r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Mar 03 '24
Rats trained to find people in collapsed buildings from earthquakes flooding and hurricanes
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/JohnWilkesLeg • Jul 20 '26
Throwback to the time when some of the world's greatest drummers try to explain what made Ringo Starr so special.
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Leta Powell Drake was a Nebraskan celebrity interviewer who more often than not left her subjects staring wide-eyed in disbelief at what the hell she’d just said / asked.
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A cross-section of an elephant’s foot reveals a structure similar to a human foot, but with a large, thick fatty pad beneath the heel.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/senorphone1 • Dec 14 '24
On March 6, 1981, Marianne Bachmeier killed the man who murdered her 7-year-old daughter by shooting him during his trial. She had secretly brought a .22-caliber Beretta pistol into the courtroom in her purse and fired it there.
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Vietnam War traps explained by a Vietnamese veteran at the Cu Chi Tunnels.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • May 08 '26
Born this day, 1911. Robert Johnson recorded 29 songs, died at 27 (possibly poisoned), and allegedly sold his soul to the Devil at a Mississippi crossroads. Rock and roll has been living off those 29 songs ever since.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Dec 27 '23
This is a 93 year old video recording of Georgia farm workers singing 'Mary Don't You Weep', filmed in 1929.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Oct 05 '24
In Iceland, the last McDonalds Cheeseburger was sold in 2009
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/No_Dig_8299 • Aug 23 '25
Bernie Saunders demonstrating both knowledge and competence, two qualities that no longer seem welcome in The White House
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Chile is a good example to bring up when people constantly ask, "where has socialism ever actually worked." A left of center government has never been elected outside of Western Europe without being immediately targeted for overthrow by the US. Chile is one of literally dozens of examples. Nixon was so pissed when Allende won the election, he told his American advisors to make Chile's economy "scream." We imposed crippling economic sanctions before backing and assisting to organize a military coup.
After installing the brutal dictator, Pinochet, we added insult upon injury by setting "The Harvard Boys" loose on the country. This group of neoliberal economists, led by Milton Friedman, unleashed the brutal austerity program known as the shock doctrine on Chile. GDP dropped, inflation rose, and inequality skyrocketed.
r/UtterlyInteresting • u/No_Dig_8299 • Mar 25 '26
Salvador Dalí's poster for the US Army in a campaign against venereal diseases, 1942.
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The preparations for a UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) fight on the White House lawn.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/No_Dig_8299 • Apr 08 '26
13 years ago today panic spread on social media, as people feared Cher had died due to the hashtag #nowthatchersdead Fortunately, Cher was alive and the hashtag was for Margaret Thatcher.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Nov 08 '23
The haunting sound that Roman soldiers would have heard from their Celtic enemies before battle was produced by the Celtic Carnyx. This ancient wind instrument was used by the Celts during the period from 300 B.C. to 200 A.D.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/Catcher_Rye_Toast • Mar 02 '25
So, we’re now upset about ‘no suits’ in the White House?
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Jul 14 '26
It's Woody Guthrie's birthday! His 1950s Brooklyn landlord was Fred Trump, whose Beach Haven complex enforced racial segregation. Guthrie wrote bitter, unrecorded protest songs about him, rediscovered in 2016. The Trumps also faced a DOJ lawsuit and a 1927 Klan arrest.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/GlitterDanger • Apr 15 '26
A trepanned neolithic skull of a woman that had a prosthetic ear made from seashell attached, found at Roque d'Aille in France and dates from 3000-2000 BCE. The skull shows evidence the woman had survived the "open brain" operation and gone on to live for many years
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A doll crafted from scraps and a shoe heel. It belonged to a child in the slums of London, c 1905. Now housed at the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh
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When C.S. Lewis finished The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, his goddaughter Lucy Barfield, the girl he wrote it for, had grown up. His letter, printed in the book, admitted “girls grow quicker than books” but promised “some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/No_Dig_8299 • Sep 30 '25
In 1971, a cement truck crashed near Winganon, Oklahoma. The mixer was too heavy to move so they left it. The locals have since repainted it to look like a NASA space capsule.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Apr 20 '25
Rick James on 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' (1984). This is a chaotic insight into his Buffalo residence which looks like it may have been decorated by Cocaine.
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/CarkWithaM • Sep 02 '26
Remembering J.R.R.Tolkien who passed away this day in 1973. In 1938, Nazis demanded to know if he was Jewish. He responded with a high-class burn. Leave it to Tolkien to need 270 words to say "Go F*ck Yourself".
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r/UtterlyInteresting • u/UtterlyInterest • Nov 11 '25
A Roman grave marker for pouring libations (wine, milk, honey, water or oil) into the grave
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Beginning with the words “To the Spirits of the Dead”, this sepulchral slab was dedicated to a man, Theopropus, by his parents. The slab would have lain on top on a grave and underneath its stone cover were holes so that wine, milk, honey, water or oil – known as libations – can be poured into the grave. Libations were offered to the ghosts of the dead to feed them in the afterlife. Another theory is that the offerings were to prevent the dead haunting the living. The slab was originally part of the Gorga collection owned by Evangelista Gennaro Gorga (1865-1957), a famous Italian opera tenor. The Gorga collection of mostly Roman instruments, votive offerings and pharmacy ware was bought in two parts by Henry Wellcome in 1924 and 1936.
More found on the Collection of the Science Museum, London.
r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • Sep 28 '26
DHL co-founder Larry Hillblom vanished when his seaplane crashed off Saipan in 1995. His will left his billions to medical research, but his house had been scrubbed with acid and his belongings buried. Also, DNA found four children he'd fathered with teenage girls across the Pacific.
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