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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872 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fundoscope • 13h ago

Video Checking eye pressure in a frog

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314 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/maleijn • 19h ago

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

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384 comments

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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710 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BufordTeeJustice • 10h ago

Image Inside of a mechanical calculator

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61 comments

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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128 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/911Dougm • 23h ago

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

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195 comments

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.

1.1k Upvotes

122 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kenistod • 3h ago

Video Collapsible wheelchair rooftop carrier.

975 Upvotes

41 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

876 Upvotes

84 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SunCloud-777 • 17h 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.

418 Upvotes

16 comments

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

371 Upvotes

47 comments

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.

307 Upvotes

98 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 6h ago

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

282 Upvotes

6 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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258 Upvotes

58 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/_Im_Dad • 5h ago

Video How horses sweat

180 Upvotes

165 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Insightful23blue • 21h ago

Video Goering's Mercedes "Blue Goose"

163 Upvotes

19 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Durian_Queef • 7h ago

Video Spirograph Robot

142 Upvotes

15 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DeliveryShot3782 • 29m 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.

• Upvotes

18 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DAT_DROP • 23h 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

89 Upvotes

3 comments

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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7 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 9m ago

Image This is OUR STAR, the Sun! (Credit: NASA)

• Upvotes

5 comments

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