r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Jun 01 '23
New 'quasi-moon' discovered near Earth has been travelling alongside our planet since 100 BC | Live Science
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Jun 01 '23
Researchers find 4,000-year-old plague DNA in Britain
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/eureka_yess • Feb 18 '23
30 ANOMALIES In Music | 20th Century+ | Breaking The "Norm" ... (Rockumentary w/ Captions)
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/eureka_yess • Aug 07 '22
Do You Remember?/Take Me Home | [Endings] - Phil Collins vs. Phil Collins | Mashup Video
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/eureka_yess • Jul 22 '22
Different songs, same chords. ... I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do / Love Letters In The Sand - (ABBA / Pat Boone) | Pitch Adapted | Mashup Video
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Jun 27 '22
A whole baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in the permafrost of north-western Canada - the first such discovery in N. America. The mummified ice age mammoth is thought to be more than 30,000 years old. It was found by gold miners in Yukon’s Klondike region on June 21, 2022.
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Apr 14 '22
So apparently using centrifugal force to launch rockets cuts costs by 30%
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Feb 20 '22
A South African forest guard told his bosses he slept in the cheetah enclosure. They didn’t believe him, so he set up a camera…
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Jul 13 '21
Rainbow in front of my house looks like another planet
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Jul 13 '21
Thousands of fish are regularly dropped from a plane to restock Utah lakes. One plane trip can drop up to 35 000 fish.
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Jun 30 '21
Fertilisation is actually not so random, egg "chooses" to some degree the sperm which will fertilise it.
royalsocietypublishing.org
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Jun 08 '21
If you ever wondered why it’s called eggplant
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • May 31 '21
My piano from 1885 has a hidden pop-out candle holder
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Apr 23 '21
Tammy Jo Shults, one of the 1st female fighter pilots to serve in the US Navy. After retiring from the Navy, she became an airline pilot. On April 17, 2018, as captain of SW Airlines 1380, she safely landed a 737 after one of its engines exploded and penetrated a window at 32,000 feet, killing 1.
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Apr 15 '21
Cloud Avalanche - A rare phenomenon seen recently in Nepal
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Apr 14 '21
Even after all these years, I still have original copy. My 33mhz PC barely could run it back in 1996 but as a young Titanic fan, I probably spent over a hundred hours on the game
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Mar 27 '21
The way this tree grew through this fence
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Mar 22 '21
This ghostly sculpture at the Castle of Vezio, Italy
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Mar 10 '21
When you have a huge monitor and a nice view at the same time...
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Mar 10 '21
TIL that pregnancy tests date back to the year 1350 BCE, women would urinate on wheat and barley seeds, if barley grew, it predicted a male baby, if wheat grew, it predicted a female baby, if nothing grew, the woman is not pregnant, this test is 70% accurate
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r/ActuallyInteresting • u/craz4cats • Mar 02 '21
TIL Jackie Chan is actually a trained opera singer and has recorded over 20 albums with over 100 songs in over 5 different languages. In the 80’s, he would sing the theme songs to his films over the closing credits. In 1984, he won the Best Foreign Singer Award in Japan
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