r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 8h ago

Image After more than a century of recovery efforts, a recent survey of the Seychelles giant tortoise population shows that it has jumped from 1,000 (in 1890s) to 180,000 today.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 14h ago

Photographer Maria Passer captured the ice-covered empty buildings of Vorkuta, where winter temperatures drop as low as minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit. As residents leave the city, snow and ice completely encrust former living rooms, offices, and bedrooms

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kalia_pehelwan • 1h ago

Murud-Janjira: A sea fort surrounded by the Arabian Sea, built up by the Siddi rulers in the 16th century. Despite repeated attempts to capture it, the fort remained unconquered and even had freshwater reservoirs and massive cannons on its rocky island.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 16h ago

Video you would expect that the same substance should smell the same to different people.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 16h ago

Video Setting up and firing a 500W high-power architectural laser system

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 10h ago

This is Pelican Spider, It has a long neck and enormous mandibles that resemble a swan's beak. It doesn't hunt insects but specializes in hunting other spiders by stabbing them with its extended mandibles from a safe distance, preventing them from touching it

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/IM2X_ • 14h ago

This 66-million-year-old dinosaur mummy still shows the wrinkles of its skin, preserved in a layer of clay less than a millimeter thick.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/aryan_jandyal • 20m ago

Video Paper Pepper is a Korean papercraft artist known for creative paper artworks, including a playful reimagining of Van Gogh with his ear “restored,” using only paper, skill and meticulous craftsmanship.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 19h ago

Image Leafy seadragon, creature distinguished by its ability to camouflage itself among algae leaves, its appearance is astonishing

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 9h ago

This is Brazilian treehopper, The structure suggests to predators that the insect is infected with a deadly parasitic fungus such as Cordyceps that has grown and penetrated its body, so animals instinctively avoid it to avoid eating contaminated or poisonous prey. Its look like alien head

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 21h ago

Image Smallest monkey in the world, pygmy marmoset

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 17h ago

This is Tany Frogmouth, An Australian bird assumes a completely frozen posture with its eyes closed when it senses danger, and obviously from its name it is like having frog mouth

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nikulmmadhu • 1d ago

Video India surpassed the US to become the world’s 2nd-largest market for annual solar capacity additions

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 22h ago

Rare roll cloud in Parrish, Florida

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/waterbombardment • 16h ago

Image A cavern in the Quang Tri, Vietnam

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 1d ago

Image Photo of a robber fly (L) next to a normal mosquito for size comparison (R).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 14h ago

White Ghost Plant, this plant contains no green chlorophyll and does not rely on photosynthesis, but rather feeds parasitically on fungi attached to the roots of large trees in complete darkness

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/IM2X_ • 1d ago

Image Two photographers aimed their camera at a galaxy 2.5 million light-years away, went to sleep, and woke up to this.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Icehxart • 1d ago

Video Epic camera transition during F1 Singapore broadcast

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Getatbay • 1d ago

Video EU has created a system that bypasses payment processing services like visa or mastercard

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 9h ago

Original Creation Dawid Godziek Cashroll Windshield Wiper

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ghost_Carrot • 1d ago

595meter Intercontinental ballistic pumkin.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alarming-Studio-720 • 17h ago

Video This is the Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat (“Naked Mountain”), which holds the Guinness World Record as the world’s tallest mountain face, rising 4,600 metres (15,090 ft) above the valley floor. It only has 12 successful ascents and an insane 70–85 degree degree steepness

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 19h ago

Devil's Fingers Mushroom (Clathrus archeri), a unique, saprotrophic fungus famous for its eerie, tentacle-like appearance and foul smell, starting as an egg, end up like red Fingers.

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