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/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/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/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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534 Upvotes

31 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 9h ago

Original Creation Dawid Godziek Cashroll Windshield Wiper

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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/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/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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291 Upvotes

14 comments

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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2.7k Upvotes

68 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/myrmekochoria • 15h ago

Image This porcineograph, 1876. Map of the United States in shape of a pig, surrounded by pigs representing the different states, with notations of state foods.

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27 comments

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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534 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/waterbombardment • 16h ago

Image A cavern in the Quang Tri, Vietnam

521 Upvotes

14 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 16h ago

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

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538 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 16h ago

This is matrix opal, Gemstones containing microscopic internal structures that refract light, making it appear as if they hold an entire galaxy or a cloud of aurora borealis trapped within a solid crystal

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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 • 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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631 Upvotes

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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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15 comments

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 • 21h ago

Image Smallest monkey in the world, pygmy marmoset

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17 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/opmgyhx • 22h ago

Rare roll cloud in Parrish, Florida

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26 comments

r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ForteFZ • 1d ago

Video I was confused by what seemed like a bumblebee embracing a honeybee.. then i learned it was a robberfly mimicking a bumblebee, eating a honeybee!

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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/Icehxart • 1d ago

Video Epic camera transition during F1 Singapore broadcast

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8.4k Upvotes

143 comments

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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