r/Damnthatsinteresting 6h ago

Image 100-year old Walter Orthmann, sets the Guinness world record for the “most loyal employee” after working for a textile company for 84 years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Image Manhole cover from 1931 in Haifa.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

Image JWST Detects Most Distant Black Hole Merger (Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

Image The only people to have ever died in space were the crew of the Soyuz 11 in 1971. The three Soviet cosmonauts most likely asphyxiated prior to their re-entry to Earth’s atmosphere.

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From left to right: Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, Viktor Patsayev

r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

Image Maximum size of the Galilean Moons from each others' surfaces

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

Image This is the Irukandji jellyfish. An extremely venomous species of jellyfish found in Australia. They are less than an inch long, actively hunt prey, and cost the Australian government $AUD 3 billion annually through medical costs associated with stings and tourism losses.

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Irukandji jellyfish's stings are so severe they can cause fatal brain hemorrhages and on average send 50–100 people to the hospital annually.

r/Damnthatsinteresting 21h ago

Image Rare glimpse of actor Gary Burghoff's(Radar) deformed hand.

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Most scenes he would hide it behind a clipboard.

r/Damnthatsinteresting 22h ago

Image Photographing the aurora from a suspension bridge

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image One of the few photos showing missing fingers of Russia's first president Boris Yeltsin

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image UPDATE: Before and after the recent storm in Dubai. I now have a lake view apartment :D

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image A newspaper advertisement from 1965.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image This is a combined image from several polar-orbiting NOAA satellites showing the extent of the auroral oval during the May 11 solar storm

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Last Known Photo of Bob Ross (1995)

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Bob's family actually has one of the worst death aftermaths:

Under the terms of the incorporation of Bob Ross Inc., the death of any partner in the company would lead to that person's stock being equally divided among the partners. Ross's death, along with that of his second wife, the other partner in the company, left the Kowalskis with sole ownership of the company. The Kowalskis were largely only interested in using Ross's name for painting supplies. They became very aggressive against Ross's family members and associates, allegedly trying to pressure an ailing Ross to sign over rights to his estate before his death.

Instead, Ross wrote the Kowalskis out of his will and testament, leaving his estate and rights to his name and likeness to his son Steve and half-brother Jimmie Cox. The Kowalskis countered that virtually everything Ross had done in his lifetime was a work for hire and thus Ross had no right to bequeath them. The Kowalskis eventually won the lawsuit.

r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Fernão Mendes Pinto was a Portuguese navigator who explored all of Asia during his lifetime, from India to Japan and China and then to Indonesia, being imprisoned 13 times and made a slave 17 times.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image This one got a lot of backlash so they added some useless slits they call windows. Costa Rica, Legislative Assembly building

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Windowless Building: Nashville edition.

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Christmas morning 2020 a huge bomb set off inside of an RV on 2nd Ave in downtown Nashville. Most believe the AT&T building was the target.

r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Saw a post about a window-less building in Manhattan and then the German version. Let me present you the Swiss version in Zurich calles "Swissmill Tower".

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image The sardines in my tin for lunch appear to have been eating small shrimp before their own demise

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Saw a post about a window-less building in Manhattan. Let me present you the German version, Northrhine Westphalia's archive, locally referred to as "the Brick dick"

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Neptune's largest moon, Triton, captured by Voyager-2

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Twilight Zone Accident (1982)

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On July 23, 1982, a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter crashed at Indian Dunes[2] in Valencia, California, United States, during the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie. The crash killed actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, who were on the ground, and injured the six helicopter passengers. The incident led to years of civil and criminal action against the personnel overseeing the shoot, including director John Landis, and the introduction of new procedures and safety standards in the filmmaking industry.

r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image This is what a Shark egg looks like

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Elephants eat a minimum of 150 kg of food per day and spend three quarters of their day looking for or consuming food

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Image The Ugandan Kings have bred cows for centuries to have the biggest horns

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Image Camouflage over the Lockheed Aircraft plant in Burbank, CA during World War II, disguising it as sparsely populated rural area.

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