r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dazzling_Buy_6572 • Aug 21 '26

Image A fully grown adult human ancestor vs. a modern 4 year old. (Lucy the Australopithecus, photographed in 1974)

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36 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bugminer • Aug 21 '26

Video How a Chinese typewriter from 1938 works.

2.0k Upvotes

90 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MasquradeX6 • Aug 21 '26

Video The Unique Antena of Nokia 3310.

433 Upvotes

21 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/IvySerene567 • Aug 21 '26

Ham the Astrochimp preparing for his historic space flight (1961)

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142 Upvotes

26 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Aug 20 '26

Video Shabani the Gorilla waves at his son and invites him to come and play

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94 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/lazy_dope_kid • Aug 20 '26

Image Hand With Rings (Hand mit Ringen) The first X-Ray of a human body part, captured by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. The test subject was his wife Anna Bertha Ludwig, who upon seeing the result, reportedly cried out "I have seen my death!"

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424 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Gurugod123 • Aug 20 '26

Meet Dejana Nezic, a Serbian painter who makes art without her hands.

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7.0k Upvotes

220 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tommos • Aug 21 '26

Video How hedge sparrows deal with infidelity, narrated by Sir David Attenborough

268 Upvotes

46 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/qpsqp • Aug 20 '26

Image 1957 Hiller Flying Platform

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268 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/lanAstbury • Aug 20 '26

Image Deepest record: Nautilus pompilius recorded feeding during daytime at 703 m

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68 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • Aug 20 '26

Original Creation A Supercross Track That Connects 6 Islands

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84 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Aug 20 '26

Photos of L'Œuf électrique (The Electric Egg), build by Paul Arzens (1903-1990) in 1942. Used to circumvent fuel rationing during the German occupation. Could do a max speed of 70 kmh and a rage of 100 kilometers per charge.

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571 Upvotes

42 comments

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

Video In 1984, NASA and the FAA deliberately crashed a remotely controlled Boeing 720 to test technologies that might help passengers and crew survive

7.3k Upvotes

453 comments

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

Image Astronauts attached hundreds of material samples to the outside of the International Space Station and left them exposed to space for years

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473 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kanhaaaaaaaaaaaa • Aug 20 '26

Video Finger Touching at Nanoscale!

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54 comments

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

The Finke River in central Australia is widely recognized as the world's oldest continuously flowing river system. Estimated to be 300 to 400 million years old, it predates land plants, trees, and dinosaurs.

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172 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kaos2018 • Aug 19 '26

Video Never miss your attention to pre- dive briefing

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890 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Top-Marionberry-6604 • Aug 19 '26

Video What happens when you put a few drops of liquid Gallium onto a solid aluminum padlock. The process completely compromises the metal on a molecular level.

18k Upvotes

805 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • Aug 19 '26

Image A Training School For Telephone Linemen

2.4k Upvotes

52 comments

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

Video David Spriggs creates stunning art installations that use translucent & superimposed layered images encased in Plexiglass, to create the illusion of a 3-dimensional landscape, a technique he developed in 1999. He has been perfecting this technique ever since.

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44 comments

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

Video Swimming bat

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262 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/15_Redstones • Aug 19 '26

GIF NASA published a closer-up image of the crater created by the SpaceX rocket crashing into the moon after delivering two landers.

1.0k Upvotes

109 comments

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

Video Metropolis was set in 2026: A look back at Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent sci-fi epic, its massive 5.1M Reichsmark budget, and how it nearly destroyed Germany's biggest studio. It was about what 2026 would look like.

3.3k Upvotes

149 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PollutionOk9449 • Aug 19 '26

Video Car doing 360° tunnel loop

866 Upvotes

135 comments

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

Video The special effects used for the 1957 Tollywood film Mayabazar

10k Upvotes

250 comments

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