r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MilesLongthe3rd • 8h ago

Video Footage recorded by a passenger shows the aftermath of today’s collision between two high-speed trains, an Iryo and a Renfe AVE, in Toledo, Spain. 64 people have died in this accident.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mendbinding • 11h ago

Image This image highlights the surgical scars on Captain Smit Machchhar’s head, sustained during his heroic efforts to control Flydubai flight FZ1073, as he arrives to be honored by the Crown Prince of Dubai.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ABDOOUU99 • 2h ago

Image 4,500 years old, yet it feels as though it is looking at you.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/-chibcha- • 5h ago

This isn't Petra, but it was also built by the Nabataeans. Hegra, in Saudi Arabia, was their second-largest city and a major trading hub. It has over 100 tombs carved into sandstone cliffs, carved about 2,000 years ago.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Thrawn911 • 3h ago

Original Creation A small single celled microbe bites a Litonotus cygnus in the ass

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OriginalSleeper • 13h ago

Image In August 1929, 14-year-old William Ruppert from Colgate, Maryland, broke the national pole-sitting endurance record by sitting atop an 18-foot flagpole in his family's yard for 23 days.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TaxEvaderFrom1961 • 7h ago

Image If Kimi Antonelli finishes P9 or above at the Mexico City Grand Prix (assuming George Russell does not win), he will become the youngest World Champion in Formula One history. Potentially winning at just 20 years and 68 days, beating Sebastian Vettel's 16-year old record by 3 years and 67 days.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LilKubli • 4h ago

Video Pilots catch MASSIVE lightening strike on camera ⚡️

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WeirdAddress3170 • 1h ago

Video How the lights changed over 30 years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AlwaysReady1 • 23h ago

Image A 1950 photo of the sky taken at Palomar observatory shows nine star-like points that weren't there half an hour earlier

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mirunee3d • 13h ago

A Japanese man found 22 million yen ($146,000) on his way home from the hospital on the day he was told he had just two months to live. He spent most of it and was later arrested. In court, he said it felt like “a gift from God.”

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 17h ago

Video Tomomi Nishikubo's Preparation vs. Result

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Bored_Millenial- • 1d ago

Submerged Hallingen Islands after storm

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Spectre_Omega • 1d ago

An Ottoman supply train sitting exactly where it was ambushed and derailed 112 years ago by Lawrence of Arabia's forces during WWI

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Image Photo of Haitian engineer Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche with wife Juliette Lafargue and family. He was the only person of african descendant to perish on the Titanic (14/04/1912), his wife and children survived. Photo circa 1911 in France.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/King_Of_Spades_158 • 19h ago

A spider web built inside another spider web

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/-chibcha- • 1d ago

This is a male proboscis monkey. Its massive nose acts as a sound amplifier to attract mates and intimidate rivals. These monkeys have webbed feet and are exceptional swimmers, helping them navigate Borneo’s coastal mangroves, rivers, and rainforests.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ClavicusLittleGift4U • 23h ago

Image Rediscovered in 1903, The linear Elamite was one of the oldest syllabus systems along Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs (4200 years). It remained untranslatable until 2022 when a team led by French archeologist and epigraph François Desset finally deciphered it after 18 years of work.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mors_Acerba • 1d ago

Image In 1260 AD, Siena defeated a much larger florentine force at the batte of Montaperti, largely thanks to a couple of florentines who agreed to betray their side by killing their own flag bearers. The 18 meter(60 feet) tall flagpoles were taken as trophies and remain at Siena's cathedral to this day

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/EchoesOfYouth • 1d ago

Video A Bugatti Chiron accelerating to 417kph (260mph) on the German autobahn

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ZoaddictCorals • 1d ago

Original Creation An anemone “waking up” for the day

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Better_Hair_9673 • 2d ago

Video Grass-carrying wasp (Isodontia mexicana) storing paralysed grasshoppers in its nest chamber for its young to feed on after they hatch.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mendbinding • 1d ago

Image The shadow of second highest mountain in the world K2, projected into China across hundreds of miles. Photo by Chris B. Warner

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ABDOOUU99 • 2d ago

Image A skeleton belonging to an extinct sea turtle called Archelon ischyros—one of the largest turtles to have ever lived—was first discovered as a fossil in 1895 in the U.S. state of South Dakota.

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