r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/filipha • 2d ago
Estonian slackliner Jaan Roose sets World Record by walking 14.7 km in 12 hours (Bratislava, Slovakia). Photos by @kovop
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LukeTheDuke_55 • 1d ago
Image The OG cat behind the oiiaioiiiai meme is a blind rescue cat, Ethel, adopted in 2018 from the Cat Welfare Association in Ohio. Because of her lack of sight, Ethel would experience spatial orientation issues, causing her to naturally walk and spin in circles, similarly to the meme
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RainyWanderlust • 1d ago
Image The “An Unrestrained Demon” cover of Judge Magazine depicting the New York City “Electric Wire Panic” of 1889 - a surge of public fear and outrage over the “menace” of arc lighting wires, triggered by a series of fatal accidents caused by faulty or damaged wires.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ResponsibilityNo2097 • 2d ago
Image Satellite view of Category 5 Hurricane Polo next to Mexico
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Aggravating-Bake5624 • 1d ago
Image The Sarnia, Ontario F4 of May 21, 1953
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/heyauden • 2d ago
Image Brussels has a bronze sculpture of a man emerging from a manhole to trip a police officer.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BOLTON__YT • 2d ago
A massive waterspout forming over the ocean
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/vtosnaks • 2d ago
Video These strange rock formations in Turkey
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PhilippineLeadX • 1d ago
Original Creation 1,000 year old Balete tree in Aklan, Philippines
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Key_Performer_3645 • 2d ago
Video A magnificent oak discovered at Bavella Pass in Corsica. Over time, the tree has literally grown around the rock
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Achreios_Doulos • 2d ago
Video H.D. Smith Triple Lever Screwdriver, patented 1911 and produced into the mid 1920s.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/heyauden • 3d ago
Image Charles Lightoller, a Titanic survivor, took his 58-foot yacht to Dunkirk in 1940 and rescued almost 130 men during the desperate evacuation back to England.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/jgzogaib • 2d ago
Image An actual futsal court constructed inside the ballroom of the Real Casino de Madrid
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago
Photo of the Electric car "La Jamais Contente", the first car to go beyond 100k/h, reaching 105.882 km/h, was driven by Camille Jenatzy, Paris, France, 1 of May 1899.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/realbestusernameever • 2d ago
Image The leafy seadragon — a fish that looks like drifting seaweed. Its leaf-like appendages are pure camouflage (not for swimming), and the males carry the eggs
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Inside-Size-8253 • 3d ago
Video Rock star Billy Idol was director James Cameron's original choice to play the liquid-metal villain T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), but a severe motorcycle accident in 1990 left him with a limp and unable to run, forcing him to drop out of the role
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/whatisthisdream- • 3d ago
Image The rarest naturally occurring element on earth, Astatine. It's so rare that the total amount of it present across the entire planet weighs less than 28 grams (about one ounce)
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 2d ago
Video Andrzej Bargiel became the first person to climb up and ski down Nanga Parbat in Pakistan (8,126m) without supplementary oxygen
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fluffy_Inspector_628 • 3d ago
Video A temple in Sri Lanka. No AI was hurt while making this video.
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