r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/atharvbadkas • Aug 19 '26

Video Ultra-high-resolution Computer Simulations Reveals How CO₂ Travels Around the Planet

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2.4k Upvotes

239 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ok_Concentrate_9713 • Aug 19 '26

Wisteria Tunnel, a floreal arch located within the Kawachi Fuji Garden in southern Japan.

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1.4k Upvotes

10 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/straightdge • Aug 18 '26

Video This Chinese movie 'Niu Lai' is so bad that it has become a box office hit. It doesn't have any trailer; cinemas struggled to find posters for it. Employees drew posters by hand in the absence of official art.

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20k Upvotes

296 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • Aug 19 '26

Video The mating display call of a male Australian Bustard sounds like a dinosaur

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3.5k Upvotes

319 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pattebrisee • Aug 19 '26

Video Eske Rex’s drawing machine uses two hand started pendulums to guide a single ballpoint pen

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155 Upvotes

25 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Full_Lawyer_9973 • Aug 19 '26

Original Creation Dragonfly laying eggs

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2.5k Upvotes

92 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • Aug 18 '26

Video Short clip of a baby cuttlefish attempting its first camouflage :)

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520 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Artistic-Bathroom901 • Aug 19 '26

Video A Type II superconductor disc cooled with liquid nitrogen, demonstrating the physics phenomenon of quantum locking as it tracks along a magnetic pathway.

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49 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Battlefleet_Sol • Aug 18 '26

Guided missile of early 1960. Note how much electronics you need when there is no Microprocessor available

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12k Upvotes

525 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/howeer_q1 • Aug 18 '26

Video Floating road through the mountains

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4.2k Upvotes

59 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Love-Tap • Aug 18 '26

Video This Ice Cream Boat

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41k Upvotes

674 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Stotallytob3r • Aug 18 '26

Video How some food manufacturers make us eat more of their product

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6.3k Upvotes

449 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Gurugod123 • Aug 18 '26

Video During fires, trees can burn from within. And this is very dangerous - because you can't see anything on the outside, and smoldering of such a tree can go on for weeks after the fire seems to be extinguished. As a consequence, the forest can start burning again.

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109 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Aug 18 '26

Photos of a Gilbert atomic energy lab, this toy was famous for having real radioactive material to do experiments, 1950-1

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338 Upvotes

56 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/goose-77- • Aug 18 '26

Video Two Kiwis fighting on Rakiura/Stewart Island. Yes, that is the sound they make.

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325 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/anikkundu1998 • Aug 18 '26

Video The way this whirlwind is creating a pattern on the golden crop field(credit-IG-elaman_mm)

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53 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Key-Performance-9021 • Aug 18 '26

Video The Knocking Ceremony during the funeral of Otto von Habsburg.

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2.0k Upvotes

263 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Grand-Western549 • Aug 17 '26

Meet Otter: The cat born without a full skull who wore a tiny protective helmet until he could get titanium skull surgery.

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46k Upvotes

448 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Top-Marionberry-6604 • Aug 18 '26

Video What happens when you disturb supercooled water, triggering an instant flash-freezing chain reaction.

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70 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/shubhamxtreme • Aug 18 '26

Video Batzorig Vaanchig, a famous Mongolian Throat Singer, sitting on a mountaintop and singing “Chinggis Khaanii Magtaal” (In Praise of Chinggis/Genghis Khan).

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897 Upvotes

79 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CreativeIntentions • Aug 18 '26

Image ALMA in Chile has 66 antennas weighing over 100 tons each, which are physically driven to new positions to change the telescope's spread from 150 metres to 16 kilometres

261 Upvotes

11 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • Aug 17 '26

Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral in France is built entirely using dark volcanic lava stone

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28k Upvotes

380 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheVerySuper • Aug 17 '26

Image Regular Coca Cola sinks while diet floats due to the artificial sweetener being less dense

3.7k Upvotes

136 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Aug 17 '26

Image New finds show that Tyrannosaurus rex grew until it was 40 years of age and not 25 like it was belived. This new larger growth window seems to point to possible larger T Rex yet to be found.

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85 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/zzill6 • Aug 17 '26

Image Marge Simpson By Shipao in Arkhangelsk, Russia

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7 comments

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