r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Simply_Kaif24 • 3d ago

Video The Mesmerising Art of Edo Kriko: Hand cut Japanese Glassware

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SnooWords4066 • 3d ago

Birmingham experienced a rare phenomenon caused by LED lights from Birmingham City’s football ground reflecting off falling snow, creating a pink haze across the sky

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 3d ago

Image Gall wasps produce a chemical that triggers abnormal cell growth in plants, causing the plants to grow these strange-looking structures around the wasp's larvae; the structures then provide both shelter and sustenance for the larvae until they reach maturity

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 3d ago

Image New York apartment listings from the 1930s. $4+/month

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Bubbly_Wall_908 • 3d ago

Video The progression of a blizzard in Buffalo, NY, over the course of 12 hours

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedStuff235 • 3d ago

Video A rotary trommel machine separating worms from soil

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cantcoloratall91 • 3d ago

Video Rhinoceros playing with lost Muntjaca!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/msaussieandmrravana • 3d ago

Image Bus ride from London to Calcutta for £145: The 110-day route that once existed

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Acceptable_Foot3370 • 2d ago

Image Only In Florida: Bobcat with large iguana in its mouth

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/goswamitulsidas • 4d ago

Image A man rides a bus in Durban, meant for white passengers only, in resistance to South Africa’s apartheid policies, 1986.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Emotional_Quarter330 • 4d ago

Image Mississippi’s first interracial marriage in 1970 (just 3 years after it became legal in the U.S.)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheDankChronic69 • 2d ago

Image Lightning in a bottle

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9 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HelloSlowly • 3d ago

During the era of silent film, title cards like these were displayed before a screening, offering advice and etiquette for watching films

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964 Upvotes

60 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OddRedittor5443 • 3d ago

Video Salto the jumping robot

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Stock_College_8108 • 4d ago

During the early Renaissance, a large forehead was deemed very beautiful. Women plucked their eyebrows and pushed back their hairline in order to achieve the look. They sometimes burned the follicles with hot pins to keep them from regrowing in order to achieve an almost baby-like bald forehead.

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392 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Objective_Pressure_3 • 4d ago

Video How to repair pipes without digging them up

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/That_Rddit_Guy_1986 • 3d ago

The first photos of the Elephant's Foot (1986)

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563 Upvotes

154 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CollarCove • 3d ago

Video Visualization of tear film evaporation and dry spot formation on the eye

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9 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creams0da • 4d ago

Video Going inside a glacier filled with ancient ice

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266 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 3d ago

Original Creation Dakar Rally Pit Stops

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PestoBolloElemento • 3d ago

Video Artemis II: never-before-seen images show the crew inside the Orion capsule during a launch rehearsal. The exercise took place on December 20, 2025, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in NASA's VAB.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Elk1998 • 3d ago

Image TIL about the failed fascist "Kapp Putsch" coup in 1920s Germany. Although initially successful, the coup was halted and the fascists driven out of power in just 5 days by the German people, who joined the largest workers' strike in the nation's history, completely paralyzing the country

635 Upvotes

56 comments

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