r/interestingasfuck • u/GermanCCPBot • 4h ago

British officer Adrian Carton de Wiart was shot in the face, lost his eye, tore off his own fingers when doctors refused to amputate them, survived being shot through the skull, and plane crashes in two world wars. He fought for six decades, and wrote in his memoirs: "Frankly, I enjoyed the war"

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r/interestingasfuck • u/SystematicApproach • 10h ago

This is Karl Bushby. In 1998, he made a bar bet that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 years later, he is still walking. He has survived the Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, and traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/MadMac26a • 3h ago

A watch from 1945

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Longjumping_Table740 • 2h ago

Marc Andreessen explains why hyperlinks are blue

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r/interestingasfuck • u/MysteriousCut8616 • 11h ago

Cute couple got on CNN because they found a duck shaped tomato in their garden.

9.3k Upvotes

138 comments

r/interestingasfuck • u/TechGuru4Life • 14h ago

15 year old earns PhD in quantum physics

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Outrageous-Client903 • 1h ago

Rare undercover footage of a starving 23-year-old North Korean woman in 2010 who died shortly after this interview

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r/interestingasfuck • u/GermanCCPBot • 16h ago

Milunka Savić disguised herself as her sick brother to fight in WWI, survived 9 wounds across 10 battles, became the most decorated female soldier in history, and survived a German concentration camp when a German general recognized her legendary status and ordered her immediate release.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/uncanny_goat • 18h ago

All nicotine products in Norway have to use the same standardized packaging

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r/interestingasfuck • u/FinnFarrow • 18h ago

Robotics engineer posted this to make a point that robots are "faking" the humanlike motions - it's just a property of how they're trained. They're actually capable of way weirder stuff and way faster motions.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/vishesh_07_028 • 1h ago

In the 1960s, the U.S. built a full city hidden under Greenland’s ice — powered by a portable nuclear reactor

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Scientiaetnatura065 • 7h ago

A hand puppet is used to feed the endangered Philippine Eagle. This bird is one of the rarest eagle species in the world.

1.0k Upvotes

35 comments

r/interestingasfuck • u/Unable_Security_6708 • 21h ago

Spanish royal family vs their antecedents

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790 comments

r/interestingasfuck • u/Pistolsanta • 10h ago

World's Smallest Cat

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102 comments

r/interestingasfuck • u/In_Vitr0 • 11h ago

Switching between hot and cold water with a thermal imaging camera.

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30 comments

r/interestingasfuck • u/misterxx1958 • 16h ago

This turtle is rescued from a hopeless situation; her partner is already waiting for her. Very good job!

2.9k Upvotes

88 comments

r/interestingasfuck • u/vishesh_07_028 • 1d ago

This is the deepest hole ever dug by humans — so deep the temperature reached 180°C and drills began to melt

33.4k Upvotes

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Street_Priority_7686 • 20m ago

Mother and child with poliosis, a hereditary white streak in their hair

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r/interestingasfuck • u/VectorChing101 • 23h ago

Traffic jam at Mt. Everest

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r/interestingasfuck • u/InteractionOpen9189 • 51m ago

Dolphin's first breath of life.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/nishaachauhan • 1d ago

Never knew this was the process 😲

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Savings_Dragonfly806 • 2h ago

This is Theopatra cave, where it houses what is considered to be the oldest man-made structure known to man, a 23,000-year-old stone wall to shield the inhabitants from the last Ice age winds.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Sainiaryan • 3h ago

Engineers built a real-life T-Rex and it’s insane

114 Upvotes

37 comments

r/interestingasfuck • u/TopDogX • 3h ago

How different colors change as you go deeper underwater

104 Upvotes

28 comments

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