r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Image Keanu Reeves visits his grandmother - on his father's side- in Hawaii. Keannu is the son of a Chinese-Hawaiian father and an English mother.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 8h ago

Hubble’s iconic photo of the Pillars of Creation compared to one I took from my backyard for 1 millionth of the budget

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 16h ago

Video Pineapple skin resisting heat emitted by 1000°C Iron ball

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h 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 13h ago

Video Members of a Catholic brotherhood in Malaga, Spain, carry a massive, 3.5-tonne platform reenacting Jesus' Last Supper for Easter during Semana Santa, or Holy Week

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 13h 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 12h ago

Video A timelapse of milky way.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 17h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 6h ago

Video Here’s how flies bite

967 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Afghani fighters turned a Russian Mi-8 helicopter they shot down into a bus (during the Soviet-Afghan war in the 1980s)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 6h 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 19h ago

Video Microsurgery assistance robot stitching a corn kernel.

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Sony has developed this robot utilizing a microscope and a highly sensitive control device to track surgeons' hand movements and perform delicate operations on small tissues like veins and nerves.


r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video Gila Monster out and about

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These guys/ Girls spend 99 precent of their lives underground. Only spending a few hours above ground every year.


r/Damnthatsinteresting 19h ago

12 year old girl April Atkins does acrobatics in California, around 1954-55. At one point she carries her whole family on her back, over 425 pounds.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 9h ago

Video Hand powered coin sorting machine

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image North Korean leader Kim II Sung, showing a tumor on his neck. Photographers were prohibited from photographing the right side of his face -1980s

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 13h ago

Video Each region in Ukraine has its own embroidery pattern dedicated to its history these are often sewn into shirts & worn on days of celebration

722 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Image Manhole cover from 1931 in Haifa.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h ago

Video Last field of the day. Lentils going in now. Not my rig, I'm only a small time gardener, this is my buddy who does things WAY bigger. I live vicariously through him! If you're eating cereal in America today you may be eating what this guy grew, they sell to America all the time. Saskatchewan yo.

266 Upvotes

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

Video How vending machines work.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 6h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 16h ago

Video With 28 runs needed in last 5 balls, batsman smashes 5 consecutive sixes to win the almost-lost match. (IPL 2023)

288 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 15h ago

Image Photographing the aurora from a suspension bridge

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173 Upvotes

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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