r/interesting • • Oct 18 '25

HISTORY In 1978, 15-year-old Mary Vincent was hitchhiking when she accepted a ride from a stranger. He assaulted her, cut off both her arms with an axe, and threw her down a 30 foot cliff. Refusing to die, Mary packed her wounds with mud, climbed back up, walked three miles naked for help, and survived.

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r/interesting • • Aug 04 '25

HISTORY Ancient Collapse

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r/interesting • • Jul 18 '26

HISTORY That is something I would brag about

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r/interesting • • Feb 09 '26

HISTORY A man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 at the time of British Raj, India

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The Great Famine of 1876–1878 was a famine in India under British Crown rule. It began in 1876 after an intense drought resulted in crop failure in the Deccan Plateau. It affected south and Southwestern India - the British-administered presidencies of Madras and Bombay, and the princely states of Mysore and Hyderabad, for a period of two years. In 1877, famine came to affect regions northward, including parts of the Central Provinces and the North-Western Provinces, and a small area in Punjab. The famine ultimately affected an area of 670,000 square kilometres (257,000 sq mi) and caused distress to a population totalling 58,500,000. The excess mortality in the famine has been estimated in a range whose low end is 5.6 million human fatalities, high end 9.6 million fatalities, and a careful modern demographic estimate 8.2 million fatalities.

r/interesting • • Apr 30 '25

HISTORY Opening a 1930s cigarette box from France

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r/interesting • • Feb 01 '26

HISTORY Man who has never seen a women

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r/interesting • • Jan 11 '25

HISTORY Mount Rushmore if you zoomed out

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r/interesting • • Sep 07 '26

HISTORY No Computers. Just Gears, Dials… and a Spinning Earth

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r/interesting • • Jul 13 '25

HISTORY German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945

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The Jewish population will never recover.

Be a courageous human being, and do what is right. Please.

r/interesting • • Nov 22 '25

HISTORY When Robert Downey Jr. visited Wall Street in 1992—and was stunned by what he saw.

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r/interesting • • Oct 17 '25

HISTORY When Alexander the Great’s body showed no signs of decay six days after his death, ancient Greeks believed he was a god. But historians believe he was likely paralyzed by a rare brain disorder, alive but unable to move or speak, suffering for days before being mistakenly buried alive.

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r/interesting • • Apr 29 '24

HISTORY dude did a face reveal when face reveal were even a thing

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r/interesting • • Jun 15 '25

HISTORY A colorized photo of Irma Grese, infamous nazi warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen and volunteer member of the SS. Executed at 22 years of age, she was the youngest woman to die judicially under British law in the 20th century. Holocaust survivors nicknamed her the "hyena of Auschwitz."

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Here's a link to here wiki page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_Grese

r/interesting • • Feb 02 '25

HISTORY Footage of the elephant's foot.

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r/interesting • • Aug 21 '26

HISTORY 4 Children for Sale is a photograph that depicts a mother, Lucille Chalifoux, hiding her head as her four children sit unwittingly beneath a sign that offers all of them for sale.

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r/interesting • • Jan 31 '25

HISTORY Painting over core values at the FBI

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r/interesting • • Feb 19 '26

HISTORY From a Six-Figure Coding Job to DoorDash, How AI Replaced Him.

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After two decades as a high-earning software engineer, Shawn K. found his career upended when AI replaced his role in 2024. Despite his extensive experience and a previous salary of $150,000, the transition has been incredibly difficult and sudden.

Following over 800 unsuccessful job applications, Shawn’s life has changed drastically. He now lives in a trailer and delivers food via DoorDash to survive. His journey reflects the harsh reality many tech professionals face in an evolving, automated labor market.

This story serves as a sobering reminder that even highly skilled roles aren't immune to rapid technological shifts. It highlights the urgent need for a deeper conversation regarding job security and the human cost of the ongoing artificial intelligence revolution.

r/interesting • • Mar 03 '26

HISTORY One of the reasons Target failed in Canada was because products wouldn't properly fit on shelves due to their dimensions being entered into the system in inches instead of centimeters. This, among other issues, resulted in Target Canada lasting less than 2 years and racking up a $2.1 billion loss.

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r/interesting • • 25d ago

HISTORY USSR and the USA thought it was gay to dock a space craft

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r/interesting • • Jul 30 '26

HISTORY The richest man ever tried for murder in America was Texas oil heir Cullen Davis — accused in 1976 of executing his 12-year-old stepdaughter. Survivors identified him; a jury acquitted him. Then the FBI taped him replying "Good" to "I got Judge Eidson dead for you." Another jury let him walk.

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Andrea, 12, was shot execution-style in the basement. The date of his soon-to-be divorced wife was also found dead. After his 1977 acquittal, Davis threw a celebration party - and invited the judge, the jury, and the press. For the 1978 sting, the FBI had the divorce judge climb into the trunk of his own car in a ketchup-stained undershirt burned with cigarette holes, photographed him "dead," and had the informant show Davis the photo in a hamburger-joint parking lot. Davis was arrested with $25,000 in cash; the hit list allegedly ran to over a dozen names. First solicitation trial hung; the retrial acquitted him. He was never convicted of anything, went bankrupt in the '80s oil bust, and became a born-again Christian. He's often cited as an inspiration for the fictional character J.R. Ewing.

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-cullen-davis-case-mansion-murders-did-a-texas-millionaire-get-away-with-brutal-double-killing/

r/interesting • • May 18 '26

HISTORY Brock Lesnar as a baby

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r/interesting • • Jul 23 '26

HISTORY This is what Las Vegas looked like in 1895, before the city became known for its skyline and casinos.

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r/interesting • • Jul 03 '26

HISTORY This is Terry Fox. He lost his leg to cancer at 18. Instead of giving up, in 1980 he ran 3,339 miles across Canada on a prosthetic leg to raise money for cancer research.

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r/interesting • • Jan 12 '25

HISTORY How amazing

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r/interesting • • Feb 02 '25

HISTORY Clothes from a girl who died 3,400 years ago have been reconstructed

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