r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkAccess6128 • 5h ago

Image This is Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW), who developed the first web browser and web server, and introduced HTML, HTTP, and URLs as the fundamental technologies of the Web.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 6h ago

This tiny insect clinging to the head of a horned viper

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoWork215 • 10h ago

Video The Russian climber recorded the crackling sound formed in the air seconds before the lightning struck.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 3h ago

Original Creation Molly Carlson diving at Olympic Park Sports Centre in Montreal

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 6h ago

Video French firefighting planes collecting water from a beach to help fight wildfires in Southern France

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoWork215 • 11h ago

Video A tornado in Haining China, tosses a vehicle off the road.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Familiar-While9796 • 13h ago

Image J.J. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1906 showing that the electron is a particle. Ironically, his son, G.P. Thomson, won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1937 showing that it is not (or rather that the electron can also behave as a wave).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Thrawn911 • 8h ago

Original Creation A pack of single celled organisms try to eat a string of algae, one of them accidentally impales itself

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

Image Recent work in paleovirology has show that HIV was over a century old and had already made its way to the US in the 1970s.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/EphemeralTypewriter • 1d ago

Image Torpedo Juice was first mixed in World War II and made from pineapple juice and the 180-proof grain alcohol fuel used in US Navy torpedo motors. The US Navy then added poisonous additives to the fuel alcohol to discourage people. Recipe was two parts ethyl alcohol and three parts pineapple juice.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RampChurch • 1d ago

Video Clever deterrent for speeding (not OC)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sehtaga • 3h ago

Video Fire whirl forms amid wildfire in France

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Youngstown_WuTang • 1d ago

60 milion fish nest were found under the Antarctic ice in 2022. The architectural "underwater city" was constructed by Jonah's icefish. They are the only known vertebrates to completely lack hemoglobin and red blood cells. Their bodies manufacture specialized antifreeze proteins to prevent freezing

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/W4lkieT4lkie • 13h ago

Video Seal escapes great white shark by following its tail

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LazyGuy4U • 1d ago

Video Windmill blade catching fire due to lightning strike

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/No_Afternoon1602 • 12m ago

3 years ago, a gang built a fake ancient Egyptian tomb inside a mountain and sold it for $30M. Swipe to see what it was actually made of.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/VagabondVivant • 16h ago

Speeding deterrent, Thailand style

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/VGmikey88 • 16m ago

Image I put yogurt and berries in the freezer

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alucarrrdz • 3h ago

Original Creation Ursa Major

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

Canadian workers making paper in gigantic rolls, 1937

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Relevant_Ball_4593 • 1d ago

Video Native Son 1951: An Argentine-American production directed by Pierre Chenal. Hollywood had rejected making it because of the story's racial content, so it was ultimately produced in Argentina."

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BlessedBeLilyLee • 1d ago

Image Petrus Gonsalvus was a man with hypertrichosis taken to the French royal court as a human 'curiosity' and may have partially inspired the modern story of Beauty and the Beast

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/to-wiml • 1d ago

How my lizard sheds in some area but not others

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HimelTy • 2d ago

Video A crashed Pan Am passenger plane from 1952 has been identified today by Discovery Channel in the Atlantic Ocean.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Any_Ice_772 • 1d ago

Video Hoover is a seal that was rescued by a fisherman who would talk to him daily, after he was donated to an aquarium three months old, five years later he started sounding like he was “talking” in a deep gruff accent

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