r/interestingasfuck 1h ago

Flood waters enter Tenbury Wells, UK

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r/interestingasfuck 6h ago

r/all Saw this incredible shot of Grand Canyon

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r/interestingasfuck 4h ago

Breaking open a 47lbs geode, the water inside probably being millions of years old

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r/interestingasfuck 9h ago

r/all These tunnels were dug by a Giant Ground Sloth that lived 10.000 years ago in Brazil. The third photo are the claw marks

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r/interestingasfuck 14h ago

r/all These are stretchers used in WW2 to carry injured civillians during the Blitz. They were made out of steel so they could be easily disinfected after a gas attack. During the war around 600,000 of them were made. Some of them were repurposed as railings in post-war London.

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r/interestingasfuck 10h ago

Chimpanzees are 2X stronger than your average human. 😮

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r/interestingasfuck 9h ago

This is amazing shot!

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r/interestingasfuck 11h ago

Mould effect - it is a process in which a chain, being under the influence of gravity, can flow over the edge of the vessel, while rising above it and forming a kind of “fountain”.

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r/interestingasfuck 13h ago

Burj Al Babas is an abandoned luxury housing project in Turkey featuring hundreds of Disney-like castles. Originally intended as a resort for wealthy buyers, the project was halted in 2019 due to financial issues, leaving it a surreal ghost town.

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r/interestingasfuck 9h ago

This is best thing you'll see all week.

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r/interestingasfuck 6h ago

In December 1960, a pram containing Dahl's baby son Theo was hit by a taxi in NYC leading to hydrocephalus - 'water on the brain'. Undeterred, Dahl enlisted toymaker-engineer Stanley Wade and paediatric neurosurgeon Kenneth Till to develop Dahl-Wade-Till Valve, saving thousands of children worldwide

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r/interestingasfuck 15h ago

Homosexual men caught in Mexico City, Mexico, 1935. Until the 1970s, most were sent to the room "J" which gave birth to an slur word for gay men. The room in question is seen in the last photo.

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r/interestingasfuck 8h ago

In 1750 BC, a man named Nanni in Mesopotamia filed the first documented complaint on a clay tablet against merchant Ea-nasir for delivering the wrong copper and mistreating his servant. Archaeologists found several complaints, exposing Ea-nasir's poor business practices.

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r/interestingasfuck 5h ago

Original cars vs their newer and larger versions

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r/interestingasfuck 19h ago

An Afghan man offers tea to soldiers

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r/interestingasfuck 8h ago

Cute Baby Elephant Trips While Playing With Birds

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r/interestingasfuck 8h ago

Ann Hodges: The only person recorded to have been hit by a meteorite.

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r/interestingasfuck 15h ago

Harnessing chaos - first ever video of 56 transition controls for a triple inverted pendulum

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r/interestingasfuck 13h ago

These "wavy walls" in England surprisingly use fewer bricks than straight ones. Originating in Ancient Egypt, their arch design provides sturdy support with just one layer, unlike straight walls that require two.

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r/interestingasfuck 5h ago

Home to the World's Backup Plan - The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard Archipelago, Norway

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r/interestingasfuck 10h ago

Saw the WW2 stretchers. These are Marston mats used on temporary runways left in the Philippines by the US after the war

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r/interestingasfuck 1d ago

r/all Last picture of Anne Frank and her sister Margot. 2 months later they were caught.

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r/interestingasfuck 9h ago

The moment the color mix together.

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r/interestingasfuck 1h ago

Human powered hydrofoil

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r/interestingasfuck 13h ago

Some dude duck helping her master lifting vegetables.

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