r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mvincen95 • 9h ago

Image Dr. Gay Hitler, son of George Washington Hitler, worked as a dentist in Circleville, Ohio, for over 40 years. Born in 1882, he lived long enough to see his surname become the most infamous in world history, dying in 1948.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GeorgeRobertVitkos • 17h ago

Video A local street art collective in Philly built a pink companion to follow and 'flirt' with corporate Uber Eats delivery units.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/finza_prey • 7h ago

Image Dennis Fitch an off-duty pilot was on United Airlines 232, he studied JAL 123 that crashed 4 years prior and tried to replicate it in different simulators. After lossing all hydraulics from an engine failure, he helped the crew make a controlled crash landing, saving 184 of the 296 people onboard

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Chance-Ad197 • 15h ago

Original Creation A massive war between two ant colonies has been waging for decades on a miles long trench warfare style frontline, with an estimated 30 million ants dying in combat per year

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/9061yellowriver • 2h ago

Video The world's only video of an F5 tornado destroying a home outside of the US (Elie, Manitoba 2007)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/yuuyo123 • 9h ago

Video In Japan, you will find various clocks that do cool things & play music occasionally. This is one of them, located in Matsudo

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 22h ago

51 decapitated Viking skeletons found in a 1,000-year-old execution pit in Weymouth, UK NSFW

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 7h ago

Before the heavy steam or oil machinery, the "horse-drawn combine harvesters" were the way to work huge crops. Photos from the 1890s-1910s.

403 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/--TheGOAT • 18h ago

Video Floodwater sweeps cars through the streets of Istanbul after the city's heaviest rainfall since 1985

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PethuPandian • 1d ago

Original Creation An uninhabited 100 year old Chettinad house in India

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/IM2X_ • 1d ago

Image A British gardener grew a 26 kg (57 lb) beetroot, breaking the world record in 2026

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/west_manchester • 1d ago

Image Odd road signs in Britain

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/heart_ablaze23 • 6m ago

Video World's first Quadruple backflip on a MTB from last year's #Showusurtricks finalist 🔥

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/vapalera • 1d ago

Video New Anthropic study found out small LLMs are capable of self replication by splitting themselves into small shards across hacked IoT devices

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Novapierce_ • 1d ago

Video Cat that sounds like a anime girl

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Image Man at Richardson Grove State Park looks at a cut section of a 1250 years old tree (aprox). Humboldt County, California 1930s.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 1d ago

Video Janja Garnbret climbing Bügeleisen Sit V15 (8C) FFA in Austria

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/StaticOperator18 • 1d ago

A Roman skeleton was found with bite marks that suggest it was attacked by a lion nearly 2,000 years ago.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Proud-State-6311 • 1d ago

Video One of the pandals(temporary structure/pavilion) in Kolkata, India during Durga Puja(festival for the worship of goddess Durga)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Duxm4ster • 1d ago

Must see in Croatia - Amphitheatre Solin (Roman Ruins)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Novapierce_ • 1d ago

Video Maths functions as music

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ImHalfCentaur1 • 1d ago

Ammonitritor scientiacivium, a new ichthyosauriform from the Triassic of Norway that had unique jaws for breaking down hard bodied animals like ammonites.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/west_manchester • 2d ago

Image Street art in Milan

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 2d ago

The Red Handfish: this fish has no swim bladder, so it uses hand-shaped fins to crawl along the seafloor instead, and it's one of the world's most endangered fishes, with fewer than 100 individuals remaining

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mode_Appropriate • 2d ago

Video Starfish Prime, 1.4 megaton hydrogen bomb detonated in space.

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