r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SugarLips_Stella • 1h ago
Image Hungarian physician Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis proved that doctors washing their hands (not yet standard for mid-19th century Europe) greatly reduced hospital maternal mortality. As germs weren't discovered yet, he was ridiculed & later dismissed from his post.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ainsley-Sorsby • 1h ago
Image This is Dolly, a young dinosaur(diplodocus) that lived about 140 million years ago. The marks in her neck bones offer unique evidence of respiratory illnesses in dinosaurs: she had airsacculitis, an infection seen in modern birds and reptiles. She had a cough, a runny nose and difficulty breathing
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DesignFantastic6191 • 4h ago
Video How's your country's trash management?
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/lonelyRedditor__ • 5h ago
Video Wild indian bison encounter ,they weight 1500 kg and are around 7'2 ft with horns which can grow upto 4 ft. There have been cases of them even killing tigers
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AravRAndG • 5h ago
Video Nature is something else
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Same_Investigator_46 • 7h ago
Video Robot police in patrolling La that films and reports activities
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Accurate-Albatross34 • 7h ago
Some images of fruits and vegetables before and after domestication and gene modification
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TRIPYXEN • 8h ago
Video The artist employs a unique technique known as pyrography, where fire is used as a medium to create intricate and expressive paintings.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MyIpodStillWorks • 8h ago
Image The way the ice forms under this pier
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mujahid_Ali_224 • 9h ago
Video Sit anywhere you want to
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pichipichipoco • 11h ago
Video Crows plucking ticks off wallabies like they're fat juicy grapes off the vine
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/UncleDawi • 12h ago
Image Size of Tokyo compared to London and the UK.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RossTheRev • 14h ago
Image Predjama Castle in Slovenia has stood on a 123-meter cliff for 800+ years, making it the largest cave castle in the world!
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WhattheDuck9 • 17h ago
Video Testing the durability of a Toyota Hilux
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FewCap982 • 17h ago
Video In 2017, Brazilian Surfer Rodrigo Koxa Broke the World Record For Biggest Wave Ever Surfed, with 24,38m. Nazare, Portugal.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ani_HArsh • 18h ago
Video This is Henry, a Nile crocodile. It is reported to be the oldest known crocodile in the world, born on December 16, 1900
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 19h ago
Video Woman alerts chickens about a hawk
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CantStopPoppin • 19h ago
Video Mesmerizing Cotton candy art
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ok_Writing_9320 • 20h ago
Graves of unidentified individuals
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/flyingcatwithhorns • 21h ago
Video The owner of this house in China refused to move for development, so a road was built around it. These are know as 'nail houses'
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/charliphoenix • 23h ago
Image In 1970 , a gay man discovered a loophole in Minnesota law that said gay marriage wasn't explicitly illegal as long as officials allowed it. He then changed his name legally from 'Jack' to 'Pat Lyn' and fooled officials into thinking he was a woman thereby successfully getting a marriage license
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/rose_lione • 1d ago
Image The woman here is Lucy Higgs Nichols who escaped Slavery and became a Civill War Nurse
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Bad-Umpire10 • 1d ago
Image A fake nude photo of American Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was debunked by foot fetishists, who, through their extensive experience, identified that the toes in the photo did not belong to her.
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/About_56_Ninjas • 1d ago
Image Lego sent me a letter along with my missing part
r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Entire_Visit_7327 • 1d ago
Video How a Phonograph Cylinders from 1896 works in nowadays
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