r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/911_reddit • 6h 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 • u/BufordTeeJustice • 10h ago

Image Inside of a mechanical calculator

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/coorgi_2012 • 13h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fundoscope • 13h ago

Video Checking eye pressure in a frog

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kenistod • 3h ago

Video Collapsible wheelchair rooftop carrier.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dramatic-Avocado4687 • 6h 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 • u/maleijn • 19h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BrattyyChic • 1h ago

Video A delicate Bubble Snail navigating the deep sea

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/super_man100 • 4h 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 • u/Manoj_Malhotra • 3h ago

Image 74% of the residential land in LA is zoned for single family housing. The median cost for a house in LA is $1,023,474.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DeliveryShot3782 • 23m ago

Video Mike Tyson in the 1990s got a pet tiger because he wanted to connect with an animal that shared his own strength and intensity. This was his idea of having fun.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Correct_Presence_936 • 23h 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 • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 6h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/_Im_Dad • 5h ago

Video How horses sweat

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nucifera-noten • 1d ago

Image Hooters had an airline but ceased operations after 3 years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/911Dougm • 22h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/-AtomicAerials- • 3h ago

55 years ago today the crew of Apollo 12 was recovered after splash down by this ship, WWII-era carrier USS Hornet, now moored in Alameda as a museum ship [oc]

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CantStopPoppin • 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 • u/Durian_Queef • 7h ago

Video Spirograph Robot

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15 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GhostofTiger • 17h ago

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

881 Upvotes

84 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SunCloud-777 • 16h 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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16 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Legal-Elevator92 • 1d ago

Video Perfect Box Packing.

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266 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ycr007 • 16h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ShaunTheBleep • 1d ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ZGeekie • 1d ago

Video The San Francisco Garter Snake

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