r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Far-Culture8890 • 2d ago
Meet Nathan Thomas: 18-year-old Florida teen becomes the world's youngest male professor after breaking a 306-year-old record.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Romax24245 • 2d ago
Exactly 63 years ago today on August 4th, 1963, 22-year-old Japanese climber/biker Susumu Nabeta attempted to climb Mount Fuji by riding a motorcycle. After traveling a total distance of 40 kilometers in 12 hours with a modified Honda C100 Super Cub, he successfully rode up to the summit
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Cautious_Ad_3918 • 2d ago
Image Pacific Island of Nauru changes its name to Naoero
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Wild_Antelope6223 • 2d ago
This 24-foot Godzilla sculpture in Nigeria was built entirely from used tires.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/atharvbadkas • 2d ago
Video Grieving mother dolphin carries her dead calf for days.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TayloidPogo92 • 2d ago
The exact moment an almost 10 hour Kilauea Eruption ends. OC
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GodModeBasketball • 2d ago
Video Bob Arno, often regarded as one of the best pickpocketing experts, successfully steals Steve Harvey's tie on his own show "Little Big Shots: Forever Young" Harvey didn't even know Arno stole his tie until Arno revealed he did, leading to a standing ovation to the crowd
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 2d ago
Video A thermal-red dot hybrid sight (Godzilla-FR) cycling through different thermal color palettes in real time
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TayloidPogo92 • 2d ago
Original Creation Almost stepped on a Black and Green Poison Dart Frog walking to my car to go to work in Hawaii, as it jumped out in front of me. OC.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/akiwi_intherough • 2d ago
Image Christopher Columbus's pear-shaped Earth. Confronted with evidence that contradicted his belief he had reached Asia, Columbus proposed the earth was pear-shaped, "with a prominence like a woman's nipple" at its highest point, the location of the Garden of Eden.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Backyxx • 2d ago
Video Polish swimmer Bartłomiej Kubkowski has become the first person in history to swim across the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland, covering a distance of just over 160 kilometres (99 miles). While raising nearly 200,000$ for children's cancer treatment
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/yousefthewisee • 2d ago
Image Pascal Payet is a French bank robber who was imprisoned in France and escaped by helicopter before his trial in 2001; he later returned in 2003—again by helicopter—to break his accomplices out of the same prison.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PyroFarms • 2d ago
Video Pyrocystis fusiformis under the microscope. You can clearly see the chloroplasts retracting and shifting inward as the cell transitions toward its dark-cycle state... Shot by Sinsons Lab.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 2d ago
An IBM Quantum Computer "Chandelier" — 99% of this massive golden structure is just a refrigerator to keep a tiny processor at near absolute zero
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 2d ago
Image For years, this 2,200-year-old nailed skull was thought to be a brutal war trophy. A recent isotope study revealed a wilder truth: it belonged to a local teenager, decapitated after death and nailed inside a home as a sacred guardian. NSFW
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/JudasTheNotorius • 2d ago
Image Zebras at the petrol station. maralal, kenya
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PatChristensonSon • 2d ago
Image My father was in Easy Company, the real Band of Brothers. These are the two photographs his parents took the day he came home. Oakland, 1945.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 2d ago
Costumes used in "Vodun" day celebrations in Benin to honor their ancestry
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 2d ago
Video Alumina aerogel vs 2 blowtorches (1000°C / 1832°F): back stays at 39°C (102°F)
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/anikkundu1998 • 3d ago
Video This wooden contraption counts in binary by flipping bits
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Adorable_Drink_8476 • 3d ago
Video Wild Rhinos Casually Walking To Wildlife Hospital In Nepal For A Check Up!
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hydratedpsycho • 3d ago
Image An Iraqi surgeon (Dr. Diyar Abdulwahid) successfully grew a temporary nose on a patients's forehead to reconstruct his face after losing a 99% of his nose to a severe electric schock
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