r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 7h ago

Video Tomomi Nishikubo's Preparation vs. Result

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mendbinding • 1h ago

Image This image highlights the surgical scars on Captain Smit Machchhar’s head, sustained during his heroic efforts to control Flydubai flight FZ1073, as he arrives to be honored by the Crown Prince of Dubai.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/velveteenEnameled • 21m ago

Image The Empire State Building. Photographed from New Jersey after construction was completed in the 1930s.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OriginalSleeper • 3h ago

Image In August 1929, 14-year-old William Ruppert from Colgate, Maryland, broke the national pole-sitting endurance record by sitting atop an 18-foot flagpole in his family's yard for 23 days.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/King_Of_Spades_158 • 9h ago

A spider web built inside another spider web

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mors_Acerba • 17h ago

Image In 1260 AD, Siena defeated a much larger florentine force at the batte of Montaperti, largely thanks to a couple of florentines who agreed to betray their side by killing their own flag bearers. The 18 meter(60 feet) tall flagpoles were taken as trophies and remain at Siena's cathedral to this day

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AlwaysReady1 • 13h ago

Image A 1950 photo of the sky taken at Palomar observatory shows nine star-like points that weren't there half an hour earlier

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/-chibcha- • 18h ago

This is a male proboscis monkey. Its massive nose acts as a sound amplifier to attract mates and intimidate rivals. These monkeys have webbed feet and are exceptional swimmers, helping them navigate Borneo’s coastal mangroves, rivers, and rainforests.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ClavicusLittleGift4U • 13h ago

Image Rediscovered in 1903, The linear Elamite was one of the oldest syllabus systems along Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs (4200 years). It remained untranslatable until 2022 when a team led by French archeologist and epigraph François Desset finally deciphered it after 18 years of work.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 14h ago

Image Photo of Haitian engineer Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche with wife Juliette Lafargue and family. He was the only person of african descendant to perish on the Titanic (14/04/1912), his wife and children survived. Photo circa 1911 in France.

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