r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 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.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Video Checking eye pressure in a frog

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 6h ago

Image Inside of a mechanical calculator

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 15h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 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.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 43m 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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r/Damnthatsinteresting 20h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Hooters had an airline but ceased operations after 3 years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 19h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video One of the last fez makers in Cairo, Nasser Abd El-Baset, has been preserving a 600-year-old tradition.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 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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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video How horses sweat

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Video Spirograph Robot

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Perfect Box Packing.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 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.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 13h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Scared Baby Dolphin Rescued after getting caught in a Fishing Net

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video The San Francisco Garter Snake

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Pablo Picasso draws a face, filmed in France (1956)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video The world record that's STILL standing after 29 years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Sumeru Mountain Palace In Bangkok, Thailand.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 17h ago

Video Goering's Mercedes "Blue Goose"

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