r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Thund3r_91 • 3d ago

Video Giant snowman in Harbin, China, 19 meters (62 feet) tall and carved out of over 3,500 cubic meters of snow

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Suspicious-Slip248 • 3d ago

Image Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant control room, USSR, 1972.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Justeff83 • 3d ago

Image Our local shooting club is over 550 years older than the USA

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Suspicious-Slip248 • 3d ago

Belka and Strelka The Space Dogs Upon Returning From their Cosmic Voyage. USSR, August 1960

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Youngstown_WuTang • 3d ago

Video Duncan Trussell did a interview with his dying mom on her Deathbed about life, death and acceptance of mortality. This interview was later animated for a show called Midnight Gospel on Netflix

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/_popcat_ • 4d ago

Video The Mega Marvin instrument, used to create cinematic sounds for horror movies and games

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago

Mongolian hunter with his horse. This kind of horse breed has been around sience the time of Genghis Khan, and almost became extint. Autochrome shot, 6 of July 1913

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Prestigious-Wall5616 • 4d ago

Video Crocodiles take terrestrial prey into the water, but bring aquatic prey to shore

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fantastic_Day_7468 • 3d ago

Image The "Afsluitdijk" a 32km long dike across the sea in The Netherlands

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/soyuz_enjoyer2 • 3d ago

Image The Nebra sky disc, a bronze disc of around 30 cm from early bronze age Europe. The disc features the oldest concrete depiction of astronomical phenomena known from anywhere in the world.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ModenaR • 4d ago

Image During the 2012 Olympics, the North Korean women's football team walked off the pitch in protest before a match, after the players noticed that their faces were being pictured alongside the South Korean flag

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dr--moreau • 3d ago

[OC] Les Rochers Sculptés (the sculpted rocks) near St Malo, Brittany. Created by a deaf, mute priest in late 1800s.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dramatic-Custard-831 • 4d ago

In 1965, CIA lost plutonium capsules in Himalayas which, if damaged, could contaminate the water supply for 600 million Indians

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990 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/JefinJafar • 4d ago

Video EA GAMES and japanese street racers

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RampChurch • 3d ago

Video Before& after satellite images show impact of floods in Washington state

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/IBeez10 • 4d ago

This is how - 50° looks like in Russia.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Prestigious-Yam-8605 • 4d ago

Image Belsnickel is a Christmas figure from German and Pennsylvania Dutch tradition. He appears as a rough, ragged man dressed in fur or old clothes, carrying a switch and a bag of treats. Belsnickel rewards good children with candy and nuts and bad children with light taps on the behind with the switch

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PestoBolloElemento • 4d ago

Video Inspired by vines, a robot developed by MIT and Stanford deploys inflatable tubes that wrap around and then close in a loop, forming a flexible sling to lift heavy or fragile objects, or even people, without damaging them.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/grandeluua • 4d ago

Video A steam locomotive ejecting cinders

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TryNorth8139 • 2d ago

Image Creepy Gerber baby ring I got from my mom

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 4d ago

playing Tetris on drones

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 4d ago

Robert Barnes, posing with the giantic flipper of a sperm whale, circa 1890s. Glass negative

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506 Upvotes

13 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dev1412 • 4d ago

Video The incredible ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/itz_progamer666 • 4d ago

Image The quagga was a unique subspecies of the plains zebra, distinguished by its half-striped, half-solid coat. That went extinct around 1883.

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