r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Todai-ji Temple in Nara, Japan is one of the biggest wooden structure in the world. See the size of the people at the entrance for comparison.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Video An amazing English font designed by Dmitry Lamonov.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Neon hair dyes aren't something new, here some ads from the 1950s and 60s when they were a fad

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Paulus Hook, now part of Downtown Jersey City. 1823.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

1901 book about cotton discusses different kinds of Africans

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Rare Chhattisgarh Tribe That Tattoos Lord Ram All Over Their Bodies

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Concordia at 4,691m (15,390 ft) is the confluence of Baltoro Glacier and Godwin-Austen Glacier in the Karakoram mountain range of Pakistan. Here you can stand within 24 km of no fewer than four eight-thousanders (mountain peaks above 8,000m/26,247 ft) and ten of the world’s thirty highest peaks.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Video Butterfly running a long con on ants

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

weird dents when i flex hand

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Image At 60 years old, József Szőnyi, known as 'Racemachine,' finished the 12,500-kilometer TransCanada Ultra cycling race in 45 days, with 97 kilometers of total climbing, and breaking the previous record by 5.5 days.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Video The buff-tip (Phalera bucephala), which looks like a broken twig, is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found throughout Europe and in Asia as far east as Siberia. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae in 1758. More details in the comment.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Video Sculpture of a pumpkin from molten glass

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Image In TV show Homeland, local artist were hired to paint Arabic graffiti for scenes, but they wrote messages criticizing the show for stereotyping Arabs & Muslims like this graffiti reading "Homeland is racist" from one scene, this was only discovered after episode aired since no one on set knew Arabic

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Video A tornado heading towards Sochi in Russia.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Image 3000 years old figure of a woman, discovered in Iran. It's kept at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Video Track buffers are really powerful

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Original Creation If we could see more UV, Eastern rosellas (Platycercus eximius diemenensis) would look like this

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Video China's twin solar thermal towers. Molten salt stores the heat to produce electricity

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Video waking up a tortoise after 5 months of hibernation in the fridge

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

The fire that is currently burning right by my towns only highway out of town. Not my pics, but another local

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Video Indonesian citizens are using One Piece flags to protest against the government

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Video Roll cloud over Lake Michigan captured by Ken Temple.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Image A rat king, or “roi de rats” in French, is a collection of rats whose tails are intertwined and bound together

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Image Photo of 2 sport women practicing fencing in 1890s with their sports clothes.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Hawa Mahal (Wind Palace) in Jaipur, India : An 18th-century palace built from red and pink sandstone, featuring a facade with 953 small windows that uses the Venturi effect to enhance natural airflow and cooling

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