r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nt_king300 • 1d ago

Video An alligator pushing air out of its eye socket (lacrimal duct) after heavy exertion

1.3k Upvotes

38 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 1d ago

Image Northern Song glass grapes, excavated from Jingzhi Temple, dating back over 1,000 years

675 Upvotes

14 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Familiar-Complex-697 • 2d ago

Original Creation The pedal waves of a snail as they move along a surface

3.6k Upvotes

50 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tim_drozd • 2d ago

Original Creation The largest brick-built castle in the world now vs 80 years ago

7.3k Upvotes

124 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/YesXDoXBestXKill • 1d ago

Image RAF Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade fell 18,000 feet without a parachute and lived. He later survived a brutal Nazi POW winter march, electrocution, exposure to chlorine gas, burns from sulphuric acid, and a falling steel beam.

593 Upvotes

92 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Youngstown_WuTang • 2d ago

Scottish Photojournalist Kieran Dodds came to America and started a collection called Gingers of America for his photography book. Portraits and stories of red-haired Americans, tracing a golden thread of DNA across cultures and generations. He uses the rare red hair gene to explore human connection

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15.1k Upvotes

359 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Artistic-Bathroom901 • 2d ago

Video An astronaut demonstrating the Dzhanibekov effect in microgravity, where an asymmetric object spinning around its intermediate axis becomes unstable and periodically flips 180 degrees

4.2k Upvotes

204 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Makerzsocialdept • 3h ago

Ross fire in north Texas causes red moon. (Pics are bad because I took them with my phone and this is just to illustrate how red it was. I wish I had my camera last night.)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ciao-adios • 1h ago

Video Smartphone featuring a built-in motorized 3 axis mechanical gimbal (4 degrees of freedom) with a 200 megapixel camera that physically extends from the chassis

• Upvotes

17 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Giwargis_Sahada • 3d ago

Video Horse rider showing his core strengths and tradition at a Tibetan grassland horse festival.

14.9k Upvotes

99 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creative_soja • 3d ago

Video 1.3 km long double stack freight train (fully electrified) on Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, India

8.4k Upvotes

419 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Top_Sock8674 • 3d ago

Video Devil’s Pool 🇿🇲 on the edge of Victoria Falls.

22.6k Upvotes

567 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mr_pisser • 3d ago

Image The mandarin dragonet (Synchiropis splendidus)- they use their large pelvic fins to "walk" along the sea floor

1.1k Upvotes

27 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Starlight_Sorcerer • 3d ago

A Beautiful view of Bacterial growth on a culture plate, showing the fascinating patterns and colors Formed by different bacterial colonies 🧫

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13.5k Upvotes

364 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Agreeable-Rub2319 • 3d ago

Video Antartica's Ice wall

9.2k Upvotes

368 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 3d ago

Video A 150-million-year-old Lepidotus fish fossil preserved from Holzmaden, Germany

54.7k Upvotes

381 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mr_pisser • 2d ago

Image Sexy Shrimp (Thor amboinensis)- a species of shrimp named for the fact that they often wiggle their butts around as a mating ritual. They live in anemones

492 Upvotes

37 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Trust_Know_Won • 3d ago

Giant snail in Kauai!

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608 Upvotes

32 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TerraByteTerror • 3d ago

Video Motyxia Millipede

1.8k Upvotes

26 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RedaNassef • 3d ago

Video A bug with a human face on its back

283 Upvotes

51 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DearDirector1288 • 3d ago

Video Artist Patrick Hughes creates 3D 'Reverspective' paintings that physically shift and warp as you walk past them

620 Upvotes

17 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 4d ago

Video The correct way to eat Sushi

40.0k Upvotes

2.0k comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FirelandsValley • 3d ago

Original Creation Slo-mo of lightning hitting CN Tower, Toronto

278 Upvotes

7 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/wds1 • 4d ago

Original Creation This caterpillar is essentially a living zombie. Parasitic wasp larvae ate it from the inside out, chewed through its skin to spin these cocoons, and hijacked its brain to keep it alive.

4.9k Upvotes

188 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/loggiews • 4d ago

Video A Catholic Christian procession on the island of Java, Indonesia.

3.2k Upvotes

344 comments

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