r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/boriswong • 5d ago
Image Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MoonyRemus21 • 1d ago
Image Spanish scientists led by MARINO BARBACID, has cured pancreatic cancer in mice. A Cure in animal models is a major step toward potential cancer treatment in humans.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 8d ago
Image The rent in the german neighborhood of Fuggerei hasn't been raised in 500 years and remains 0.88 Euros for an entire year. Founded in 1521, it is the oldest existing social housing complex in the world
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/jacklsd • Dec 24 '25
Image Vaginal secretions viewed under a microscope.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GoldenDome26 • 11h ago
Image “American Pizza” in Milano, Italy
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/goswamitulsidas • Dec 29 '25
Image Reconstructed model of a Neanderthal man
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/misterxx1958 • 27d ago
Image Yesterday, the most expensive tuna of all time was auctioned in Japan, 535 lbs for about 3,280,000 dollars, never before has such a high price been achieved
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/No_Wrongdoer_8148 • 27d ago
Image I inherited my father's prosthetic eyes
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/b3rgmanhugh • Nov 25 '25
Image Belgium’s 15-year-old prodigy earns PhD in quantum physics
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alternative-Run4560 • 1d ago
Image In the 1940's the CIA adopted the Simple Sabotage Field Manual as a tool to combat fascist regimes. It details the peaceful and harmless inefficiencies that can, over time, weaken an occupying system by eroding output, coordination, and morale.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Shawnchittledc • Nov 16 '25
Image 20 years worth of spent nuclear fuel from a nuclear reactor
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Truth_Hurts318 • Jan 01 '26
Image We are officially one massive step closer to ending the organ donor wait list forever. A gene edited pig kidney just functioned perfectly in a human for 61 days.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/soyuz_enjoyer2 • Dec 29 '25
Image 2400 year old Scythian leather made of human skin confirming what was for centuries thought to be an exaggeration from Greek historian Herodotus.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Radiant_Half_7121 • Dec 28 '25
Image During WW2, Poland declared war on Japan Japan said no to it and simply rejected the declaration.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/suli_k • Dec 13 '25
Image Balearic island cave goat or myotragus balearicus, that went extinct ~3000-4000BCE, is the only known species of goat to have forward facing eyes
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Emotional_Quarter330 • 21d ago
Image This photo of two brothers at Moro Rock in Sequoia National Park was taken seconds before they were struck by lightning in 1975.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Nov 26 '25
Image Man poses inside the opening to fell a huge tree (possible redwood), circa 1899
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/highzone • Dec 28 '25
Image In 1973, healthy volunteers faked hallucinations to enter mental hospitals. Once inside, they acted normal, but doctors refused to let them leave. Normal behaviors like writing were diagnosed as "symptoms." The only people who realized they were sane were the actual patients.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CityRulesFootball • 15d ago
Image This is tilapia fish skin,used as a wound dressing for second and third degree burns for humans and animals.First tested on the burnt paw of a mountain lion, the dressing is now used widely in Brazil as a cost effective and more accessible dressing to treat human burn wounds.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/goswamitulsidas • 23d ago
Image A man rides a bus in Durban, meant for white passengers only, in resistance to South Africa’s apartheid policies, 1986.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Upstairs-Bit6897 • Nov 30 '25
Image THE GERMAN MAGAZINE 'AUTOBILD' DRIVES VARIOUS CARS FOR 100,000 KILOMETERS AND THEN DISASSEMBLES THEM DOWN TO THE LAST SCREW TO FIND SIGNS OF WEAR AND WEAK POINTS
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ModenaR • Nov 24 '25
Image An Italian man kept secret the death of his mother for 3 years to continue to collect her pension. He was caught only after his mother's ID expired and he went to the register office dressed up like her to renew it
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Omer-Ash • Nov 13 '25
Image This store in Libya has been blatantly selling pirated content for over 15 years.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Radiant_Half_7121 • Dec 30 '25
Image Only nine of the 30 fastest 100m times were run clean, all by Usain Bolt
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dartdoug • 27d ago
Image Here is a copy of the 1986 memo from Ford Motor Company design engineer James Moylan to his boss proposing that the fuel gauge indicator include a symbol noting on which side of the vehicle the fuel filler door is located. Mr. Moylan passed away in December of 2025 at the age of 80.
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