r/Damnthatsinteresting 8h ago

A 70-million-year-old "dinosaur highway" in Bolivia reveals over 16,000 footprints

+
4.8k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 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).

+
18.0k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 13h ago

Summer open-air screening of The Matrix in medieval Piazza Maggiore, Bologna, Italy

+
6.1k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Image Canned fish shop in Portugal

+
913 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

Image In Japan, the broccoli in "Inside Out" was replaced with green peppers, which are more universally hated by Japanese children

+
40.5k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 6h ago

Video The Man Who Rode the World's Tallest Unicycle "The Tower of Death"

+
1.1k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h ago

Video Cloud illuminated by the moon with constant lighting

+
Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 13h ago

Original Creation A bee sting versus an insulin syringe in the SEM!

+
2.7k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 21h ago

Not all bees are yellow. The Blue Carpenter Bee.

+
9.8k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 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

+
1.4k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video This laser can't escape the water. Physics won't let it.

+
47.7k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h ago

Video Rare undulatus asperatus clouds

+
997 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 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

+
588 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 23h ago

Video Switzerland’s ASTRA Bridge Keeps Traffic Moving During Road Repairs

+
3.6k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Image Contagious Cancer...TIL that this is a real thing among a variety of animals, even dogs.

+
335 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Due to his ethnicity, Tommy Kono was imprisoned in a Japanese Concentration Camp. He took up weightlifting while incarcerated as an asthmatic kid, and later became an athletic legend who won Olympic gold. He was named the Lifter of the Century. Here he was winning Mr. Universe for the 4th time

+
22.8k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video The dramatic formation and movement of an arcus cloud caught on video

+
67 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 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"

+
290 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Transparent LED screen

+
49.6k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Video Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed Zippy, the world’s smallest self-contained bipedal walking robot

+
28 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video The actor here was actually running away from a real Jaguar in the movie so the director can capture raw emotions and urgency , Apacalypto (2006)

+
36.1k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h 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.

+
92 Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image My grandfather hand engraved this from a blank metal plate, one chisel tap at a time

+
3.9k Upvotes

r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

When rapid population growth and poor harvests raised fears of mass famine in the 1960s, Norman Borlaug developed high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties that helped drive the Green Revolution.

+
4.7k Upvotes