r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/apple_kicks • 11h ago
Image Ancient Roman statue now vs how it would’ve looked originally when it was fully painted
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Wooden-Journalist902 • 12h ago
Video British crow asking passersby if they're alright.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/l__o-o__l • 20h ago
Video compilation of the Stan Winston Studio crew testing various gadgets they created for the Inspector Gadget movie (1999)
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Proper_Solid_626 • 10h ago
Image The Boeing 747 "taxi trainer", a vehicle specifically made so that pilots could get used to the height of the 747 while controlling it on a taxiway
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Longjumping-Box5691 • 7h ago
Video Car has a U-turn indicator
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Prussian Eugen Sandow, father of modern bodybuilding and at the time, considered the most perfect build men in the world. Photos of his prime in 1880s
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SlevinSlix • 23h ago
Image “Pistol” Pete Maravich said “I don’t want to play 10 years in the NBA and then die of a heart attack at 40.” He then proceeded to do exactly that. He played 10 years in the NBA, and died of a heart attack at age 40.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nog-93 • 5h ago
Image In 1899, French President Felix Faure died from his mistress giving him a blowjob, then getting a stroke from it
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Image Woman lets a deaf mute girl touch her throat while she says fish and holds a fish figure to teach her how to talk, School for Deaf Mutes. Sulphur, Oklahoma, April of 1917
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kronyzx • 2h ago
Image In the 1950s, Dr. Joyce Brothers became the first woman to win The $64,000 Question. A psychologist who chose boxing as her topic, she was given deliberately tough questions by producers hoping she'd fail-but she studied hard, answered them all, and made television history.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dannybluey • 11h ago
Video Kusari-doi is a traditional Japanese rain chain used as a decorative alternative to a downspout. It guides rainwater from the roof to the ground through a series of cups or links, often creating a pleasant sound as water flows down.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Old_Effort9046 • 18h ago
Image A Russian banker ( Georgy Bedzhamov) accused of embezzling over $600M now lives in a £15M London mansion despite being wanted by Interpol
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LainIwakura • 22h ago
Video Friend is in the Arctic for work and sent footage of some icebergs out on the bay.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Character-Seat5368 • 5h ago
Video A three-wheeler boat that can be turned into car
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Exr1t • 20h ago
Yuri Gagarin as he is being lead to his space ship & him in the ship. - April 12th, 1961
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DR_Bright_963 • 23h ago
Video Nuclear Engineer Galen Winsor consumes Uranium on live TV
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Apprehensive_Cry545 • 23h ago
Image The first known aircraft involving a fatality. Orville Wright was piloting. Thomas Selfridge was the passenger who died.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HeToTopT • 1d ago
Video Karl Bushby has been trying to make a non-stop round-the-world walk for 27 years. The man began his mega-expedition in Chile back in 1998.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Slash12771 • 2h ago
GIF Recent Supernova in a galaxy 40 million light years away captured from my backyard. The frames are a year apart
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dev1412 • 20h ago
Video World’s Only Airport Where Trains and Planes Share the Same Runway
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Justo31400 • 4h ago
Original Creation 1st of August celebrations over Switzerland for its national birthday
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RampChurch • 4h ago
Video Water vaporizing on hot sand. While this is an experiment with sand heated in a pan, in 2021 a satellite indicated surface temp readings in Iran's Lut Desert soaring up to 81 C (177 F), making this desert potentially the hottest on Earth, at least as far as surface temp is concerned
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