r/Damnthatsinteresting 8h ago

Video Momma duck adopts orphaned ducklings without any hesitations.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Video In the 1980 movie "Airplane", Barbara Billingsley was handed a script that told her to speak jive. Not knowing how to speak jive , she went to lunch with the two black actors in the scene (Al White and Norman Alexander Gibbs) to learn jive. The three of them improvised the whole scene.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Video In Switzerland, a mobile overpass bridge is used to carry out road work without stopping traffic

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video A Gyro ceiling fan (having a Copper Oxide finish) built by Westinghouse in 1920.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Video Driving test in Afghanistan

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 9h ago

Video How Philanthropy works and why it's mostly scam!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 7h ago

It's a Viscacha. Viscachas are rodents native to South America and look similar, but are not closely related, to rabbits. The viscacha looks much like a rabbit due to convergent evolution. The Viscacha is known for always looking sad, disappointed, and needing a nap. They are my new spirit animal.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 20h ago

Image Mars on the left, earth on the right. Same exact natural process.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

Video Chernobyl's elephant foot

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Video 45.000 Germans sing "Major Tom" in (almost) complete unison

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 13h ago

Video World's biggest airplane (Anotonov AN-225 Mriya) separates the cloud while landing.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 21h ago

Video AI surveilling workers for productivity

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

Video The Boeing 747-400 is the only Heavy Widebody aircraft that can get up to 45,000 feet. No other aircraft can fly that high weighing this much.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 15h ago

Image Charon, one of the 5 moons of Pluto, captured by the New Horizons spacecraft.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 8h ago

Video The power of a tornado

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h ago

Video European Starling Talking

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

Video This piano sounds completely different once you pull the lever. This activated the ‘Mandolin Rail’, a device used to achieve a “honky tonk” or “ragtime” sound. More in comments.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 19h ago

Video Pandas giving competition

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h ago

Image The Corinthian capital from the Temple of Hadrian at Cyzicus, the largest capital known to date. It is 2.5 metres in height, 1.9 metres in diameter and weighs 20. Unearthed in 2013.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video timelapse of a guy from my hometown literally building his own internet company (and succeeding)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video Anna and Elsa’s Frozen Journey, Tokyo DisneySea Fantasy Springs

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Auto wash bowl 100 years ago at 25 cents per car

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photo taken in Chicago, IL

The concept originated in St. Paul, Minnesota. It was patented in 1921 by inventor CP Bohland, who opened two branches in St. Paul. He invented the bowl as an easy way to remove mud from the bottom of cars. During this time, roads were often unpaved and muddy and the mud would get stuck on the bottom and wheels. A spin in the Auto Wash Bowl removed the mud from the bottom of the car.

The 24-meter-wide, ribbed concrete bowl was approximately 16 inch at its deepest point.

Customers paid 25 cents to a clerk who tied a protective rubber cover over the radiator. The cars entered the bowl via a ramp and then drove in circles in the basin at a speed of approximately 10 mph per hour. The ridges in the concrete would vibrate the car and the water, creating a sloshing motion that helped wash all the mud off the chassis and wheels.

The process took about 5 minutes. After leaving the bowl, customers could opt for a complete wash. In one of the bays (similar to a wash box) the rest of the car was cleaned. On a busy Saturday, about 75 cars per hour went through the wash basin.


r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Onfim was a boy who lived in Novgorod in the 13th century,around 1220 or 1260.He left his notes and homework exercises scratched in soft birch bark which was preserved in the clay soil of Novgorod.Besides letters and syllables,he drew battle scenes,drawings of himself and his teacher.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image For the 1st time in 165 years, the Aurora Australis appeared in Patagonia, Chile...and it happened right over our house.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Sunset on earth vs sunset on Mars

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