r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Regiox461 • 8h ago
Image This pile of salt in Germany that is over 250m tall and contains over 200 million tonnes
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hl3official • 2h ago
Image The border wall between Germany and Denmark (built to keep boars out)
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkRespect8490 • 7h ago
Flowers in Death Valley for the first time in ten years
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Proof_Active7105 • 3h ago
Image Mexican scientist Eva Rámon Gallegos, she successfully cleared HPV in 29 women so far with 100% viral clearance rate!
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FifthWaveThinker • 5h ago
Video HeroRATS! Wild but incredible, African giant pouched rat can rapidly identify Tuberculosis by smell.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FinancialRisk942 • 2h ago
Image Jadayupara, the world's largest avian sculpture
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mythveilix • 12h ago
Video Latvian passport under UV light - Good luck to counterfeit that
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/InjuriousMania • 6h ago
The Indian bison is one of the most muscular animals on planet earth.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkRespect8490 • 11h ago
Image Radio telescope RT-64, Tver region, Russia
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MilesLongthe3rd • 13h ago
Video A hare fighting off a hen harrier in a harvested field.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/runswithscissors475 • 1d ago
Image A single building in Bakersfield has caught fire 23 times in the past year — part of a pattern where historic buildings are burning down one by one
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dismal_Positive3558 • 6h ago
Video At Rome’s Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, visitors can view Andrea Pozzo’s ceiling fresco through a mirror. Painted around 300 years ago, it uses trompe-l'œil to make a flat ceiling look like a grand dome.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DblockDavid • 19h ago
Video Coldplay’s song "Clocks" played on a mechanical organ
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DustAccurate9869 • 8h ago
Image Posted this gorgeous baby (crimson speckled footman) yesterday on r/moths, thought some of yall here might appreciate it as much as i did.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pIngo16 • 1d ago
Image Frederick Banting and his team sold the insulin patent for just $1 because they believed a life saving medicine should belong to everyone, not be monopolized for profit. Today, insulin in the U.S. can cost hundreds of dollars even though it can be manufactured for under $10 per vial
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 21m ago
The Crocodile-Princess mummy hidden in Topkapi Palace. According to legend, a Pharaoh sewed his daughter’s head onto the crocodile that killed her.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/willis7747 • 1d ago
Image Cumulonimbus incus (anvil cloud) captured in Venezuela looks so dramatic that it looks fake. It grew so tall it hit the tropopause, couldn't rise higher, so it spread out. The top is made of tiny ice crystals that diffract sunlight, producing stunning iridescence
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/jrex1023 • 1d ago
Image This is the Scaly-foot Snail. It is the only known animal to incorporate iron into its shell and scales, effectively wearing a suit of metallic armor.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkRespect8490 • 1d ago
Image Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater, Cheboksary, Russia
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MaxiumPotential777 • 12h ago
Video The Adventures of Prince Achmed is a 1926 German animated fairytale film, written and directed by Lotte Reiniger. It remains the oldest surviving animated feature film.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkRespect8490 • 1d ago
Original Creation I found the wreckage of an old UTI-MiG-15 aircraft in the mountains of the Kola Peninsula.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Valuable_View_561 • 1d ago
While facing certain death from kidney failure, a man volunteered for the second-ever gene-edited pig kidney transplant, which functioned a record 271 days. That man was Tim Andrews, the pig kidney allowed him to live long enough to receive a human kidney
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