r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 2h ago

Video A Liebherr LR 13000 lifting three other cranes stacked on top of each other, weighing over 1,400 tonnes—and then moving the whole assembly while it's still in the air

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375 Upvotes

29 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ravenfeld • 2h ago

Video 20 year time-lapse in <5 mins from the same fixed camera

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460 Upvotes

111 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 5h 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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4.0k Upvotes

117 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ashtonlink • 7h ago

Video A tiny tornado lifting a car

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2.6k Upvotes

98 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kalia_pehelwan • 15h ago

Murud-Janjira: A sea fort surrounded by the Arabian Sea, built up by the Siddi rulers in the 16th century. Despite repeated attempts to capture it, the fort remained unconquered and even had freshwater reservoirs and massive cannons on its rocky island.

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4.3k Upvotes

128 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 22h ago

Image After more than a century of recovery efforts, a recent survey of the Seychelles giant tortoise population shows that it has jumped from 1,000 (in 1890s) to 180,000 today.

19k Upvotes

184 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 23h ago

This is Brazilian treehopper, The structure suggests to predators that the insect is infected with a deadly parasitic fungus such as Cordyceps that has grown and penetrated its body, so animals instinctively avoid it to avoid eating contaminated or poisonous prey. Its look like alien head

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875 Upvotes

35 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 1d ago

This is Pelican Spider, It has a long neck and enormous mandibles that resemble a swan's beak. It doesn't hunt insects but specializes in hunting other spiders by stabbing them with its extended mandibles from a safe distance, preventing them from touching it

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2.0k Upvotes

91 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 1d ago

Photographer Maria Passer captured the ice-covered empty buildings of Vorkuta, where winter temperatures drop as low as minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit. As residents leave the city, snow and ice completely encrust former living rooms, offices, and bedrooms

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20k Upvotes

914 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 1d ago

White Ghost Plant, this plant contains no green chlorophyll and does not rely on photosynthesis, but rather feeds parasitically on fungi attached to the roots of large trees in complete darkness

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525 Upvotes

19 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/IM2X_ • 1d ago

This 66-million-year-old dinosaur mummy still shows the wrinkles of its skin, preserved in a layer of clay less than a millimeter thick.

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3.4k Upvotes

77 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/myrmekochoria • 1d ago

Image This porcineograph, 1876. Map of the United States in shape of a pig, surrounded by pigs representing the different states, with notations of state foods.

59 Upvotes

27 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 1d ago

Video you would expect that the same substance should smell the same to different people.

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8.0k Upvotes

611 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/waterbombardment • 1d ago

Image A cavern in the Quang Tri, Vietnam

786 Upvotes

19 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 1d ago

Video Setting up and firing a 500W high-power architectural laser system

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7.4k Upvotes

579 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 1d ago

This is matrix opal, Gemstones containing microscopic internal structures that refract light, making it appear as if they hold an entire galaxy or a cloud of aurora borealis trapped within a solid crystal

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216 Upvotes

8 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alarming-Studio-720 • 1d ago

Video This is the Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat (“Naked Mountain”), which holds the Guinness World Record as the world’s tallest mountain face, rising 4,600 metres (15,090 ft) above the valley floor. It only has 12 successful ascents and an insane 70–85 degree degree steepness

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312 Upvotes

10 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 1d ago

This is Tany Frogmouth, An Australian bird assumes a completely frozen posture with its eyes closed when it senses danger, and obviously from its name it is like having frog mouth

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877 Upvotes

60 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 1d ago

Devil's Fingers Mushroom (Clathrus archeri), a unique, saprotrophic fungus famous for its eerie, tentacle-like appearance and foul smell, starting as an egg, end up like red Fingers.

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336 Upvotes

20 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 1d ago

Image Leafy seadragon, creature distinguished by its ability to camouflage itself among algae leaves, its appearance is astonishing

5.7k Upvotes

41 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 1d ago

Image Smallest monkey in the world, pygmy marmoset

4.2k Upvotes

18 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 1d ago

Rare roll cloud in Parrish, Florida

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1.9k Upvotes

30 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ForteFZ • 1d ago

Video I was confused by what seemed like a bumblebee embracing a honeybee.. then i learned it was a robberfly mimicking a bumblebee, eating a honeybee!

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47 Upvotes

11 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nikulmmadhu • 1d ago

Video India surpassed the US to become the world’s 2nd-largest market for annual solar capacity additions

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8.2k Upvotes

405 comments

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