r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/captivatedsummer • 4h ago

Image The "Hasanlu lovers" died around 800 B.C. and were discovered in 1972. They died in what seems to be an embrace or kiss, and remained that way for 2800 years. The skeletons were both later identified as male.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 6h ago

Painting from the 1600s show how much watermelos have change due slective breeding.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/misterxx1958 • 9h ago

Video This guy helps this turtle out of a dangerous situation to go back to the sea.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/IM2X_ • 5h ago

Image A man in Rhode Island just grew the first pumpkin in history to weigh over 3,000 pounds (1,431 kg), setting a new world record

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/l-Am-Nicolas-Cage • 10h ago

Video Train conductor Eric Carlisle captures footage as EF-3 tornado hits stationary train in Nebraska, derailing 31 cars with no injuries reported

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/west_manchester • 13h ago

Image Epic art in Brooklyn

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Main_Locksmith_2543 • 14h ago

Video Swimmers enjoying the London Sky Pool, a fully transparent pool suspended 115 feet in the air between two buildings

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rough_Ad_8702 • 12h ago

Video Astonishing slow motion footage recorded at 1000FPS shows lighting strikes on wind turbines following the turbine blades as they turn

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Love-Tap • 12h ago

In 1975, a hidden room beneath Florence’s Medici Chapels was discovered covered in sketches, some believed to be by Michelangelo

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/varunpotter • 16h ago

Video Making of diwali lights in India

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MseMahi • 8h ago

Video There’s a shoe shining competition

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ApollosCosmos • 15h ago

Video Calcio Storico Fiorentino is a blend of football, rugby and mixed martial arts played every year in Italy.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AetheriaNox • 3h ago

Image The oldest surviving 'bottle' of wine. Discovered in 2019 during excavations in Carmona, Spain, the Carmona wine urn is a first-century Roman glass urn containing intact wine.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Limp_Yogurtcloset_71 • 8h ago

Image Heavenly Flamingos by Junji Takasago. Photographer Junji had to struggle with altitude sickness to capture this beautiful, almost otherworldly photo.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/anikkundu1998 • 12h ago

Video Fastest route to every pizzeria in Italy(credit: DataDork1)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Nestagon • 4h ago

Video Earth-Sized Shockwave From the Tonga Volcano Eruption in 2022 (Himawari-8 Satellite)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RedaNassef • 1d ago

Video A 3,300-year-old mummified foot of an upland moa bird discovered in a New Zealand cave in 1987, showing intact skin, claws, and feathers running all the way down to its ankles, preserved by dry cave breezes

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/batman_rests • 21h ago

Video amazonian rain forest’s “drumming ants”. The vibrations are an alarm, warning the rest of the colony and telling potential threats to back off.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheShyBuck • 1d ago

Image Devices to prevent masturbation for boys and girls.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LunaTuna823 • 1d ago

Video Explosion captured by live weather radar

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rare_Ride_3650 • 1d ago

Video Incredible video of a meteor☄️ taken from flight attendant Alexandra Spasskaya on Aeroflot Flight SU 1289✈️ from Ulyanovsk to Moscow

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fun-Concentrate-880 • 1d ago

Video Risky lion dance

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Novapierce_ • 1d ago

Video Storm in Lorenzo, Nebraska

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GeorgeRobertVitkos • 1d ago

Video Controlled collapse of the 355-meter RKS Liblice 2 radio masts (October 15, 2026)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Video Testing cars for crashes in the 1930s.

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38 comments

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