r/Damnthatsinteresting

🔥 Hot ▲ 27.1k r/Damnthatsinteresting+5 crossposts

In Vinnytsia, Ukraine, a female stork was widowed when her mate died. She is incubating her eggs and is unable to feed herself. Local residents have started feeding her.

u/Everyinkspot1177 — 4 hours ago
🔥 Hot ▲ 14.4k r/Damnthatsinteresting+1 crossposts

hanging “beds” are called portaledges.. collapsible platforms used by climbers during multi-day ascents

u/LazyGuy4U — 4 hours ago
🔥 Hot ▲ 12.3k r/Damnthatsinteresting

Alsomitra macrocarpa has seeds which use paper-thin wings to disperse like giant gliders

u/M_Darshan — 6 hours ago
â–˛ 3.3k r/Damnthatsinteresting+1 crossposts

In 1978, U.S. Navy ship USS Stein was apparently attacked by an unknown species of giant squid. Almost all cuts on the SONAR dome contained remains of the sharp, curved claws that are found on the rims of the suction cups of some squid tentacles; these claws were much larger than any squid species

u/CompetitionTrue7021 — 7 hours ago
🔥 Hot ▲ 91.1k r/Damnthatsinteresting+3 crossposts

"Tsitakakantsa" The largest Baobab tree in Madagascar is fading away after a long life of 1,200 years old

u/Photo-70 — 13 hours ago

Microscopic animal called Tardigrade, they're eight-legged invertebrates famous for their extreme resilience, able to survive conditions like the vacuum of space, extreme temperatures, and radiation.

u/Additional-Ad4567 — 7 hours ago
â–˛ 3.3k r/Damnthatsinteresting+2 crossposts

The equator monument vs. The actual equator location

In Ecuador there is a massive monument on the equator. When modern mapping techniques were developed, they found out that the monument was off by half a km. The real equator is beside this tour-bus parking lot, in a ravine on the other side of the wall. This was as close as I could get without climbing over the wall.

u/Flimsy-Pool4830 — 10 hours ago

This little bird crashed into my window and couldn’t fly away. I held it for a while and took care of it a little, and after some time it flew away on its own.

u/Sadharanmanusya — 7 hours ago

Narendra Kumar from India was rushed to the hospital after severe weight loss. Doctors found is parasitic twin growing inside of him with teeth and hair in his body. It had been growing inside of him for 18 years.

u/GoatSevere1966 — 11 hours ago