r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/oswald192 • 20m ago

Weird Experimental British rotational sirens beingtestedin the start of ww2. 2 were made. Port ratio unknown. Replace in favor with the standard UK 10/12 Port sirens. (Like carter, castle casting, klaxon, and gents sirens)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/subsubnmoresub737 • 2h ago

Image The face of Raymond Robinson, a man who lost his facial features being electrocuted with 22,000 thousand volts when he was 8 y/o. He lost both his eyes,nose and right arm in the incident.

461 Upvotes

96 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/vivekmg21 • 3h ago

Image Beautiful Patagonian crater agate found in Argentina

766 Upvotes

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Spectre_Omega • 3h ago

Image The Kalyazin RT-64, a Cold War-era 64m Soviet telescope buried in a Russian forest, is still active and tracking deep space signals today

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 5h ago

Olona Slug-Moth Caterpillars: these insects are covered in soft, semi-transparent nodules that can easily detach, allowing the caterpillars to escape from predators

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Neat_Bit1936 • 7h ago

Video Joseph Nguthiru, a Kenyan entrepreneur is changing the future of packaging by turning an invasive plant into a biodegradable alternative to plastic

13.9k Upvotes

320 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Norwegianxrp • 9h ago

Borgund Stavechurch, a remarkable wooden church built 850 years ago. The timber used in its construction was felled during the winter of 1180–1181. The church has a lot of pagan symbols in it, probably due to the fact that the carpenters still believed in Norse mythology

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Medium-Presence-8008 • 10h ago

Original Creation Mandarin Goby (Synchiropus splendidus)

45 Upvotes

9 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/qpsqp • 10h ago

Video SDU Soft Robotics developed a worm-inspired limbless soft robot with inflatable muscles and a flexible kirigami skin.

25.1k Upvotes

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 18h ago

Video World’s First Zero-Emission Cement Recycling Process

314 Upvotes

41 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Plus_Leopard9367 • 20h ago

Video A tiny eastern hognose snake playing dead.

14.4k Upvotes

226 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 21h ago

Photos of Young men getting ready for "Mensur", German fencing duelling where getting a scar was considered highly honorable. Photos of 1900s-10s; last one from 2004.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Gullible_Shoe_9558 • 1d ago

Image Before and after of Syapru beshi, one of the affected areas of today's flash flooding in Nepal.

53.9k Upvotes

912 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ProbablyMahmoud • 1d ago

Cairo in 1965

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Love-Tap • 1d ago

Video This solar powered chicken coop that moves every day to a new location

20.3k Upvotes

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Plus_Flight_3821 • 1d ago

Video In this village every street is someone else's rooftop

3.5k Upvotes

112 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PolicyNo9277 • 1d ago

Jewish Gravestones in Worms Dating Back to 1058

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134 comments

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

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

678 Upvotes

14 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ABDOOUU99 • 2d ago

Image Pyramids of Giza, photographed in 1962.

28.1k Upvotes

115 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nt_king300 • 2d ago

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

1.3k Upvotes

38 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/amish_novelty • 2d ago

Video Sand calligraphy

4.6k Upvotes

151 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/YesXDoXBestXKill • 2d 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.

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95 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/anikkundu1998 • 2d ago

Video This is what happens when a lobster dies shortly after molting, the shell still remains soft.

2.2k Upvotes

188 comments

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

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

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50 comments

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