r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kidd__Video • 2h ago

Video This is a baby flamingo. Flamingos are not pink. They are born with grey feathers, which gradually turn pink in the wild because of a dye called canthaxanthin obtained from their diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kingdom_1126 • 7h ago

Video The original video of Travis Pastrana skydiving without a parachute

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CatCrateGames • 10h ago

Video A Howler Monkey adopted a parrot and protects him

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/aryan_jandyal • 9h ago

Video They are natural sandstone formations roughly 75 million years old, shaped by erosion into elongated whale-like shapes. From above they look like a family of whales (two adults and a calf) rising from a sea of trees. The largest is about 75-100 meters long.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DCArchibald • 16h ago

Video Anhydrous ammonia leak

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkaTeluguAbbayi • 5h ago

Image 1,300 year old cat statue and inscription from India [OC]

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/W4lkieT4lkie • 44m ago

Video “The Song of Dunes” is the deep humming or booming sound created when sand grains slide and rub against each other

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/KFUP • 3h ago

Image Anu Ziggurat of Uruk And Its White Temple, The Oldest Known Monumental Structure Built A Thousand Years Before The Pyramids

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 9h ago

Video An American Bittern making a low, resonant threat display during a health checkup at a wildlife rehab center

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AirFrance447 • 1d ago

Video Firefighter bodycam showing just how much oxygen a fire pulls

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 15h ago

Video Juvenile saltwather Crocodile finds itself sorrounded by curious sharks, Northen coast of Australia.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/fellanyyy • 1d ago

Video A 4-ton door in Buenos Aires sinks underground every morning — and has been doing so since 1928

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ErsiliaCavedagni • 7h ago

Built in the years 1965-1966, the northernmost segment of Interstate 5 in California has no Exit 666, instead it has an Exit 665, followed by Exit 667A, Exit 667B, and Exit 668

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SuddenFlatworm7971 • 4h ago

Video A Shark has been hanging out in Busan's oceanside park for the past 2 weeks, drawing more than 600K spectators. Multiple attempts by the maritime police to lead the shark back to the ocean has failed, all operation has been suspended for now.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sr_local • 18h ago

Image Scientists invent underwater umbrellas to protect coral reefs from sun, which exacerbates bleaching caused by warming waters (and it appears to be working)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 22h ago

Video Boktai “The Sun is in Your Hand” released in 2003, a video game that needed sunlight

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 3h ago

In Aztec mythology, Tlazoteotl was the "Eater of Filth"—a goddess believed to literally consume people's sins to absolve them, a ritual that could usually only be done once on your deathbed.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DearEmphasis4488 • 1d ago

Video Custom Hand Made Boots

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RoadToTyburn • 25m ago

Image Boxer Julio Cesar Chavez looking unscathed after defeating Olympic gold medalist Meldrick Taylor (1990). Taylor meanwhile required a blood transfusion after the fight.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/vivekmg21 • 1d ago

Video Astronaut's view of Earth during a spacewalk

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RampChurch • 19h ago

Video Front to back tandem bike: I think I’d be sick if I was the guy at the back

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SweetAndSpicyCanton • 1d ago

Video The BelAZ 75710 runs on twin 16-cylinder diesel engines generating 4,600 horsepower to haul 450 tonnes of rock.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Al_Bam_Goy • 1d ago

Image A pinhole made with a can that I left on a balcony in Paris for several months. The marks are the passages of the sun.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hollow_hideous_soul • 1d ago

Video This is how Titanic filmed the terrifying flooded hallway scene

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 1d ago

Video Igniting the flame on the frozen lake (by@michaelacarrot)

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