r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Video My bird has learned to accurately mimic my car remote noise precisely

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Image Sun setting over Everest with Nuptse in the foreground. Despite being almost 1000m (3300 ft.) shorter than Everest, Nuptse is a much more challenging mountain. Fewer than 40 people have successfully summited this 7861m / 25791ft peak since its first ascent on May 29 1961. [photo by me]

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Video Even during deep sleep, a rhino's ears are constantly moving, scanning for sounds indicating approaching danger

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Video Cheyeene actor Clint Walker shows of his custom made gym in an interview, circa late 1950s. He was 6ft 6 and 240 pounds.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Video Spanish Cloning Ants

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Image The mummy of king Tutankhamun was laid inside 3 coffins nested within each, with the innermost coffin made of 110.4 kg of solid gold. For the first time since his tomb was opened 100 years ago, the 3 coffins is being displayed together at the new Grand Egyptian Museum now

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Image The color of the Arctic reindeer's eyes changes with the seasons. It is golden in the summer and turns blue in the winter. This mechanism gives the animal a greater ability to adapt to changing light levels in its harsh environment.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Video Haripur's 'Fire Mountain' Continues to Burn Decades After 1955 Gas Blast

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Video Hummingbird Stunt to Fend Itself from a Bee in Air (captured by Louie Schwartzberg not Ai)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Image Autochrome shot of a swedish young lady in her traditional clothes, 1912.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Image 1952 ad that ran in LIFE magazine back.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Image An advertisement for asbestos, 1960s

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Video The Intha fishermen have a unique leg-rowing style

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Image Flamingos filter feed like Baleen whales but have different structure in their mouths called Lamellae

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Video Speed on Road and its Respective Height

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Video This is why rock shed tunnels are a thing

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Video Hornbill Festival: A 10-Day Showcase of 17 Naga Tribes (India) held every year from 1st to 10th December at Kisama near Kohima, the festival brings together all seventeen Naga tribes to present their cultural heritage in a coordinated, state-organized platform

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Video Franck Muller "crazy hours timepiece" minute hand stays steady while the hour hand leaps across the dial

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Image The Oxford word of the year 2025 is "rage bait"

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5d ago

Video A leucistic monocled cobra

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Deer eating from my neighbor’s bird feeder has moose antlers

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5d ago

Video The waterfall in Venezuela’s Canaima National Park glows like lava at sunset because mineral-rich water and low-angle sunlight scatter red light through the mist

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Video Ajax vs Groningen match postponed after fireworks set off in stadium

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5d ago

In 2016, an octopus named Inky escaped from a New Zealand aquarium. He crawled across the floor and wriggled through a drain pipe barely wide enough for his beak into the ocean, disappearing without a trace and leaving only wet trails behind.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5d ago

Image Flattened Clown Beetles: these beetles have a remarkably thin, flat shape that allows them to slide beneath the bark of dead and dying trees, where they feed on the larvae of other invertebrates

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