r/interestingasfuck

u/Key_Performer_3645·23 hours ago#1

Marie Wilcox realized she was the last person on Earth who could speak the Wukchumni language fluently, so at 82, she taught herself to use a computer and spent seven years typing a 6,000-word Wukchumni dictionary, the first written record of the language in history, to save it from extinction.

u/GeorgeRobertVitkos·1 day ago#2

In the Italian Alps shepherds use a traditional donkey nanny with custom saddle pouches to carry newborn lambs that are too weak to walk the long trek down

u/Brief_Research_9062·23 hours ago#3

The Crystal Palace in London, 1851, where they built the world's first glass structure in just 9 months. It was three times the size of St Paul's Cathedral and had living elm trees inside it.

u/jgzogaib·12 hours ago#4

Polaroid engineer Howard G. Rogers and his team posing with the 5,000 bottles of chemical compounds they tested to invent instant color film (1963)

u/b0wz3rM41n·21 hours ago#5

Ancient Chinese Characters c. 1250 BC (Oracle Bone Script)

u/xxnoxynoxxnoxy·10 hours ago#6

The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife crossing over the 101 finally going to open. It's a critical move to prevent the local extinction of the Santa Monica mountain lion, nearly 60 of which have been struck and killed by vehicles since 2002.

u/imfrom_mars_·16 hours ago#7

The Hoysaleswara Temple in India was built under the Hoysala dynasty. An inscription dated 1121 CE records its early history, and its intricate stone carvings remain breathtaking nearly 900 years later.

u/tyw7·20 hours ago#8

SR 71 Blackbird at IWM Duxford

u/mustu04·17 hours ago#9

Anna Bagenholm survived with the lowest recorded body temperature