r/interestingasfuck • • 1d ago

Tribe meeting the tech

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r/interestingasfuck • • 6h ago

caught this sweet optical illusion of a wind turbine in fog!!

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r/interestingasfuck • • 1h ago

A 15hp steam engine powers this workshop. Check out the overhead shafts and belts carrying power to the individual machines.

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r/interestingasfuck • • 1d ago

This Brazilian streamer got a Playstation 2 working in a car's rearview mirror

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r/interestingasfuck • • 1d ago

You can stand exactly on the place where WW1 began

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r/interestingasfuck • • 1d ago

Firefox brings back old memes for an advertisement

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r/interestingasfuck • • 18h ago

Baseball stadium dome

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r/interestingasfuck • • 14m ago

Roll out solar arrays will be installed during next week's spacewalk. You can see two of them folded and ready to be installed and you can also see how they look when they are installed

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r/interestingasfuck • • 11h ago

Lemurs sharing a meal

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r/interestingasfuck • • 18m ago

How the lights changed over 30 years

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r/interestingasfuck • • 18h ago

Climbers caught in terrifying moments as Indonesia’s Mount Dukono suddenly erupts.

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r/interestingasfuck • • 20h ago

Good old phone days

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r/interestingasfuck • • 3h ago

The 14th century, the period most responsible for the perception of the middle ages as "a dark period" was marked by 6 decades of extreme weather in parts of Europe. Extreme weather would bring famine, followed by disease outbreaks. The black death was only the peak of that long cycle

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r/interestingasfuck • • 1d ago

Angelica Jardine lifts the 732 lb (332 kg) Dinnie Stones, becoming only the second woman ever to do so side-by-side

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r/interestingasfuck • • 22h ago

About 20 people from the community of Point May, N.L., came together to rescue two beached pilot whales on Oct. 25 using buckets, hoses and even an excavator during the four-hour operation.

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r/interestingasfuck • • 1d ago

Prospector 5 sinking off the coast of Mayumba, Gabon, after experiencing a "punch-through" event.

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r/interestingasfuck • • 9h ago

Medieval Florence was accustomed to mob violence, but once in a while things would get a little too graphic, even for contemporary writers

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r/interestingasfuck • • 1d ago

Indigenous people using trained monkeys to catch wild pigs

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r/interestingasfuck • • 21h ago

Buster Keaton riding the front of a moving locomotive, throwing a wooden beam to clear the tracks just seconds before derailment (The General, 1926)

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r/interestingasfuck • • 19h ago

What does starting one of the world's biggest trucks sound like?

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r/interestingasfuck • • 1d ago

"Project Habakkuk," was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of ice, for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic. They even built a prototype in Canada and it took the prototype three years to melt after the project was decommissioned.

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r/interestingasfuck • • 1d ago

In jacanas, the male bird incubates the eggs while the polyandrous female mates with multiple males

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r/interestingasfuck • • 11h ago

The linguistic ancestors of modern day Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian speakers originate from Eastern Siberia - closer to Alaska than to areas where those languages are spoken now. The language spread wider than genes, only small portions of speakers have DNA of those ancient Siberians.

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r/interestingasfuck • • 16h ago

Freak bike with the whole “Frozen” movie script engraved into the gear head.

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r/interestingasfuck • • 1d ago

German is a fun language

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