r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mendbinding • 12h 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/MilesLongthe3rd • 9h 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/OriginalSleeper • 14h 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/-chibcha- • 6h 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 • 4h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TaxEvaderFrom1961 • 8h 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/redbullgivesyouwings • 18h ago

Video Tomomi Nishikubo's Preparation vs. Result

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mirunee3d • 15h 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/LilKubli • 5h ago

Video Pilots catch MASSIVE lightening strike on camera ⚡️

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/King_Of_Spades_158 • 20h ago

A spider web built inside another spider web

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WeirdAddress3170 • 2h ago

Video How the lights changed over 30 years

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

One of the first dinosaur mummies was the now known as: Edmontosaurus annectens "mummy", discovered in 1908. A well preserved skeleton encased in skin impressions.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/floweiss34 • 10m ago

Video How far away is the Nearest Star? - by RichardB1983

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/junhxn • 57m ago

Original Creation Bioluminescence is a natural phenomenon where microscopic organisms like dinoflagellates create a glowing neon-blue light in the ocean when disturbed by movement, making the water look like it's shimmering with magical stardust.

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