r/interestingasfuck images and videos

The tree perfectly fitting into the sunset.

Monkey Smells a Century Egg.

Gray squirrel from Japan's Hokkaido island. Woah.

28 years ago, Karl Bushby left the UK in an attempt to become the first person to circumnavigate the world on foot. Yesterday, he arrived in Dover for the final leg of his journey to his mother’s home in Hull.

A vet vaccinated a turtle, and instead of hiding in its shell, it ran to its owner

A raccoon figured out that if he blocks the drive-thru, they’ll give him a donut to make him leave

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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The humanoid robotics company "Figure" made their older gen robots jump into their death. (Yes, they actually did this)

I have a jurassic park themed backyard to house my 24 turtles/tortoises. here are just SOME of their enclosures (daytime summer use)

Pizza delivery guy gets insulted, internet gets revenge

Woman navigates airport with no arms

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.

5x world champion Magnus Carlsen and 5x world champion Viswanathan Anand look at each other's game while both their opponents scratch their heads.

Water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light".

Columbine High School Class of 1999 pic

He wanted out of life subscriptions so bad

This is what a camel toe looks like

It took this photographer 6 years and 720,000 photos to capture this one perfect shot.

Photographer Christophe Courteau captured the exact moment a gorilla punched him

US stamp from 1974

This is what happens when you take long exposure photos of planes taking off

There are four people in this photo

From inside the cockpit of a Ukrainian MiG-29, the pilot flips off the exploding wreckage of a Russian attack drone he has just blasted out of the sky.

Rebecca Romijn's iconic Mystique makeup in X-Men (2000) took 10 hours to do. Wow!

This is scarface, a over 70 years old salt water crocodile living in Australia. Due to its age it has lost all his teeth

During a show in 2004, Rafiki held up a real lion cub in Disneyland Paris.

A man builds a personal plane with no pilot license or registration required

The mummy of King Ramesses II

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.

This father before and after a liver transplant

A 3 hour time lapse that shows why swallowing a battery is a medical emergency

Wheelchair to electric trike converter

Recorded on October 6, 2026, in Sochi, Russia. A street musician continues to play music on the waterfront while an oil tanker burns offshore in the background.

Woman reveals the secret to Sichuan Opera Face-Changing

A drone was brought down by a cat inside a mosque.

Chasing a cruise missile mid-air. Most cruise missile travels at subsonic speeds, which is why the jet is easily able to keep up with it.

Tossing food straight onto people’s plates from her seat.

Fresh Kills Landfill: beneath this hill lies most of the 9/11 debris and rubble.

Wine flooded the streets of Portugal after a tank burst from distillery mistake (2023)

Using real shadows to play a video game

The Greater Blue-Eared Starling. The stunning iridescent plumage isn't just color - it's a high-tech light-reflecting structure! Paired with those fiery orange eyes, it's one of nature's most vibrant masterpieces

A cube of the rarest stable element in the universe

What happens when you open a window at -60°C (-76°F)

The Asian Swamp Eel

Scorpion venom is valued at roughly $39 million per gallon (3.8 liters), making it the most expensive liquid on Earth. In 2-3 weeks, the scorpions will provide another drop.

Kabang, the hero dog who shielded two children from an oncoming motorcycle collision.

Firefighter bodycam showing just how much oxygen a fire pulls

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.