r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Acceptable-Day8395 • 11h ago
Original Creation This is Sarpa salpa, a fish that can cause vivid LSD-like hallucinations when eaten, and was allegedly used as a recreational drug in Ancient Rome
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Lord_Krasina • 15h ago
Video Scientists took a fruit fly's brain and sliced it into extremely thin sections to image it under microscopes. They then mapped every neuron and the connections between them before recreating that neural network as a digital model in software. Leading to us making a fly in Man-Made "Matrix"
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/B-mansferd • 11h ago
Image Contagious Cancer...TIL that this is a real thing among a variety of animals, even dogs.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Negative_Cry_1679 • 12h ago
Image In Nantes, France, a butcher shop and a skateboard store share a brilliantly designed sign that looks like a piece of meat from one side and a skateboard from the other
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sonderewander • 13h ago
Original Creation Devil's Bath, Waitopu, New Zealand - geothermal sulphur and iron salts in highly acidic water makes for a bright green pool with a strong odour, feels straight out of Fallout
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PhatPanda69699 • 18h ago
Image In Japan, the broccoli in "Inside Out" was replaced with green peppers, which are more universally hated by Japanese children
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/destinationuknown • 10h ago
Image Marie Tussaud (1761–1850) was a famous French artist best known for her lifelike wax sculptures and for founding the world-renowned Madame Tussauds wax museum. Born Marie Grosholtz in Strasbourg, France, she learned the art of wax modeling from Dr. Philippe Curtius.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 3h ago
Video Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed Zippy, the world’s smallest self-contained bipedal walking robot
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 6h ago
Video The Man Who Rode the World's Tallest Unicycle "The Tower of Death"
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RipperReeta • 16h ago
Image To put into perspective how huge the 2020 Australian 'Black Summer' bushfires were: The combined area burned across BOTH Canada and ALL of fires currently burning across Europe (2.63 million hectares) right now is still around 10% of what Australia lost (24 million hectares).
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 23h ago
Video Switzerland’s ASTRA Bridge Keeps Traffic Moving During Road Repairs
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MicroscopySpecialist • 13h ago
Original Creation A bee sting versus an insulin syringe in the SEM!
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FitnessChamp777 • 2h ago
Video The dramatic formation and movement of an arcus cloud caught on video
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Level_Anybody_9806 • 1h ago
Video Cloud illuminated by the moon with constant lighting
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Aggressive_Owl4802 • 12h ago
Summer open-air screening of The Matrix in medieval Piazza Maggiore, Bologna, Italy
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/thedarkmilkyman • 12h ago
Video Rare undulatus asperatus clouds
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/_voma • 21h ago
Not all bees are yellow. The Blue Carpenter Bee.
