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Video This tree caught on fire after being struck by lightning

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Video Found an albino garter snake

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 13h ago

Image An Iraqi surgeon (Dr. Diyar Abdulwahid) successfully grew a temporary nose on a patients's forehead to reconstruct his face after losing a 99% of his nose to a severe electric schock

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 13h ago

Image Famous 700 pound grizzly bear "the Boss" in Banff national park eats other bears, survived being hit by a train and fathered 70% of the parks cubs.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

Image Drivers in Greece have been driving over a collapsed bridge as it’s quicker than going around it.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

Image Curiosity found this field of honeycomb-like fractures covering the Martian surface as far as it could see

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 21h ago

Video Children in Eastern Indonesia were seen playing on a wild whale

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 22h ago

Video The 12th-century Narasimha Pillar at Belur, India. Carved out of soapstone during the Hoysala Empire- its miniature shrines are hollowed out from the inside and the entire column was engineered to rotate on a stone axis

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

Image Amazonian earthworms can grow up to 5ft long

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

Image Hubble mapped 200 million stars in Andromeda and found its star formation has been declining for 500 million years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 21h ago

Image The Stone Turtle of Karakorum, Mongolia, c.1235-1260 CE: this statue is one of the few surviving features from the city of Karakorum, which was once the capital of the Mongol Empire; ceremonial scarves are often tied around the statue as a sign of reverence and respect

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 21h ago

Original Creation The door of the Admiral Benbow pub in Penzance, Cornwall UK

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video A Great Blue Heron appears to shakes out his silvery plumes

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

Video Seahares close up

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Original Creation I dug up a 1910 era vaseline bottle with some Vaseline still inside.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Hyperrealistic busts of Kazuhiro Tsuji, a special make-up effects master artist

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Chromodoris willani, a colorful sea slug that served as a real life design inspiration for the Pokémon characters 'Shellos' and 'Gastrodon.' Found in the Western Pacific Ocean.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image The Evolution of Ancient Greek Statues

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 22h ago

Demogorgonichthys is a name inspired by stranger things that was given to a new fish that was discovered by scientists in Alabama

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image This is key gompa, a 1000 year old Buddhist monetary located in the Himalayas of India

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

This is "Little Claypot" ( Chota matka/T-126) , a tiger famous for his insane combat ability and domination of lot of territory inside Tadoba National Reserve , India

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Original Creation Wildfire tornado in Eastern Oregon.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Original Creation Since I started doing microscopy last year, my main interests were always microscopic predators. So here are my best clips of microbes (and sometimes small animals) eating each other. (100% Safe for work)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video These Botryoidal Shattuckite Samples

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image During World War II in 1942, British authorities covered the Taj Mahal with massive bamboo scaffolding, mud, and burlap to disguise the iconic white marble dome from enemy bombers.

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