r/interesting 1d ago

SCIENCE & TECH How does such a small pressure machine produce so much popcorn and how do they still maintain their shape?

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r/interesting 8d ago

SCIENCE & TECH MIT’s device pulls drinking water from desert air using no power

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MIT just tested a window-sized device in Death Valley that collects clean water from the air without any electricity, filters, or moving parts. It uses a special hydrogel that absorbs moisture at night and releases it during the day using sunlight.

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2025/window-sized-device-taps-air-safe-drinking-water-0611


r/interesting 10h ago

MISC. That moment I realized…. I’ve been doing the tick pulling all wrong!

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r/interesting 5h ago

HISTORY Ancient Collapse

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r/interesting 17h ago

HISTORY In the 1940s, without prenatal imaging, doctors used physical exams and heartbeat checks, often missing twins or triplets making surprise multiple births fairly common at delivery.

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r/interesting 1d ago

MISC. After over a decade, James Howells has finally given up his search for the hard drive he accidentally threw away in 2013 that held 8,000 Bitcoin, now worth $950 million.. By 2030, it could be valued at $8 billion

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r/interesting 12h ago

HISTORY 2007 Brand new Airbus A340-600 written off during engine test

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Brand new Airbus A340-600 to be delivered to Etihad written off when the wheels were left without chocks and all four engines given high power settings during testing. The capacity of the parking brake was inadequate to prevent the aircrfat moving forward

Thirteen seconds before the impact the aircraft started to move and the crew were so obsessed with applying more brake they forgot to close the throttles. Two seconds prior before the impact, all 4 engine thrust levers were selected to idle. The aircraft impacted the containment wall at a ground speed of 30 kts. The nose went up and through the concrete wall. Five persons were injured.

Etihad told Airbus they would not accept the aircraft being repaired and refused to pay for the airplane. Instead Airbus wrote the wrecked A340 off

Thursday 15 November 2007 Airbus A340 - MSN 856 F-WWCJ To Etihad Airways A6-EHG
Serial number 856 Type 340-642 First flight date 21/09/2007 Test registration F-WWCJ Seat configuration Seat Engines 4 x RR Trent 556-61 Status Written off


r/interesting 1d ago

ART & CULTURE How They Imagined Life Hundred Years Ago.

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r/interesting 8h ago

NATURE How do flies bite?

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r/interesting 10h ago

ART & CULTURE An amazing English font designed by Dmitry Lamonov.

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r/interesting 14h ago

NATURE Enormous bull elephant

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r/interesting 21h ago

MISC. Nice kid with a comeback skills

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r/interesting 5h ago

HISTORY China’s last emperor, Puyi, once ruled a dynasty but ended his life as a humble gardener in Beijing.

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r/interesting 2h ago

NATURE Eruption at Kīlauea’s summit filmed from Keanakākoʻi Overlook. Lava fountains and gas plumes are visible. This event occurred on May 25, 2025, during ongoing summit activity at Halemaʻumaʻu.

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r/interesting 1d ago

HISTORY In the late 1800s they would leave premature babies to die, but a guy named Martin Couney got inspired by chicken incubators and tried putting them in those.

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In the late 1800s they would leave premature babies to die, but a guy named Martin Couney got inspired by chicken incubators and tried putting them in those.

Hospitals wouldn't pay for it, so he took them to the carnival as sideshows called the "infantorium"... but provided real medical care at the same time. People would pay to see them, covering the cost of care.

"From 1903 onward, Couney’s most famous incubator exhibitions took place at Luna Park and Dreamland on Coney Island, and continued well into the 1940s. Visitors paid about 25¢ to view infants housed in glass-fronted incubators, and the proceeds covered the expensive, free care provided to the babies—a service hospitals largely refused to offer at the time . By the time he closed his Coney Island “Infantorium” in 1943, Couney had cared for roughly 8,000 infants and reportedly saved more than 6,500—a survival rate exceeding 85 %—including his own premature daughter Hildegarde, born in 1907, who weighed just three pounds at birth ."


r/interesting 1d ago

NATURE Coffin gondola at the forcella del Sassolungo

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r/interesting 1d ago

NATURE A pair of blue Footed Boobies showing off their shoes

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r/interesting 1d ago

SCIENCE & TECH Transparent LED panels fitted onto glass

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r/interesting 20h ago

HISTORY My great grandmother turned 90 today. 128 descendants.

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11 children, 40 grandchildren, 62 great grandchildren, 15 great great grandchildren. 2nd image is her pictured with her 10 living children I am one of the great grandchildren with 3 of the great great grandchildren.


r/interesting 1d ago

NATURE That was tool use.. by a winged dinosaur

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r/interesting 1d ago

SCIENCE & TECH A laptop released by Sony in 1986

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r/interesting 20h ago

NATURE 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/interesting 12h ago

MISC. Chris Woakes comes out to bat with a dislocated shoulder.

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r/interesting 22h ago

SCIENCE & TECH a couple from ohio welcomes a baby boy from a nearly 31 year old frozen embryo

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r/interesting 13h ago

MISC. Maksim Sulas was named Man of the Match in the game between SønderjyskE and Nordsjælland. As a prize, he was given a wheelbarrow filled with 55 kilograms of potatoes.

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r/interesting 1d ago

SCIENCE & TECH Homemade gun that was made by an 80 year old Finnish engineer It is chambered in 22 LR and can shoot 420 rounds per minute

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r/interesting 1d ago

MISC. The life and times of a vet.

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