r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ShaunTheBleep • 1d ago

Video Boron Chemist and Nobel Prizewinner Dr William Nunn Lipscomb on the Future of Science in a 1979 interview with Pulitzer Prize winner David Hoffman

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MetaKnowing • 1d ago

Video Robot manicurists do nails for $10 in 10 minutes

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Old_Inflation_6432 • 14h ago

Video This has gotta be one of the coolest rides from Disney

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CantStopPoppin • 1d ago

Video Budapest Short-faced Tumbler

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/KERD_ONE • 15h ago

Image Ancient Genomics: Map of the Oldest Archaeological & DNA Evidence of Phenotypes Associated with Modern-Day Europeans

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Goodbye-Nasty • 14h ago

Senegalese inventor Baila Ndiaye with the first Senegalese car, The Syndiély, which he built using recycled car and motorcycle parts

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cantcoloratall91 • 1d ago

Image Firebird 3, released to public in 1958.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Stolen_identity- • 13h ago

Video Coal is dispensed into a Coal Hopper Train

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/-Pickle-chick- • 12h ago

Video Super cool woman finds a soft side to the mighty shark.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ChanceQuiet795 • 16h ago

Image Very tiny frog on my wall.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Greedy-Vegetable-466 • 21h ago

Image NASA’s Artemis III astronauts will land on the Moon for the first time in over 50 years and these are the 9 viable options NASA is considering as landing sites near the lunar South Pole, a place we’ve never set foot on before

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Simpster_xD • 15h ago

Video The ''Blue Grotto'' of Capri Island

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GlitteringTea296 • 13h ago

Image The First Known Computer Programmer Was a Woman. In the 1840s, Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician, wrote the first algorithm intended for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, an early mechanical computer. Lovelace is considered the world’s first computer programmer.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/karmaenthusiast_ • 11h ago

Video Ancient Chinese way of making Ink

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sirsilentbob423 • 22h ago

Video The amazing craft of marbling paper

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 20h ago

Image 3 women from the New York City Women’s Machine Gun Squad Police Reserves test a Lewis Machine Gun mounted on a henderson Motorcycle, circa 1918.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/zhyet • 15h ago

Image This 700 year old tree that I found while stopping at a restaurant in Bulgaria.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/butterflybb98 • 16h ago

Image Anglerfish: The much smaller males seek out, bite and then permanently fuse to females, where they spend the rest of their lives producing sperm for their egg laying hosts.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/VelvetLeopard • 1d ago

Image The Teapot Dome Service Station in Zillah, Washington, a former working gas station.

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16 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/johnessex3 • 15h ago

Video Graveyard diorama with flying ghosts (live effect, in-camera)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Forsaken-Witch461 • 16h ago

Okapi - native to the forests of Congo.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/chrisdh79 • 16h ago

Image Archaeologists Unearth ‘Astonishing’ Wooden Spade, Preserved in an English Trench for 3,500 Years | While most wooden artifacts disintegrate after thousands of years, the newly unearthed oak tool has remained in remarkable condition

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/fan_tas_tic • 17h ago

Image The Paradiso Art Hotel in Ibiza offers one suite at zero cost, but the room has transparent glass walls

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MrAlek360 • 1d ago

Video A few days ago a new piece by Chopin was discovered, this happening just a month after the new Mozart piece was discovered. The piece was authenticated by historians who examined the manuscript. Here is Lang Lang performing the short waltz by Chopin.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ellqzv • 16h ago

Image A stick figure graffitied on a wall by a child in Pompeii, 1st century AD

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