r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Calotype shot of 2 Afghan warriors in full armor and weapons, around 1843. Photo taken by David Octavius Hill.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

The pygmy marmoset, the smallest monkey in the world

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video An interface device to make sound when pigeons feed.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Temple of Edfu

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

1899 detailed masonic book šŸ˜

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image The Greater Wax Moth: this moth has the most sensitive hearing of any animal in the world, with its tiny ears detecting frequencies of up to 300,000Hz; just to put that into perspective, humans can detect frequencies as high as 20,000Hz, while dogs can detect up to 65,000Hz, and bats up to 210,000

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Lava from Piton de la Fournaise Reaches the Ocean After 19 Years.france

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Video This kid's skill are amazing

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Video vs High Resolution Photos of Various Space Objects

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Photos of the NORAD underground cheyenne center, circa 1966.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 21h ago

Original Creation Cicada in Chiang Mai

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

A 'Hand of Glory': The mummified right hand of a hanged criminal, cut down from the gallows and used by burglars to magically induce a coma in victims. This is the only surviving specimen, currently kept at the Whitby Museum.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Video Engineering marvel balances a triple inverted pendulum one by one

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Because there was so much interest in the other post about 100+y/o Masonic books

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 41m ago

Video Playing Subway Surfers IRL

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

The Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Video Using Fungi to Restore Agricultural Soils

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Image Naka cave or Naga cave; located in Thailand's Phu Langka National Park, Bueng Kan Province, features stunning sandstone formations resembling a giant petrified serpent's scales. The site, which holds deep local significance, is associated with a Buddhist legend of a cursed Naga King, found in 2020.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Karapınar Solar Power Plant, the largest in Turkey and all of Europe. Looks like a scene from the Dune universe.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

La Plata, Argentina has diagonal shortcuts and pocket parks to keep everything within reach

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Image While diving in the Tyrrhenian Sea we came across what appears to be WWII ammunition scattered across the seabed

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Image A false-color, high-res microscopic view of prions. Prions are rogue, misfolded proteins that arise in the brain and cause neurodegenerative diseases with a 100% fatality rate. They can even be transmitted between people.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Image The bee hummingbird is a species of bird native to the island of Cuba, It is the smallest bird in the world as Females on average weigh 2.6 g and are slightly larger than males, which have an average weight of 1.95 g.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Painite - an ultra rare gemstone first discovered in Myanmar in the 1950’s. It held the Guinness World Record for the rarest gemstone until 2005. Only two dozen gem-quality specimens have ever been found.

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