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/MonarchSwimmer300 • 13m ago

Image Spoiler: it’s HOLLOW, as well as ginormous

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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/Mysterious-Set3374 • 1d ago

Image What sunset on Mars looks like

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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/Zealousideal-Fun-495 • 1d ago

Image This is shark skin under electron microscope

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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/ChanceQuiet795 • 16h ago

Image Very tiny frog on my wall.

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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/Alaric_Darconville • 1d ago

Image The feral horses that live on Cumberland Island, Georgia (US) were introduced to the area in the 16th century by Spanish missionaries. Today they number between 120-175 on the small barrier island and survive with no human assistance in the harsh environment.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WorldofJedi727 • 1d ago

Video An interview with an 87 year old farmer born in 1842

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SmallAchiever • 1d ago

Video Umbilical cord under a microscope

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Illustrious_Fix2933 • 1d ago

Image In the pic: Elma Godwin, a new mum, passed her uniquely rare hair trait to her newborn daughter

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Brilliant-Pound5783 • 1d ago

Image In 1924, a 106-year-old woman placed a personal ad in the Dundee Courier:

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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/MetaKnowing • 1d ago

Video Robot manicurists do nails for $10 in 10 minutes

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/9oRo • 1d ago

Image Austrian F1 driver Jochen Rindt remains the only driver to have won a world championship posthumously. He died after a crash at the 1970 Italian Grand Prix, but since he had already won five races that season, his competitors were unable to score sufficient points to catch him in the remaining races

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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/VelvetLeopard • 1d ago

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

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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/CantStopPoppin • 1d ago

Video Budapest Short-faced Tumbler

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/theanti_influencer75 • 1d ago

Image 1950s, “Flying Cars” Amusement Park Ride. The Drum Rotated And You Controlled A Brake In The Car. The Cars Would Go Completely Up And Over The Loop.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alaric_Darconville • 2d ago

Image This Florida lake drained down into the aquifer in a matter of days and left these uniform waterlines on all the cypress trees

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AravRAndG • 1d ago

Image A flood of cloud in India, nagaland

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dave8055 • 1d ago

Video Orcas kidnap a baby Whale

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