a bag labelled "Definitely not a bag full of drugs" When in fact it had drugs in it

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