r/damnthatsinteresting images and videos

Short clip of a baby cuttlefish attempting its first camouflage :)

Meet Otter: The cat born without a full skull who wore a tiny protective helmet until he could get titanium skull surgery.

A 150-million-year-old Lepidotus fish fossil preserved from Holzmaden, Germany

This Ice Cream Boat

Massive street art in Melbourne

The correct way to eat Sushi

A 44 kg homemade armor made by Ned Kelly ( An outlaw from Australia )

Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral in France is built entirely using dark volcanic lava stone

Coronation of the skull relic of St. Agatha by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin.

Orange Oakleaf Butterfly in action

Hand With Rings (Hand mit Ringen) The first X-Ray of a human body part, captured by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. The test subject was his wife Anna Bertha Ludwig, who upon seeing the result, reportedly cried out "I have seen my death!"

Magnificent pink aurora over fairbanks , alaska

Lego Apartments “Habitat 67” in Montreal, QC, Canada

This Chinese movie 'Niu Lai' is so bad that it has become a box office hit. It doesn't have any trailer; cinemas struggled to find posters for it. Employees drew posters by hand in the absence of official art.

Astronauts attached hundreds of material samples to the outside of the International Space Station and left them exposed to space for years

What happens when you put a few drops of liquid Gallium onto a solid aluminum padlock. The process completely compromises the metal on a molecular level.

King Tutankhamun was buried in 1323 BC with an iron dagger crafted directly from a fallen extraterrestrial meteorite centuries before Ancient Egypt developed the technology to smelt iron ore.

The African Zulu hud bug

Guided missile of early 1960. Note how much electronics you need when there is no Microprocessor available

Alex Zanardi was an Italian racing driver. After a major crash in 2001, that resulted in the amputation of both his legs, he took up handcycling and won 4 golds at the Paralympics and 12 golds at the World Championships

Weaver ants build nests by pulling leaves together and using silk produced by their larvae to stitch leaves together

The special effects used for the 1957 Tollywood film Mayabazar

Never miss your attention to pre- dive briefing

A Beautiful view of Bacterial growth on a culture plate, showing the fascinating patterns and colors Formed by different bacterial colonies 🧫

Shabani the Gorilla waves at his son and invites him to come and play

The Finke River in central Australia is widely recognized as the world's oldest continuously flowing river system. Estimated to be 300 to 400 million years old, it predates land plants, trees, and dinosaurs.

miniature town model used in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

In 1984, NASA and the FAA deliberately crashed a remotely controlled Boeing 720 to test technologies that might help passengers and crew survive

Amethyst and Jade Leaf Grape Cluster (19th Century), Qing Dynasty, in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Meet Dejana Nezic, a Serbian painter who makes art without her hands.

Devil’s Pool 🇿🇲 on the edge of Victoria Falls.

During fires, trees can burn from within. And this is very dangerous - because you can't see anything on the outside, and smoldering of such a tree can go on for weeks after the fire seems to be extinguished. As a consequence, the forest can start burning again.

How some food manufacturers make us eat more of their product

Two Kiwis fighting on Rakiura/Stewart Island. Yes, that is the sound they make.

Lowland streaked tenrec

1957 Hiller Flying Platform

Antartica's Ice wall

This subway station in Greece

Deepest record: Nautilus pompilius recorded feeding during daytime at 703 m

This caterpillar is essentially a living zombie. Parasitic wasp larvae ate it from the inside out, chewed through its skin to spin these cocoons, and hijacked its brain to keep it alive.

Photos of the last 6 revolutionary war veterans alive in 1864. All over 100 years old

Shark eating a dead whale

Floating road through the mountains

Regular Coca Cola sinks while diet floats due to the artificial sweetener being less dense

Swimming bat

The mating display call of a male Australian Bustard sounds like a dinosaur

Metropolis was set in 2026: A look back at Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent sci-fi epic, its massive 5.1M Reichsmark budget, and how it nearly destroyed Germany's biggest studio. It was about what 2026 would look like.

A Catholic Christian procession on the island of Java, Indonesia.

Mole Cricket Tries to Dig Into Hand

The Meat-Shaped Stone is a superstar at the National Palace Museum, looking just like a piece of 'Dongpo pork' that melts in your mouth