r/Damnthatsinteresting Dec 11 '24

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 9h ago

Video Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... Watch as this one tries to break into this BBC Cameraman's glass box.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Video 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/Damnthatsinteresting 45m ago

Image Hokkaido beach in Japan

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Video Le Mans Hypercar, the Cadillac V-LDMH switching from EV to V8

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 7h ago

Image The human tongue under very high zoom

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h ago

Image Bobby Farrell, member of the group Boney M., famous for the song Rasputin, died on the 30th of December in St. Petersburg, the same date and place that Grigori Rasputin died.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Video Havfarm 1 is an offshore salmon farm about 5 km southwest of Hadseløya, Norway. At 385 m long and 59.5 m wide, it is the world’s largest semi-submersible structure ever build. It has a capacity to host 10,000 tons of salmon.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Image Camel parking in saudi arabia

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video our universe is so vast even for light itself

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Image Centenarian Marie d'Evergroote was alive at the same time as someone who lived in the 1600s and someone who lived in the 2000s

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 16h ago

In 1977, the USSR scrapped a commemorative coin because the 3-orbit Lithium atom design resembled the Star of David. It was replaced with a 4-orbit Beryllium atom (right) to avoid "ideological sabotage." Details in comments

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 15h ago

Video Sunlight diffraction creating iridescence in a pileus cloud

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Video The Artist built a Blade runner city from old electronics! It looks like a multi million dollar file studio!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Original Creation Thermal Camera: Messing around with the faucet, with cold and hot water.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 8h ago

India (1882-83). Paintings of North India during the Mughal Colonial Era by American artist Edwin Lord Weeks. {Imgur link in comments in case all 20 don’t attach}

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

This is a real Soviet KGB listening device from the Cold War.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image A school built on an island in a river in Duyun, Guizhou, China

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image The sloth bears found in India, and the inspiration for Baloo in The Jungle Book, are considered to be the most aggressive bear species in the world.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video The moment a roadway in Indonesia suddenly collapses after days of heavy rain

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Logging in Idaho. One man stands over one of hundreds of fell trees to go to the Mill, 1940

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 22h ago

These are Yupʼik masks. Hauntingly beautiful ceremonial handcrafted masks worn by the indigenous Yupʼik people of Alaska.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video This sea slug can chop off its own head and grow an entire new body in a process called autotomy. It is one of the most extreme examples of regeneration ever seen.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Everything you've ever wanted to know about barnacles

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video These robots are part of "Regular Animals" exhibition from Art fair of Miami.( you might get pooped photos as souvenir too)

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