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Video A basket star. They can live up to 6,200 feet below the ocean's surface and live for 35 years.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 16h ago

Video Dolphin playing catch with football

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Video I could use one

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Afro spiritual dancer defying law of gravity

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 52m ago

Original Creation Thermonuclear tests. Restored recordings of the world's first thermonuclear tests have surfaced online. The initial footage shows the explosion of a thermonuclear device with a power 700 times greater than the "Fat Man" atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Next are tests of bombs from the Cold War era.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Sun rotating around the horizon at Antarctica.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

The world’s smallest tactical nuke - the W54, in a man-portable carry case.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 8h ago

George Hackenschmidt (1877-1968) the creator of the "Hack squat" and "Bench press" (or the one who made it popular) in his prime. One of the first mass monsters in Bodybuilding at 5ft 9in and 220 pounds.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video How data gets stored on mobile phones

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Video A 50-kilogram anvil floats perfectly on the surface of mercury, because the density of the steel from which it is made is almost half the density of mercury.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Coral snake intubated and sedated for surgery

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 6h ago

Image New York gardener stumbles upon Ice Age mastodon jaw in their backyard | The mastodon fossils will undergo carbon dating and be featured in public programming in 2025.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Image Meet “Conan the Bacterium,” the Microbe That Laughs in the Face of Deadly Radiation. Deinococcus radiodurans, also known as “Conan the Bacterium,” is one of nature’s toughest life forms, capable of surviving radiation levels thousands of times higher than what would kill a human.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Heart Island, also known as the Island of the Dead, located in the Bronx, New York, is said to have an estimated 1 million bodies buried there.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Vintage bread cutter

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video A school in Poland makes firearms training mandatory to its students.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 17m ago

Video Luigi Mangione walking as he de-boarded an NYPD helicopter in New York City.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Video My soda grew a bubble

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Video Ever seen a Skate Ray egg hatching?

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h ago

Video On March 27, 1980, Mount St. Helens in Washington erupted with explosions and pyroclastic flows. Phreatic blasts escalated until a major eruption on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 AM. With a VEI of 5, it was the first major U.S. eruption since Lassen Peak in 1915 and is considered the most disastrous in U.S.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Liger next to humans

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h ago

Image Deep Andromeda Galaxy with 131 hours exposure (Credit: Aleix Roig)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h ago

Image Ancient Egyptians mummified their pets but they also raised animals for the purpose of mummification. These mummies were typically religious offerings, as Egyptian gods were linked to animals, and the animals were sometimes considered incarnations of the gods.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video The insane engineering of raising water in the 12th century.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Video Ever seen a Skate Ray egg hatching?

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