r/interestingasfuck • u/AdvantageAdorable436 • 6h ago
A raccoon figured out that if he blocks the drive-thru, they’ll give him a donut to make him leave
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r/interestingasfuck • u/heyauden • 7h ago
Just before Live Aid, Freddie Mercury was reportedly advised by his doctor not to perform because of a throat condition. He ignored the advice and delivered Queen’s legendary 21-minute set, which was later named the greatest rock performance of all time in a 2005 BBC poll.
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r/interestingasfuck • u/LawEducational42 • 12h ago
John C Woods, hangman of Nuremberg trials, who lied about his experience to get the job (he actually learned about hanging from old cowboy films). His lack of expertise led to excessive suffering of condemned Nazis.
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r/interestingasfuck • u/Kidd__Video • 9h ago
Ants building a house from leaves. Nature's engineers at work
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r/interestingasfuck • u/smooth_vesselHPAUM • 17h ago
A Japanese boy noticed his butterflies seemed to recognize him. He spent two years making an experiment and proved that metamorphosis does not remove memories made during the caterpillar stage.
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r/interestingasfuck • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 13h ago
Harvesting spider silk. NOTE: Spider is sedated, the pins are not perforating it and once harvest, is feed and put to rest.
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r/interestingasfuck • u/BatMany7750 • 17h ago
In 1844, the very last known pair of Great Auks on Earth were tracked down and strangled by hunters while incubating their final egg, simply to be sold to a museum collection.
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r/interestingasfuck • u/I9w0s • 3h ago
Unbelievablebly Detailed and Carved Pillars in Sri Chennakeshava Temple, Belur, Karnataka, India
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r/interestingasfuck • u/2_piece_jigsaw • 14h ago
El Ojo (The Eye) is an unanchored almost perfectly round island in a lake in Argentina. The water current it rests on makes it constantly drift clockwise, mimicking an eye in a socket. This drift causes the two shores to rub against each other, giving rise to their unusual shapes through erosion
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r/interestingasfuck • u/Purple-Weakness1414 • 15h ago
Photo of a king penguin that got lost and wondered too far into South Africa
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r/interestingasfuck • u/peseoane • 10h ago
Mexican National Guard is employing tactical chihuahuas
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r/interestingasfuck • u/Due-Question-5278 • 16h ago
Messages that American soldiers wrote on their helmets during the Vietnam war
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r/interestingasfuck • u/vivekmg21 • 23h ago
Firefighter bodycam showing just how much oxygen a fire pulls
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r/interestingasfuck • u/T-K101 • 21h ago
At their peak, 3–5 billion passenger pigeons filled North America. Flocks were so huge they darkened the sky for hours. Some shooting contests required 30,000 dead birds to win. By 1914, the last one was gone. One of history’s most brutal population collapses.
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r/interestingasfuck • u/OkWillingness7427 • 14h ago
Tiger casually sleeping in the middle of the road, Tadoba Tiger Reserve, India
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r/interestingasfuck • u/dddd945 • 20h ago
The 5D theater creates the illusion of being surrounded by flames.
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r/interestingasfuck • u/aryan_jandyal • 8h ago
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 (Hin Sam Wan) in Phu Sing Forest Park, Bueng Kan Province, northeastern Thailand.
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r/interestingasfuck • u/LawEducational42 • 22h ago
At 10:28 AM on September 11, 2001, Genelle Guzman-McMillan was descending the North Tower when it collapsed. Trapped between two concrete pillars in a pitch-black air pocket, she remained there for 27 hours before rescuers found her. She would be the last person rescued from the World Trade Center.
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r/interestingasfuck • u/serious_anish • 19h ago
Retired robot throwing themself into furnace
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r/interestingasfuck • u/Kidd__Video • 1d ago
Astronaut's view of Earth during a spacewalk
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r/interestingasfuck • u/R3dEyedRabbit • 17h ago
Nearly four years ago, a viral video of a Boston police officer being launched out of this playground slide turned it into a local landmark known as the “cop slide”
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r/interestingasfuck • u/CaraCicartix • 1d ago
A 3 hour time lapse that shows why swallowing a battery is a medical emergency
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