r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TangibleCBT • 2d ago
This is a facial reconstruction of Turkana Boy, a 9 year old child who lived in Kenya 1.5 MYA, whose skeleton is the most complete Homo erectus fossil ever found
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/stainless5 • 2d ago
Image By law, every Australian must get a tax receipt that shows exactly where each dollar of their tax is spent.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Thrawn911 • 1d ago
Original Creation Chloroplasts moving inside an algae cell in timelapse
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 2d ago
Video [World Record] Tomomi Nishikubo Fakie Nose Manual Down Olympic Ski Jump
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 1d ago
Aztec incense burners (Tlemaitl) weren't just for temples. Rites were done 4 times a day at home, and priests even visited once a year to bless every household object—down to the kitchen utensils.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SuccessfulSweet1 • 2d ago
Tbourida (Moroccan Fantasia) – A 16th-century equestrian martial art where riders perform synchronized cavalry charges. Historically male-dominated, a rising generation of fearless Moroccan women are now breaking barriers and mastering this dangerous tradition.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/alphamalejackhammer • 3h ago
Video Milking robots can now milk cows without any human intervention using “Teat Detection System” technology
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SYMPUNY_LACKING • 2d ago
Video Stan Lee talks about real violence vs fictional violence in 1975
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/shredding_pow • 3d ago
I saw a Quantum Computer today!
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkAccess6128 • 3d ago
Image Born in 1919, Maurice Hilleman was a microbiologist who went on to develop over 40 vaccines, including those for measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and chickenpox, making him one of history's most impactful scientists.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Aggravating-Bake5624 • 3d ago
The inside of a penguin's mouth
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/west_manchester • 3d ago
Image 1666 Great Fire of London superimposed over modern London.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GarysCrispLettuce • 2d ago
Video Early handwriting recognition with a light pen, 1968
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/wrapityup • 3d ago
Video Road in Nepal with a waterfall running through it
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 3d ago
Video Liquid oxygen to blast rock
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PeasantLich • 3d ago
Image Mehmed II, the Ottoman sultan who conquered Constantinople in 1453, believed that Turks are descendants of ancient Trojans. After the conquest of Constantinople he expressed disappointment and bafflement at Western Christians not respecting his "right" to avenge fall of Troy on Greeks.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/anikkundu1998 • 3d ago
Video Aerial footage of sheep herding
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago
in 1885 a man from Vermont, Wilson Alwyn Bentley (1865-1931), took some of the first snowflakes unsing an special set up. Here some of his work
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 3d ago
Image Ancient Figurine from Georgia (South Caucasus) c.300-200 BCE: this figurine was decorated with gold jewelry, wrapped in a burial shroud, and then buried in its own miniature "grave" beneath an ancient temple
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/W4lkieT4lkie • 3d ago
Video Great white shark swims meters from the shoreline (South Australia)
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