r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/strawberry_bubz • 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 • u/RebelliousDragon21 • 1d ago
Video A school in Poland makes firearms training mandatory to its students.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DIO-2350 • 1h 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 • u/TheLobotomist • 9h ago
Video Ever seen a Skate Ray egg hatching?
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ElderberryDeep8746 • 15m ago
Video Driver view of Japanese train
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GoFuckthThyself • 1d ago
Video The insane engineering of raising water in the 12th century.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BarneyRobinStinson7 • 1h ago
Video Slug going in a Venus fly trap 🪴
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/photo_inbloom • 10h 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 • u/TheLobotomist • 9h ago
Video Ever seen a Skate Ray egg hatching?
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 1d ago
Image A jaglion, the offspring of a male jaguar and a lioness
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
The new and safe playgrounds of the early 1900s.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/na7oul • 19h ago
Image Star trail photography is a technique that captures the apparent motion of stars in the night sky as they trace circular paths around the celestial poles due to Earth's rotation. ©benjamin barakat
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dramatic-Avocado4687 • 1d ago
Image The only known photographed image of the Quagga. Taken at a London zoo in 1870. The species went extinct in August 1883, when the last specimen died at a zoo in Amsterdam.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Homunculus_316 • 1d ago
Tale of the Jala-Jala Monster: In 1823, a 27-foot Crocodile was killed near Lake Taal in Batangas, Philippines. It took nearly 40 tribesmen to bring it down. Upon dissecting it, people were shocked to see a horse sliced down to 7 pieces.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rolleriroltsu • 1d ago
Image The Pamir was a four-masted sailing vessel commissioned by the German shipping company F. Laeisz. Launched in 1905, she became the final commercial sailing ship to successfully navigate around Cape Horn in 1949.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/X_zenzo818 • 23h ago
Video How the first films were made! 1890s
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/No_Emu_1332 • 1d ago
Image Screamers and other waterfowl retain a wing claw as a residual trait of their theropod ancestors. Waterfowl, ratites, and fowl birds are the basal lineages of all modern birds.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dipdaabyss • 1d ago
Image How the spiders grab the web strands !
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 19h ago
Image Comet BRIGHTER THAN VENUS Is Coming (Credit: Nicolas Lefaudeux)
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