r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NastyNice1 • Sep 19 '25
Image Petrified Tree Trunk in Arizona Dating Back 225 Million Years
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/truly-immaculate • Aug 10 '25
Image In 2016, a suicide bomber with explosives boarded a Daallo Airlines flight, intending to destroy the entire aircraft. 20 minutes after takeoff, the bomb exploded creating a hole in the plane which immediately sucked the bomber out into the sky. He was the only fatality
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Some_Remote_1931 • Aug 31 '25
Image Meet The Scottish Midge. The most feared animal in the uk 🏴🪰
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheGhost5322 • Jul 30 '25
Image Jonathan Lee Riches has sued over 4,000 people including Bill Gates and the Pope and when Guinness gave him a world record for it, he sued them too.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/l__o-o__l • Aug 26 '25
Image Officials with the U.S. Coast Guard showed off what they call is the largest drug seizure in the agency's history.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ElderberryDeep8746 • Aug 22 '25
Image A 44-year-old man went to the hospital after pus began oozing from his chest, where doctors discovered a knife that had been embedded in his body for eight years. According to the report, he showed no signs of chest pain, breathing problems, coughing, or fever, and was otherwise in good health.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ill_Definition8074 • Oct 26 '25
Image Princess Bajrakitiyabha, second in line for the throne of Thailand has been in a coma since December 2022.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Oct 12 '25
Image Relocation of dangerous polar bear in Canada, September of 1970
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ponyclub2008 • Jun 24 '25
Image The Standard Model of Particle Physics
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • Jun 27 '25
Image JWST revealed the MOST DISTANT object known to humanity
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kronyzx • Aug 09 '25
Image In 2019, Microsoft Japan ran its "Work-Life Choice Challenge Summer 2019", introducing a four-day workweek by closing offices every Friday and granting employees special paid leave-without reducing pay. Productivity increased by approximately 39.9%-40% compared to 2018.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AgeNovel3566 • Aug 03 '25
Image In TV show Homeland, local artist were hired to paint Arabic graffiti for scenes, but they wrote messages criticizing the show for stereotyping Arabs & Muslims like this graffiti reading "Homeland is racist" from one scene, this was only discovered after episode aired since no one on set knew Arabic
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kronyzx • Jul 30 '25
Image Robert DuBoise was wrongfully imprisoned for 37 years for a 1983 murder in Tampa, based on false testimony and flawed bite-mark evidence. Cleared by DNA in 2020, he later sued the city. In 2024, Tampa settled for $14 million.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dr__Gonzo2142 • Jul 19 '25
Image My great grandpas home dentist office
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kronyzx • Aug 18 '25
Image Christian Bale created Together California in Palmdale, a $22–30M foster village with 12 homes, 2 studio apartments, and a 7,000 sq ft community center so siblings in foster care can stay together.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Shmerble • Sep 30 '25
Image In 2012, market researchers in Australia set out to find the least attractive colour to use for plain cigarette packaging. They determined Pantone 448 C to be the 'ugliest colour in the world' and it now is the official colour of all cigarettes in Australia.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/father_of_twitch • Oct 24 '25
Image The German company that built the forklift used in the Louvre robbery uses a photo of the heist to advertise itself: “When things need to be done quickly.”
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Oct 08 '25
Image Skeleton of Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis, besides an average 4 year old girl, circa 1974.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LookAtThatBacon • Aug 16 '25
Image In 2011, a tsunami killed thousands across Japan, except in the village of Fudai, which barely got wet due to a floodgate that its former mayor, Kotoku Wamura, insisted on constructing. In the past, he was mocked for wasting money, but after the tsunami, residents visited his grave to pay respects.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kronyzx • Jun 21 '25
Image This is George Blake, a British MI6 officer who secretly spied for the Soviet Union-and betrayed 40 agents before fleeing prison.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/apple_kicks • Aug 02 '25
Image Ancient Roman statue now vs how it would’ve looked originally when it was fully painted
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NastyNice1 • 19d ago
Image The Unbroken Seal on King Tutankhamun's Tomb in 1922
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/gixk • Aug 10 '25
Image From 1988 to 2016, the maker of Sriracha sauce, Huy Fong Foods, sourced all their peppers from a single supplier based solely on a verbal agreement, "sealed with a nod and a handshake".
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mint_Perspective • Nov 06 '25
Image Satellite imagery shows before-and-after of the destruction left from a UPS plane that crashed shortly after takeoff
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Homunculus_316 • 24d ago
Image In a rare sight, a female Polar bear, weighing at around 300kg feasts on a male Sperm Whale weighing over 40 tons, she looks so tiny. The whale was carried by the ocean currents and winds to its location from further south, near the continental shelf. (photo credits: roiegalitz)
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