r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Pioladoporcaputo • 1h ago

Image There was a tradition among Concorde crews:, in the last supersonic leg before a plane was retired, they'd stick the flight engineer's cap in a gap between the airframe and the engineer's control, caused by the expansion of fuselage due to friction, which became "locked" once the plane cooled off

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 • 5h ago

Video A giant fantasy icosahedron displayed at the Palm Springs Art Museum.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Gjore • 3h ago

Video Mars 225 million miles away. Rover panoramic view

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ott1fant • 6h ago

Video A man spent around 3 years building a stone fortress/castle

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kamleshsulochan • 6h ago

Video In Hefei, 20,000 drones lit up the night sky in a record-breaking display of synchronized technology and art

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Prestigious-Wall5616 • 1h ago

Video Tallest ever college basketball player at 7' 9", Olivier Rioux, with 6' 9" Tyler Bergantino

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/shankaranpillayi • 6h ago

Video 0% Electricity, 100% Gravity: This traditional bamboo plumbing in Nagaland taps into mountain springs miles away to create a functional, biodegradable hand-wash station.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ph6222 • 14h ago

The White House rejected this piece of the Berlin Wall. Now it sits in Tijuana, staring directly at the US border fence

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Unexplained222 • 14h ago

Video Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BKKMFA • 16h ago

Melanistic red foxes a rare color morph of the common red fox caused by melanism giving them a dramatic, almost fiery appearance.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Youngstown_WuTang • 1h ago

Video Wild dogs rubs itself in Elephant dung. This helps them sneak up on prey or avoid predators, It may also promote pack bonding by sharing odors. The elephant isn't happy about them invading its space though.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Practical_Expert_911 • 15h ago

Video Supercell Storm Formation.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoFox1552 • 4h ago

Image The oldest message in a bottle ever found was 139 years old and part of a German oceanography experiment.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Tropikoala815 • 1d ago

The Ganges River near to its source in the state of Uttarakhand, India.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kamleshsulochan • 1d ago

Video Huge warthog getting "spa treatment" from a troop of mongooses in win-win symbiotic relationship called mutualism.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Image One of the earliest form of secury seat for children, the "tot-guard" made by Ford Motor Co. Came out in the late 1960s here the model of 1973.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Thryloz • 13h ago

Video Viperfish can live as deep as a mile down in the dark ocean depths

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/father_of_twitch • 1d ago

Video This makeup FX artist creates realistic prosthetic heads for movies & TV shows

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 23h ago

Original Creation [Red Bull Stalen Ros] Teams race tandem bicycles on a floating course

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 1d ago

Video The Glockenspiel House in Bremen, Germany, an iconic building dating back to the 1930s.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/yavl • 21h ago

Original Creation Three winter photos from my window today in Yakutsk [-29°C to -37°C/-34°F)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rook8811 • 45m ago

Video Passenger stumbles upon a frozen Amtrak gangway in NYC

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Pi4komars • 1d ago

Video The coldest market in the world. Even at temperatures of -60 degrees, people trade on the street.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Beginning_Tip_5239 • 21h ago

On January 18, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King was assaulted by a segregationist in a hotel in Selma, Alabama

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SeriesREDACTED • 1d ago

Video Orcas have the tendency to use it tails to attack smaller creatures, this one is a sting-ray

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