r/damnthatsinteresting images and videos

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

10 F1 cars suddenly limited to 30 km/h because of a software bug

Firefighter bodycam showing just how much oxygen a fire pulls

Anhydrous ammonia leak

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

The process of making badminton shuttlecocks from raw feathers

The world’s oldest bartender, Irvin Koch, runs a bar out of his basement

Pictures Showing Climate Change's Impact in Arctic from 1900s to 2003

Ants building a house from leaves. Nature's engineers at work

The first Odometer! The Roman Empire, of course.

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

TIL about "Vanille Elatis", one of the rarest honeys in the world — harvested only in a single mountain region in Greece, non-crystallizing, with no added vanilla.

Spontaneous 1995 street interview with an Austrian WWII veteran in Vienna

This man went to see what was causing all the traffic and found two marmots fighting in the middle of the road

USSR and the USA thought it was gay to dock a space craft

Legendary percussion sheet of Steve Foreman, used in Hollywood soundtracks

After 14 Years of Photographing This Volcano, He Finally Captured This Once-in-a-Lifetime Moment

Custom Hand Made Boots

A massive traffic jam in China. The country has entered “Golden Week” — from October 1 to 7, millions of residents are going on trips, which is why the roads and popular tourist destinations are overcrowded.

104 skydivers, 20 nations, and one breathtaking world-record moment

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.

Around 400–450 CE — an Indian iron pillar was forged that has survived for more than 1,600 years with remarkable resistance to corrosion. Source: comment

Baby bird walks up to a leopard and, after being caught, plays dead

Guard bees don't let drunk bees in to protect the hive. Fermented nectar can ruin the colony's honey supply, and intoxicated bees fly erratically and can behave aggressively. They have to sober up before coming back.

​A remarkably tall dust devil spinning over the terrain in Arizona

Street art in Milan

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

"Mike the Durable," a homeless Irish alcoholic in 1933 New York, survived a gang's attempts to kill him for insurance with antifreeze, rat poison, a freezing night, and a speeding car. The antifreeze likely failed because the alcohol he drank all day is a medical antidote.

A giant rock giving thumbs up

I survived a bomb explosion at 4 years old. 28 years later, my body started hurting so I got a full body scan and discovered I’m full of metal. I've been carrying a literal map of that blast inside me for three decades. The doctors stopped counting after 10 pieces! This happened in 1993!

The largest ever recorded kayak drop from a glacial waterfall

BTS Indie filmmaking Special effects rig

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

Deer encounters Iberian Lynx at watering hole - and attacks...

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.

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

Venezuelan Poodle Moth - Zoologist Dr. Arthur Anker photographed the insect in the Gran Sabana region of Canaima National Park in Venezuela, 2009

This is how Titanic filmed the terrifying flooded hallway scene

Lots of magicians are about to go out of work.

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

Pink Robin (Petroica rodinogaster) is a small passerine bird native to southeastern Australia. Its natural habitats are cool temperate forests of far southeastern Australia. — by Deepak Karra

Astronaut's view of Earth during a spacewalk

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

Crisp glass negatives of Anna Haining Swan (6 Aug 1846 - 5 Aug 1888) at the time worker for P. T. Barnum in New York. At a height of 2.41m tall she was one of the biggest humans to ever live. Photos circa 1860s.

This is what Stockholm’s telephone network looked like in the 1890s — around 5,000 phone lines connected through one giant tower.

This hognose snake has 2 heads🔥

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

The Veil Nebula over Mount Ngauruhoe captured by Evan McKay

A rhinoceros casually walks out of an ATM in Nepal

Ancient Rome had a tradition under which a roman commander who broke rules of engagement was handed over to the enemy by the Romans themselves, in order to absolve the city the crime. A proposal was made in 55BC to deliver Julius Caesar to a germanic tribe he had massacred after breaking a truce