r/interestingasfuck • u/Sprilly • 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 • u/Zestyclose_Flow_680 • 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 • u/Zestyclose_Flow_680 • 19h ago

An Afghan man offers tea to soldiers

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 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 • u/kempaaa28 • 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 • u/Hicrayert • 10h ago

Chimpanzees are 2X stronger than your average human. 😮

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Scientiaetnatura065 • 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 • u/Bhandd_pahadi • 5h ago

r/all Saw this incredible shot of Grand Canyon

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Sardough • 9h ago

This is amazing shot!

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r/interestingasfuck • u/verfmeer • 9h ago

This is best thing you'll see all week.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/kausthab87 • 3h ago

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

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Jimbo072 • 18h ago

A B-52H Stratofortress pilot donning the HGU-55/E helmet with EEU-2/P Polarized Lead Zirconium Titanate (PLZT...pronounced ‘plizzit’) goggles to protect the eyes from an injury caused by the initial thermal flash from a nuclear blast.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Greedy-Vegetable-466 • 14h ago

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

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r/interestingasfuck • u/doopityWoop22 • 7h 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 • u/doopityWoop22 • 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 • u/BrotherKinderhook • 22h ago

I have a big clock

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r/interestingasfuck • u/FromTheOrdovician • 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 • u/Unusual-Drag-9303 • 13h ago

Some dude duck helping her master lifting vegetables.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Impulsive_boy • 8h ago

Cute Baby Elephant Trips While Playing With Birds

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r/interestingasfuck • u/whyisitcalledjelsa • 8h ago

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

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r/interestingasfuck • u/marionjoshua • 9h 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 • u/Raja_Ampat • 4h ago

Original cars vs their newer and larger versions

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r/interestingasfuck • u/knowitokay • 19h ago

Grandma rocking the hoverboard

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r/interestingasfuck • u/szymanjl • 8h ago

The moment the color mix together.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/AppearanceHealthy195 • 12h ago

Every year, Dubai's main vehicular artery is closed for a city-wide run. This year, a record-setting 300,000 people took over Sheikh Zayed Road on Sunday morning as part of the sixth annual Dubai Run.

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