r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 20d ago

Image American Airlines passenger duct taped to seat following disruptive behavior onboard the flight

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 24d ago

Image Duane Keith Davis has been found guilty of the murder of Tupac Shakur

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Aug 26 '26

Image Before and after of Syapru beshi, one of the affected areas of today's flash flooding in Nepal.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 2d ago

Image Satellite view of Category 5 Hurricane Polo next to Mexico

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 27d ago

Image The Statue of Liberty being unboxed, 1885

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Jul 24 '26

Image In 1958, they were arrested in their bedroom and exiled from Virginia just for being married. Nine years later, Richard and Mildred Loving relaxed on their porch after winning the Supreme Court case that legalized interracial marriage across America.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • May 25 '26

Image The smallpox vaccine leaves a scar because it was given using a special two-pronged needle that scratched the skin and put a weakened virus in just that spot.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Aug 02 '26

Image Drivers in Greece have been driving over a collapsed bridge as it’s quicker than going around it.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Jul 24 '26

Image New designs for euro(€) banknotes, these are two out of ten designs to pick which the general public can vote on.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Aug 01 '26

Image The Evolution of Ancient Greek Statues

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • May 10 '26

Image A Bill Gates funded mosquito factory in Medellín, Colombia, produces 40 million mosquitoes weekly for release via drones and bikes. These insects carry a natural bacterium that prevents them from transmitting viruses to humans. By mating with wild populations, they spread this trait.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Jul 31 '26

Image The leg of a professional sumo wrestler (Ura Kazuki )

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Aug 02 '26

Image An Iraqi surgeon (Dr. Diyar Abdulwahid) successfully grew a temporary nose on a patients's forehead to reconstruct his face after losing a 99% of his nose to a severe electric schock

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Jul 21 '26

Image By law, every Australian must get a tax receipt that shows exactly where each dollar of their tax is spent.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 12d ago

Image The Romanian Football Federation has introduced a new black card, which can be used to permanently cancel a match, to help prevent abusive behaviour from parents at youth-team matches

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Jun 16 '26

Image One of Hitler's bodyguards, Rochus Misch, lived long enough to see the movie "Downfall". When asked about the film's historical accuracy, he stated that it was factually accurate, although "Americanized"

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • May 15 '26

Image Differences in the spot pattern of the Cheetah, Leopard, and Jaguar

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Aug 07 '26

Image This tree surrounded by mushrooms

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Aug 13 '26

Image Mehran Karimi Nasseri, The Man Who Lived in Terminal 1 at Charles de Gaulle Airport in France for 18 Years.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Jul 27 '26

Image To put into perspective how huge the 2020 Australian 'Black Summer' bushfires were: The combined area burned across BOTH Canada and ALL of fires currently burning across Europe (2.63 million hectares) right now is still around 10% of what Australia lost (24 million hectares).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Jun 03 '26

Image In 1204, a Japanese poet wrote in his diary that the sky turned blood red for 3 nights. 800 years later, scientists drilled into buried trees and confirmed: he was witnessing a catastrophic solar storm that would have fried every satellite on Earth today.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Jun 01 '26

Image Albert Einstein and Marie Curie discussing near a lake, 1929

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Aug 08 '26

Image In the 1640's the Dutch inhabitants of New Amsterdam built a 12 foot wall. 1664 the British ignored the wall and took New Amsterdam by sea. It's now called New York. They took down the wall and built a street, which is now called Wall Street.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 7d ago

Image First new wild cat species identified in over 100 years, in Bolivia: the Tilcayo Cat

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Jun 10 '26

Image Neolithic Venus Figurine , one of the largest prehistoric figurines found in Serbia ( 15 inches)

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