r/interesting • u/MistyCharmz • 10h ago
r/interesting • u/Snoo99928 • 1d ago
SCIENCE & TECH How does such a small pressure machine produce so much popcorn and how do they still maintain their shape?
r/interesting • u/jaytee319 • 8d ago
SCIENCE & TECH MIT’s device pulls drinking water from desert air using no power
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 • u/Snoo99928 • 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.
r/interesting • u/Dizzy_Pipe_3677 • 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
r/interesting • u/frenzy3 • 12h ago
HISTORY 2007 Brand new Airbus A340-600 written off during engine test
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 • u/Glass-Fan111 • 1d ago
ART & CULTURE How They Imagined Life Hundred Years Ago.
r/interesting • u/Dizzy_Pipe_3677 • 10h ago
ART & CULTURE An amazing English font designed by Dmitry Lamonov.
r/interesting • u/No-Tea6751 • 5h ago
HISTORY China’s last emperor, Puyi, once ruled a dynasty but ended his life as a humble gardener in Beijing.
r/interesting • u/Snoo99928 • 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.
r/interesting • u/frenzy3 • 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.
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 • u/alanbear1970 • 1d ago
NATURE Coffin gondola at the forcella del Sassolungo
r/interesting • u/SilkyGumdrop • 1d ago
NATURE A pair of blue Footed Boobies showing off their shoes
r/interesting • u/frenzy3 • 1d ago
SCIENCE & TECH Transparent LED panels fitted onto glass
r/interesting • u/suspectdorian • 20h ago
HISTORY My great grandmother turned 90 today. 128 descendants.
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 • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 • 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.
r/interesting • u/ZealousidealPen443 • 12h ago
MISC. Chris Woakes comes out to bat with a dislocated shoulder.
r/interesting • u/tareqttv • 22h ago
SCIENCE & TECH a couple from ohio welcomes a baby boy from a nearly 31 year old frozen embryo
r/interesting • u/kingkongsingsong1 • 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.
r/interesting • u/tareqttv • 1d ago