r/damnthatsinteresting images and videos

Martial artist & knife fighting instructor Doug Marcaida shows how lethal a 'karambit' could be in the hands of an expert

Among the Ga people in Ghana , the coffins are designed to reflect the deceased person's career,personality or something he loved dearly

In Holland there is a museum that shows you the entire human body from the inside, you will be a tiny person inside the recreation of a human body, it is in the Corpus Museum of Oegstgeest

During a World Cup football match, a QR code appeared on the stadium screen. After fans scanned it, thousands of phone flashlights inside the stadium were synchronized to form a coordinated light display across the stands.

Devastation in La Guaira after being struck by twin 7 magnitude earthquakes today

This is Ousado , a Jaguar in Brazil who is famous for its unique hunting style of reverse ambushing Caimans from river banks

​A truck carrying 406 beehives crashed in Texas, releasing 24 million bees and locking down the neighborhood

Wasp traps paralyzed ladybug larvae in a chamber for its young to feast on after hatching.

Male hummingbird shows off his moves in front of a female.

Indonesia’s Rare Rafflesia Blooms After 15 Years — The World’s Largest “Corpse Flower”

​A 6-foot-8 Alligator Gar, a species that has survived unchanged for 100 million years

Winds in Patagonia reaching hurricane-force speeds, exceeding 100 mph

Scots apply their mark in Boston for the World Cup with a symbolic Glasgow tradition of putting traffic cones on statues

How seamless curved LED displays can be used to create massive 3D depth illusions

In the extremely rural parts of China, there are judges who roam the mountainous countryside with their clerks and bailiffs, hearing cases in makeshift "circuit courts", allowing remote villages to access the judicial system and resolve disputes. (The national emblem is carried around on their back)

The fastest sperm doesn't win, the egg chooses

A 1000 year old Oak tree in the Sherwood Forest, said to be where the legendary hero Robinhood used to hide out with his Merry Men, has died recently.

Harvestmen (Daddy Long-Legs): unlike spiders, these arachnids consume solid food, and they have an omnivorous diet that includes mushrooms, berries, and seeds, along with invertebrate prey; contrary to popular belief, they are also completely non-venomous

Street art in Estonia

This 1300-year-old monkey jar was carved from a single piece of volcanic glass (obsidian) by Aztec artisans. It's so perfectly polished it acts like a mirror.

A brain scan of a typical brain (left) compared to an anonymous patient known as S.M. Patient S.M. was born with a condition called Urbach-Wiethe disease, which damaged her amygdala and left her virtually incapable of feeling fear.

Epic mid-air ambush by a leopard at Kruger National Park , South Africa

Flyover pillar artwork in Hyderabad, India

Cincinnati built over two miles of subway tunnel. They never ran a single train through it smh

Octopus eggs in case ya'll have never seen any

FPV drone captures a close-up volcanic explosion and flying debris in 8K 360°

Victorian prosthetic made by James Gillingham (1839–1924). Photos circa 1880s-1900s.

Leaf insects, also known as walking leaves, are masters of camouflage that mimic plant foliage in detail.

Vascular system of horse hoof laminae

In Belgium, Brussels, there is a tomb that is lit up by a Heart of Light every summer solstice, as a reminder that "love is stronger than death". Léonce Evrard had this building constructed when his wife Louise Flignot died. The tomb sits in Laeken's cemetery.

🔥 Valonia ventricosa, aka Sailor's Eyeball Algae, is the largest single-cell organism on Earth.

A 4K remaster of the 1978 FIFA World Cup Final between Argentina and Netherlands, widely regarded as one of the most violent World Cup finals in history.

In France, to slow down traffic, they have these fake children by the side of the road

Explosion in slow motion shows how fire spreads-what eyes can't see.

This short film from 1930 explaining how to wear a monocle

First confirmed sighting of a Pine Marten in a century and it was in a man's back garden

Ice expanding from a hole in a pipe

Depleted uranium found yesterday in a recycling plant in Argentina

The Klitschko brothers and their dad. Vitali and Wladimir dominated boxing for 20 years. Vitali (L) who was never knocked down in his career, is regarded as one of the greatest living heavyweights, matched only by Lennox Lewis.

Ancient Greece would have likely looked like this. This is a reconstruction of Curetes Street in ancient Ephesus

The Platybelodon was a distant relative of the elephant, known for its elongated spoon shaped jaw

Four pelican chicks have hatched in St James's Park, marking the first successful pelican births there in more than 360 years.⁣ ⁣

Fire in Miami Florida on my ride home from work today. 20,000 acres burned so far

The impressive hovering ability of a kestrel

Eel larvae are almost completely transparent

Dutch fans in Kansas city, so vibrant!

Habitat 67, one of Montréal’s most prominent architectural icons .