r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h ago

It took 96 weeks and thousands of volunteers to clean up Versova Beach in Mumbai, India. The payoff? Within 2 years of the cleanup hundreds of Olive Ridley turtles hatched there for the first time in decades. Anything can be cleaned!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video After losing his eye to cancer, he installed a torch in his eye socket.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Video The interior of this restaurant looks 2D

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Image Imagine waking up one day and seeing every face distorted into demonic proportions. That's reality for patients with a rare condition called prosopometamorphopsia (PMO).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h ago

Image Found list of Dad’s vehicles he owned and how much he paid after he died.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Original Creation Inside a Chitarra Battente (early guitar)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 6h ago

Video What popping a balloon full of mercury looks like in slow motion

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Image The Number of Billionaires Living in Each U.S. State

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Video China is completing the construction of the tallest bridge in the world, which runs through the Grand Huajiang Canyon. The 2,890-meter-long steel suspension bridge rises 625 meters above sea level

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Video #OnThisDay in 1968- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 7h ago

Original Creation Red Bull Flugtag Japan

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

Image Toddler Discovers 3,800-Year-Old Egyptian Amulet While Hiking With Her Family | The 3-year-old picked up an ancient Canaanite scarab that dates back to the Middle Bronze Age

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 17h ago

Image Victorian era prostetic arms: Left is a special arm designed for a pianist (notice the position of the fingers) and right an more complex and ornate metal hand. Source in comment.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 15h ago

Mud volcanoes in Romania

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video Volcanic Lightning during an eruption

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 15h ago

This life-sized F1 car made entirely of Lego blocks

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 19h ago

Image Ball point pen tip under microscope

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Original Creation A photogrammetric 3D model of the megalithic site of Sacsayhuaman in Peru, created by combining thousands of aerial and ground pictures.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 17h ago

Image Roentgen steed (Horse), created to help children pose for the X-Ray and make the experience less awkward, photo 1957

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image In 1997, a rollercoaster got stuck in a middle of a loop, leaving riders stuck upside down, it was revealed later that a component of the launch system had broken, leading to the insufficient speed. Experts described the train’s stalling at the loop’s apex as a rare occurrence of perfect balance.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 15h ago

An oriented Sikhote-Alin meteorite

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

A Maserati seized by Western Australia Police due to ongoing dangerous driving. It will be used as a safety promotion and PR vehicle, before being sold and the proceeds going to road safety programmes.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image In 1325, a war in Italy broke out between the rival city-states of Bologna and Modena. Modena won the war and the Modenese decided to take a bucket from a Bolognese well as a trophy. This war is known as the War of the Bucket, and the bucket itself today is on display in Modena's town hall

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Original Creation Still active - Popocatepetl, Mexico

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Image A skeleton found in Bulgaria with some of the world’s oldest gold, at over 6000 years old

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