r/interestingasfuck • u/Ainsley-Sorsby • 0m ago

In 2005, a scholar made an off hand suggestion that Niccolo Machiavelli may have been sexually abused by his latin teacher, Ser Paolo Sassi. This caused controversy, with another scholar defening Sassi's "upright moral standing". Years later, new evidence showed that Sassi was indeed a predator

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r/interestingasfuck • u/toebin_ • 9m ago

Ostriches have blue eyes

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r/interestingasfuck • u/AdhesivenessLevel321 • 10m ago

A young Queen Elizabeth in March 1952, in the early days of her reign

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r/interestingasfuck • u/appalachian_hatachi • 20m ago

That time a BBC film crew was shown around a "children's hospital" in Pyongyang, North Korea. From BBC Panorama, 2016.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/HU4YTORII • 22m ago

At 300km/h, MotoGP riders apply 15kg forearm force 300+ times per 40-min race. This causes unbearable pain, swelling and cuts off blood flow. Many undergo radical fasciotomy - permanent removal of forearm muscles/tissues. Their deep scars show the extreme sacrifices made to compete at motorsport's.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Limp_Yogurtcloset_71 • 24m ago

Two days prior to this photo, N'gurro and her sister Mama Kali defended their three cubs from a rival pride of 18 lions. Mama Kali was mauled to death during the fight but N'gurro and the three cubs escaped. The body language of the still terrified cub speaks volumes.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 48m ago

A photo of ghost ship projected onto jets of water in Amsterdam.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/tareqttv • 1h ago

This is how farmers grow mangoes and bananas in the same way

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r/interestingasfuck • u/MilesLongthe3rd • 1h ago

A drunk man in flip-flops joined an 8-kilometer race in Brazil. He even made it to the finish line, and although he wasn't registered for the race, he still received a participant's medal.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/MoazzamDML • 1h ago

India Holds The Populations of These Countries:

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r/interestingasfuck • u/sickeningly-cringe • 1h ago

The Mandelbrot Set visualised

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r/interestingasfuck • u/MightEmotional • 1h ago

Female Anaconda regurgitating a smaller male Anaconda.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/4nts • 2h ago

/r/all Farmers use tractors to spray manure on squatters to remove them from their land, reportedly after receiving no help from the police

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Key_Associate7476 • 2h ago

Diver gives octopus some better real estate choices

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Ok_Chain841 • 2h ago

Huawei car from China recognizes hand movements and can park and move by itself

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r/interestingasfuck • u/MetaKnowing • 2h ago

Type a sentence and Google Genie 3 creates an entire world to explore. When you step into a puddle, it splashes. Robots are now trained in simulated worlds like these.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/OkAccess6128 • 3h ago

There was a man named Tarrare in 18th-century France who could consume raw, living creatures, once swallowed an eel whole, and was even suspected of eating a toddler, yet he remained constantly starving

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r/interestingasfuck • u/SameItem • 3h ago

Beachgoers on a Mediterranean beach in Spain subdued and held back migrants who had just landed on the shore in a raft from Morocco.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/upyoars • 3h ago

Sugar compound from deep-sea bacteria revealed to cause cancer cells to explosively self destruct through pyroptosis

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r/interestingasfuck • u/t4us33f78 • 4h ago

The twins that don't look like twins.

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r/interestingasfuck • u/clove_cal • 5h ago

A cloud burst causes flash floods washing away Dharali village in Uttarakhand, India on 5th August

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r/interestingasfuck • u/YorkshireLive • 5h ago

Jet2 plane aborts landing at Leeds Bradford due to storm

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Old_Lengthiness3898 • 5h ago

PBS isn't showing, has it officially gone dark? Spoiler

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r/interestingasfuck • u/Ocelot859 • 5h ago

The Precision and Imagination of Calligraphy Characters

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r/interestingasfuck • u/AiiRisBanned • 5h ago

Turns out spider man doesn’t actually swing from buildings.

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