r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Odd-House3197 • 59m ago

Image During the Victorian era, doctors believed that women suffering from female hysteria needed to release built up nervous energy. A common treatment involved pelvic massage performed by physicians to induce a “hysterical paroxysm,” which is now understood to be an orgasm.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/One_Explanation_908 • 1h ago

Video Maradona warm up. Napoli Campionato

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/stuckintrraffic • 1h ago

Video Dancing robot in China

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FullmetalPlatypus • 2h ago

Video They lied...

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2h ago

in the 1500s Götz Von Berlichingen (aka Iron Hand) had one of the most advanced prosthetic hands of his time. able to be graduate in strenght from holding a quill, playing cards, to grip his own sword. Thanks to the hand he keep fighting until the advance age of 64.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/No-Community- • 2h ago

Image Patrick Stewart signed the 6 years contract of Star Trek because he thought the show would fail

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SnooKiwis8540 • 2h ago

Video What tattoo needles look like up close

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Thispersonthisperson • 4h ago

Video Acrylic painting on an orb that looks like 360° photo, by Daisuke Samejima

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/guyoffthegrid • 4h ago

Basket starfish have branching arms that they use to capture plankton and other small organisms from ocean currents

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 4h ago

Image Saturn's Maelstrom

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fine_Sea5807 • 5h ago

Image Super Sentai, the Japanese progenitor of Power Rangers, aired on this day in 1975 and has been running uninterrupted for exactly 50 years with 49 different seasons

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Key-Fox3923 • 7h ago

Image This woman gave birth to 69 children Valentina Vassilyev (1707 – 1782)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/jillisonflook • 8h ago

Image Electric eel's zap can transfer genes to nearby animals, study finds

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WeirdOldWorld • 13h ago

Original Creation A photogrammetric 3D model of the megalithic site of Sacsayhuaman in Peru, created by combining thousands of aerial and ground pictures.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/rapatakaz • 15h ago

Video China is completing the construction of the tallest bridge in the world, which runs through the Grand Huajiang Canyon. The 2,890-meter-long steel suspension bridge rises 625 meters above sea level

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ansyhrrian • 15h ago

Video What popping a balloon full of mercury looks like in slow motion

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 16h ago

Original Creation Red Bull Flugtag Japan

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/amarchivepub • 20h ago

Video #OnThisDay in 1968- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/chrisdh79 • 1d ago

Image Toddler Discovers 3,800-Year-Old Egyptian Amulet While Hiking With Her Family | The 3-year-old picked up an ancient Canaanite scarab that dates back to the Middle Bronze Age

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tomis23 • 1d ago

Mud volcanoes in Romania

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tomis23 • 1d ago

This life-sized F1 car made entirely of Lego blocks

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AncientJeweler2595 • 1d ago

An oriented Sikhote-Alin meteorite

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Image Roentgen steed (Horse), created to help children pose for the X-Ray and make the experience less awkward, photo 1957

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Image Victorian era prostetic arms: Left is a special arm designed for a pianist (notice the position of the fingers) and right an more complex and ornate metal hand. Source in comment.

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