r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MelanieWalmartinez • 5h ago

Video Students get smudged by indigenous elders for peace and blessings throughout the year

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kaos2018 • 4h ago

Image A Brazilian Scientist Mariangelina Hungria spent 40years developing bacteria that supply crops from nitrogen from the air. A $2 solution replaces fertilisers and cuts 230 million tons of CO2 emissions, granting her “World Food Prize” award

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Love-Tap • 10h ago

Video An incredible variety of moths attracted to an illuminated sheet. This technique is called light sheeting

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TerraByteTerror • 6h ago

🔥 white orca spotted by Rausu, japan

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/No_Idea_479 • 35m ago

Image For 21 years, Andromachi Papanikolaou volunteered to undergo daily cervical smears so her husband, Greek physician Georgios Papanikolaou, could perfect the Pap test. As such, she helped create one of the greatest cancer screening tools in medical history, saving millions of lives worldwide.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kxrimm • 2h ago

Video Orcas hunting seals

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Trchickenugg_ohe • 21h ago

Image Duane Keith Davis has been found guilty of the murder of Tupac Shakur

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rational_bakchod • 16h ago

Video A plane which doesn't need a runway.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Imaginary-Bat903 • 11h ago

6th Century Rock Cut Temples at Badami Caves

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/JPPT1974 • 17h ago

Video Japanese Electric Flyswatter-Zapper

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/waitingforthesun92 • 16h ago

Video 41 years ago today, the RMS Titanic was discovered by a joint American-French team led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel. Here’s the exact moment the crew discovered the ship, after she spent 73 quiet years on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 5h ago

The 3,000-year-old golden sandals, along with finger and toe sheaths, discovered in Tutankhamun's tomb

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DearDirector1288 • 7h ago

Video Meet the Headless Chicken Monster A sea cucumber that flies through the deep ocean at 19,000 feet.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TerraByteTerror • 10h ago

Video Persian carpet flatworm

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaiJolt2 • 18h ago

Image At 58 miles (92 km) the metro A line in Los Angeles, California, USA is the longest tram/light rail line in the world. It has a mix of underground, elevated, highway median running and street running segments

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/No-Strawberry7 • 1d ago

Video A falcon was bid up to AED 1.05 million (~$286,000) at Abu Dhabi’s International Hunting & Equestrian Exhibition. These falcons are prized for traditional falconry, breeding, competition and their rare bloodlines and characteristics.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/gravityVT • 1d ago

Video godzilla light show in shinjuku, tokyo

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 4h ago

Video World First Triple Flair by Kieran Reilly

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LKama07 • 22m ago

Original Creation This is how robots learn to walk: 4096 simulated ducks share the same neural network, they fall thousands of times until it works.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/No-Cod4921 • 1d ago

Male bridal gift spiders wrap insects in silk as nuptial gifts for the females so they agree to mate. Some males just wrap stones in silk and hope they can finish mating before the female notices the trick.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ThodaDaruVichPyar • 1d ago

Video Kempelen’s Owls are public art statues in Austin whose heads move when the hidden wheel mechanism under the bench is turned

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/shankaranpillayi • 15h ago

Video NASA's Perseverance rover continuously explores Mars, sending back incredibly detailed images of the rocks, terrain, and landscape of a world located millions of miles away from Earth

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Exotic_Flamingo9235 • 1d ago

Image Cute Little Guy’: Scientists Discover a Tiny Blue Species of Octopus by the Galápagos Islands

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HydrolicKrane • 16h ago

Image Scythian Heavy Armor Museum Recreation: 23kg of weight!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TerraByteTerror • 22h ago

Resplendent Bush frog

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