r/Damnthatsinteresting

u/GonzoVeritas·21 hours ago#1

u/Impossible-Bee-5343·6 days ago#2

Photographer Maria Passer captured the ice-covered empty buildings of Vorkuta, where winter temperatures drop as low as minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit. As residents leave the city, snow and ice completely encrust former living rooms, offices, and bedrooms

u/Electrical-Aspect-13·6 days ago#3

After more than a century of recovery efforts, a recent survey of the Seychelles giant tortoise population shows that it has jumped from 1,000 (in 1890s) to 180,000 today.Image

u/IM2X_·4 days ago#4

A British gardener grew a 26 kg (57 lb) beetroot, breaking the world record in 2026Image

u/mvincen95·3 days ago#5

Dr. Gay Hitler, son of George Washington Hitler, worked as a dentist in Circleville, Ohio, for over 40 years. Born in 1882, he lived long enough to see his surname become the most infamous in world history, dying in 1948.Image

u/SixteenSeveredHands·5 days ago#6

The Red Handfish: this fish has no swim bladder, so it uses hand-shaped fins to crawl along the seafloor instead, and it's one of the world's most endangered fishes, with fewer than 100 individuals remaining

u/west_manchester·1 day ago#7

Epic art in BrooklynImage

u/Chance-Ad197·3 days ago·sqonline.ucsd.edu#8

u/IM2X_·1 day ago#9

A man in Rhode Island just grew the first pumpkin in history to weigh over 3,000 pounds (1,431 kg), setting a new world recordImage

u/opmgyhx·7 days ago#10

Leafy seadragon, creature distinguished by its ability to camouflage itself among algae leaves, its appearance is astonishingImage