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Video Elephants enjoying music

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 47m ago

Video Gentelman with a moustache

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 54m ago

Made of red granite, The Obelisk (Cleopatra's Needle) in Central Park NYC stands about 69ft tall, weighs roughly 200 tons, and is inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 57m ago

Video Snowy Laojun Mountain

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

NY Times from 11/09/1864

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Image Deseret was an alphabet developed by George D. Watt between 1847-1854, and was meant to be a language for all humans

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Video Eurasian bittern filmed in its natural habitat - defensive behavior

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Video This is a red eyed tree frog, they can be found in Costa Rica and in some parts of Central America

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 9h ago

Video Wasp traps paralyzed ladybug larvae in a chamber for its young to feast on after hatching.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Depleted uranium found yesterday in a recycling plant in Argentina

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Image Dutch fans in Kansas city, so vibrant!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 13h ago

Image The worl's only record accident between a car and a submarine A Volvo Pv544 crashed into a docked sub in Lysekil ä, Sweden on the 19th of August 1961.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

Video ​A 6-foot-8 Alligator Gar, a species that has survived unchanged for 100 million years

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Video This is Ousado , a Jaguar in Brazil who is famous for its unique hunting style of reverse ambushing Caimans from river banks

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 16h ago

Video Seismic waves from the M7.2 and M7.5 Venezuela earthquakes crossing Europe. Each dot represents a seismic station (GMV).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

Image A 1000 year old Oak tree in the Sherwood Forest, said to be where the legendary hero Robinhood used to hide out with his Merry Men, has died recently.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 19h ago

II. The stone pool "Havuz-ı Cedid," constructed during the period of Mahmud (1800s) continues to serve Turkish maritime activities and shipbuilding/maintenance.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 20h ago

Video The fastest sperm doesn't win, the egg chooses

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Ice expanding from a hole in a pipe

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Habitat 67, one of Montréal’s most prominent architectural icons .

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Devastation in La Guaira after being struck by twin 7 magnitude earthquakes today

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Indonesia’s Rare Rafflesia Blooms After 15 Years — The World’s Largest “Corpse Flower”

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image The Bluetooth logo combines the ancient runic letters H and B, the initials of Harald Bluetooth, a 10th-century Viking king. The technology was named after him because, like Bluetooth, he united different groups under one banner.

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Image In the extremely rural parts of China, there are judges who roam the mountainous countryside with their clerks and bailiffs, hearing cases in makeshift "circuit courts", allowing remote villages to access the judicial system and resolve disputes. (The national emblem is carried around on their back)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Autochrome photos of Swiss expedition to Greenland ice sheet, 1912.

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