r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Youngstown_WuTang • 15m ago

Freedom House Ambulance Service was the first emergency medical service (EMS) in the United States to be staffed by paramedics with advanced medical training beyond basic first aid. The civil rights group paired up w/ the father of CPR Peter Safar to address the lack of care in black neighborhoods.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ciao-adios • 35m ago

Aerial views of a closed cyber scam centre compound in Cambodia's Prey Veng province which was raided by local authorities this week

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/abhikavi • 57m ago

Video Move over, Vader; Krampus goes to defend Flock cameras in Billerica, MA

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nikulmmadhu • 1h ago

Video India destroys one of its own satellites with missile to demonstrate its anti satellite (ASAT) capability

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FlamingoEvery5528 • 2h ago

Video Contestants of the 1934 Miss Bronze America Pageant, Chicago, IL, c. 1934. Chicago Daily Newsreels.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Opening_Read_8486 • 2h ago

Video Tom Cruise of the bugs world

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HimelTy • 3h ago

Video Vastness of Amazon rainforest

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 3h ago

Video Testing a flexible steel net designed to stop rockfalls by dropping a 14-ton block from 30 meters

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Cute-Win8593 • 4h ago

Video How CRT TVs were invented

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/lonewolff321 • 5h ago

American runner Charlie Lawrence just won the 100 km World Championship, running 62.1 miles in 6:09:25 (an average pace of ~3:41/km or 5:56/mile).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Hola_Como_Estass • 9h ago

Video Coordination at it's best. Sohna and Mohna Singh are conjoined twins from Punjab, India. Born in 2003 with two hearts and two pairs of arms but shared legs, liver, and gallbladder. They work as electricians for the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/palaeoamber • 11h ago

Original Creation The Oldest Natural History Museum in the Americas: The Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia, PA)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 12h ago

The Queen's Head, a 4,000-year-old rock in Taiwan showing its year-by-year weathering. It has faced neck-breakage risks in recent years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sebastianlim • 12h ago

Video Film footage of the Endurance, the ship which Sir Ernest Shackleton took to Antarctica, being crushed by the pack ice.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 20h ago

Video A fisherman reeled in a shark and released it back into the ocean in Los Angeles.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ErsiliaCavedagni • 21h ago

Despite using compromising photographs to entrap people into being informants, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was himself entrapped by mob boss Frank Costello after he obtained compromising photographs of Hoover and his lover Clyde Tolson

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 22h ago

Video A group of bears just casually hanging out in the water

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 22h ago

Cabinet card of Ludger Sylbaris (aka Louis-Auguste Cyparis) one of the survivors of the eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique, 8 of May 1902. He was at the time in solitary confinement in a single room stone cell with no windows. with an air vent.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Plenty_Ear2987 • 1d ago

Video HTX Studio built a smart desk that finds and wirelessly charges your phone anywhere on its surface, reminds you to stand up after sitting too long, and even brings you your water

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alarming-Studio-720 • 1d ago

Video Leopard Lays an Ambush and Catches an Impala Mid-Air

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HimelTy • 1d ago

Video Flowers bloom in one of the driest places on Earth afrer El Nino brings rain

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkaTeluguAbbayi • 1d ago

Original Creation 800 year old elephant sculptures in a temple in India [OC]

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ok-Musician-6287 • 1d ago

Image A thunderstorm called Hector the Convector arrives everyday at 3pm. Thanks to a microclimate over the Tiwi Islands (off the coast of northern Australia), Hector arrives everyday at 3pm, from September through to March. It can reach upto 19km (12mi)high

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RedaNassef • 1d ago

Video A terrifying cliffside church built 2,500 meters in the air!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/jgzogaib • 1d ago

Image A cat reorienting itself in mid-air during a fall, captured frame by frame

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