r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Apprehensive_Cry545 • Feb 09 '25
Image Dancing plague of 1518 where between 50-400 people took to dancing from July to September and no one knows why
14.5k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WhattheDuck9 • Oct 31 '24
Image A skull of a man with Proteus syndrome, a rare condition characterized by overgrowth of bones, skin, muscles, fatty tissues, and blood and lymphatic vessels.
72.6k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/QuartzXOX • Dec 04 '24
Image Tokyo in 1960, before there were any skyscrapers
106.7k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GambitsAce • Jan 09 '25
Image Homemade levee saves Arkansas home from flooding in 2011
44.6k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/coorgi_2012 • Nov 24 '24
Image Oarfish keep washing ashore in California. Folklore suggests that could be a bad omen
62.2k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tyrion2024 • Feb 25 '25
Image In 2010, a young Chinese asylum seeker was discovered on a flight to Vancouver after he was able to board it disguised as an elderly white man by wearing a remarkably effective silicone mask called The Elder which was made by a Hollywood-based company named SPFXMasks. He was released 3 months later
51.4k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Browndog888 • Nov 04 '24
Image The amount of steel in a wind turbine footing.
63.1k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cdistefa • Oct 07 '24
Image A list of proposed amendments that didn’t pass (luckily)
42.5k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Due-Explanation8155 • Nov 13 '24
Image This is what a hole in the skin looks like after a needle punctures it, as observed under a scanning electron microscope.
61.8k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Trchickenugg_ohe • Jan 27 '25
Image The liberation of Auschwitz Concentration camp happened 80 years ago today
43.5k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fearless_Equale • Nov 01 '24
Image For the first time in recorded history (130 years), there’s no snow on Mt. Fuji in November
79.2k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Some-Entertainment83 • Dec 06 '24
Image Benito Mussolini’s headquarters “Palazzo Braschi” located in Rome 1934
35.4k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheOddityCollector • Oct 30 '24
Image Scenes of piled-up vehicles in Valencia, Spain today after yesterday’s devastating flooding.
77.2k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Scared-Astronaut-718 • Dec 10 '24
Image Google’s Willow Quantum Chip: With 105 qubits and real-time error correction, Willow solved a task in 5 minutes that would take classical supercomputers billions of years, marking a breakthrough in scalable quantum computing.
37.1k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nucifera-noten • Oct 20 '24
Image Rare sighting of a schema monk outside Mount Athos
76.5k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Correct_Presence_936 • Nov 20 '24
Image Breaking: Potentially the Largest Cyclone Ever to Hit the Pacific Northwest, Images Today From Space
37.7k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Equivalent_Cow_7033 • Feb 03 '25
Image There's a metal band from Saudi Arabia called Al-Namrood who have maintained anonymity since 2008, as their identification could lead to the death penalty.
54.3k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/UnknownXIIV • Dec 15 '24
Image He dives rivers and sells golf balls for money, even makes more than me.
43.9k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CrockPotHead92 • Jan 08 '25
Image Los Angeles, 1/8 @ 7:30am
54.9k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Same_Investigator_46 • Sep 24 '24
Image Third Man Syndrome is a bizarre unseen presence reported by hundreds of mountain climbers and explorers during survival situations that talks to the victim, gives practical advice and encouragement.
91.5k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DIO-2350 • Dec 21 '24
Image Meet Irena Sendler – The Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children During WWII, Irena Sendler smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, hiding them in suitcases, toolboxes, and ambulances. She kept their identities in jars buried under a tree, hoping to reunite them with their families after the war.
44.8k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 22d ago
Image Now, Jupiter's Great Red Spot is SMALLER THAN THE EARTH!
21.8k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Admirable-Leather325 • Nov 26 '24
Image India: Meth seized from Myanmarese boat costs more than aircraft carrier Vikrant, built at a cost of $2.49bn
42.2k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CuriousWanderer567 • Oct 24 '24
Image A house cat suffering from Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy - a rare condition that causes muscles to grow excessively large
42.1k
Upvotes
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Personal-Till8935 • Oct 12 '24
Image Wolf lived with a tree branch trapped between his teeth for years
87.8k
Upvotes