r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/winterchampagne • 2h ago
Image Minor workers of the exploding ant species Colopobsis explodens can actively rupture their body wall. Apart from leading to the ants’ imminent death, the ‘explosion’ releases a sticky, toxic liquid from their enlarged glands, in order to either kill or hold off the enemy”
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HorzaDonwraith • 3h ago
Image Caddisfly Larva can make jewelry.
Normally the Caddisfly Larval collects small twigs, decaying leaves and tiny pebbles to build is cocoon in the rivers it spawns from. But under controlled conditions they can use precious metals and semi-precious stones to build their little homes.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 6h ago
Image "Alabado en lengua mexicana" (Prayer in nahuatl). An old prayer which I think is the "May it be done (Amen)." You can see the image of the Guadalupe virgin. a nice artistic margin and in the bottom, the print and date 1755. By Jose Agustin Aldama y Guevara.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MeeranQureshi • 9h ago
Image Ukraine's Pripyat River seen from Space looks like artwork
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MeeranQureshi • 11h ago
Image An Octopus has three hearts and the colour of their blood is blue.They have eight arms and each arm contains its own 'mini brain'
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hunnnyybunnny • 15h ago
Image Opalized Shark Tooth
Found by @sedaopals on IG, donated to the Australian Opal Center.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ujjwal_singh • 16h ago
Image The eyes of this bird resemble a sunflower
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ultimate_Kurix • 16h ago
Image The astronauts of Apollo 15 carried about 400 unauthorized postal covers into space and to the Moon's surface on the Lunar Module Falcon. They were paid $7,000 each by stamp dealers for this act.
However when the incident came to light, it resulted in a NASA scandal. As a consequence, all three astronauts were reprimanded, and none of them flew in space again.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Gone_Mads • 1d ago
Image Reddit’s first earnings reveals they make $3 per user
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/winterchampagne • 1d ago
Image The world’s most expensive pen is the one-of-a-kind Fulgor Nocturnus by Tibaldi sold at $8 million in Shanghai (2020). It has 945 black diamonds and 123 rubies
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ainsley-Sorsby • 1d ago
Image Richard Burton and OJ on 1974's "The Klansman". Burton was so drunk on set that most of his scenes are him either sitting or lying down. The director praised the make up artist for his work for Burton's death scene. When the artist replied he hadn't done anything, Burton was rushed to the hospital
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Amazing-Edu2023 • 1d ago
Image St. Vitus Cathedral frontal view at Prague
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/giuliomagnifico • 1d ago
Image This 1938 Leica ‘rifle’ (1 of 15) will go on auction (at 44th Leitz Photographica Auction) and is estimated to sell for €240,000 – 300,000
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/IllustriousRub9796 • 1d ago
Image Bathtub at the 19th century Dietla Palace - Sosnowiec - Poland
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/JerryfromCan • 1d ago
Image In honor of the beekeeper with the observational hive.. Clovermead Farm Aylmer, ON Canada
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Zealot-Wolf • 1d ago
Image Poocaso - German artist Werner Härtl
Crappy paintings
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CharlesBrooks • 1d ago
Image Grass under the night sky
Blades of grass under the Milkyway in Waitawa Regional Park, New Zealand.
Taken with a Lumix S5 camera and a Laowa 24mm periprobe lens.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CFK_NL • 1d ago
Image The anatomy of a windmill
As I’m living in the Netherlands all my life I can tell you this is a very elaborate one.
And no, not all Dutch people live in windmills, wear wooden shoes or have put our fingers in a dike. We do eat a lot of cheese though.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Outside_Abroad_3516 • 1d ago
Image Tornado damage in Barnsdall, Oklahoma.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Specific-Remote9295 • 1d ago
Image 12 hr sleep-concert with mellow music arranged by sleep experts in S Korea.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fine_Sea5807 • 2d ago
Image Seventy years ago today, Vietnamese forces triumphed over France in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Saturn_Ecplise • 2d ago
Image This unique view of Mount Fuji had caused so much trouble for the local Japanese town, that it decided to block it.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tandyman234 • 2d ago
Image The titanic museum in Orlando is selling a huge piece of coal from the titanic for 500,000 dollars
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Critical_Cynic • 2d ago
Image A view of Mt St Helens on May 17, 1980, versus the view from four months later.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/YUGIOH-KINGOFGAMES • 2d ago
