r/Damnthatsinteresting Feb 12 '25

Image The Macuahuitl, a weapon used by Mesoamerican civilisations including the Aztecs. It features obsidian blades embedded onto the club sides, which are capable of having an edge sharper than high-quality steel razor blades. According to Bernal Diaz del Castillo, he witnessed it decapitating a horse.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Jan 08 '25

Image Tonight's Los Angeles, USA (Credit: Autism Capital)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Feb 09 '25

Image Nikola Tesla never married, but claimed to have fallen in love with a white pigeon. After its death, he told friends that he felt his life's work was over. "I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life."

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 29d ago

Image All trains going between London and Paris were cancelled today after a 300kg bomb from WW2 was found on the tracks near Paris' Gare du Nord station

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Dec 22 '24

Image German children playing with worthless money at the height of hyperinflation. By November 1923, one US dollar was worth 4,210,500,000,000 marks

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Dec 28 '24

Image Angus Barbieri was a Scottish man who fasted for over a year with no ill effects.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Dec 16 '24

Image Katharina Detzel,a mental patient who built her own man out of the straw in her bed,1910.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Feb 08 '25

Image World's most dangerous plant - in Australia

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Mar 04 '25

Image 87 years ago on March 3rd, Saudi Arabian oil was first discovered

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3d ago

Image Fate and Feet: Three Chinese Girls in 1900s – A Barefooted Servant, a Bound-Foot Lady, and a Christian with Unbound Feet

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Dec 21 '24

Image The clearest image ever taken of Phobos, Moon of Mars.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Dec 07 '24

Image Jury awards $310 million to parents of teen killed in fall from Orlando amusement park ride in march 2022

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Mar 01 '25

Image This aerial image of the massive protest in Greece yesterday

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Oct 08 '24

Image Hurricane Milton

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Dec 16 '24

Image A million people gathered to protest in central Seoul and cleaned up after themselves before they left

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Dec 19 '24

Image New Delhi, India as of today morning. No, this is not fog. This is smoke.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Feb 27 '25

Image The brain of a man converted into glass by Vesuvius ash cloud

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Dec 08 '24

Image The Archbishop of Paris re-opening the door to Notre Dame Cathedral

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Feb 18 '25

Image Venus Callipyge meaning “Venus of the beautiful buttocks”. 1st or 2nd century BC. National Archaeological Museum of Naples

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 25d ago

Image A beaver dam in British Columbia showing its ability to hold back sediment pollution during heavy rainfall

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Jan 24 '25

Image This is Uranus ( Captured using JWST)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Dec 24 '24

Image This 8kgs food tray is called Bahubali Thali in India. Anyone who can finish it in 40 minutes can win $11 000.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Oct 07 '24

Image At 905mb and with 180mph winds, Milton has just become the 8th strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. It is still strengthening and headed for Florida

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 28d ago

Image Man Knocks Down Basement Wall, Finds 2,000-Year-Old Underground City

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Jan 21 '25

Image A woman standing next to a Redwood tree, 1950’s

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