r/Damnthatsinteresting | car buried in snow

former billionaire chuck feeney has given away over 99 of his 6.3 billion dollars to help underprivileged kids go to college he is now worth two million dollars hey bezos i got someone i want you to meet what's up sexy i'm lexie and welcome back to mk today is a new one for me and for the channel in the form of r slash dang that is interesting let's get started in 2017 a baby was born in china four years after his parents died in a car crash his grandparents fought a lengthy legal battle which allowed them to use the couple's embryos which had been frozen in liquid nitrogen the baby was born to a surrogate mother and after his birth all four grandparents took a dna test to prove that the baby was indeed their grandson that's really cool but also raises all sorts of weird ethical questions about like preserving bloodlines and stuff science is amazing and horrifying the eulon magnolia blossoms appear to look like little birds oh my god i thought that was actually a bird for two seconds that's amazing why do plants know how birds look like i'm afraid the plants have eyes please stop depicting bloodfish like this i'm in unimaginable pain mood this is not cute or silly this is the disfigured corpse of an animal whose tissues have exploded due to rapid pressure change from surfacing instead try depicting them like this oh much better psychrolutes the proper name for blobfish look like this in their natural habitat deep in the sea happy handsome and alive i appreciate the intent behind this and the science behind it is actually really cool but i mean also people are just allowed to find specific things cute or silly welcome to the internet two volunteers in india give lessons to poor children under the bridge for free actual freaking heroes and i will hear no arguments to the contrary a man named chen c spends every weekend of his life at the oh no i'm gonna mispronounce this nanjing yangst river bridge the world's number one suicide site and saves people from jumping he has saved more than 321 people from killing themselves again actual freaking hero and i will hear no arguments to the contrary bus drivers in japan went on a strike but continued to drive their routes while refusing to take fees from passengers so keeping japan on time but costing the bus companies gas on top of lost revenue oh that's really smart i like that things from the past where the terms uppercase and lowercase came from from the early days of the printing press i did actually know this printing presses were freaking amazing if you ever have the time go down a youtube rabbit hole about the printing press it's it's really neat my lastest sand castle i'm not sure if this is your latest or your last but if it's your last this is a fitting finale to an amazing skilled career if it's your latest i i look forward to your future work before and after of a man who walked across china for a year that's just ridiculously impressive this is this is stuff i could never do population density of the usa yep people don't realize just how large the us is also it would very much like a house out in the middle of like that giant space anywhere there is a festival in nepal that dedicates an entire day to thank dogs for their friendship and loyalty why don't we have this in the u.s it is absolutely unacceptable we need this also i know this isn't what's happening but it looks like he's sprinkling the dog with shredded cheese and the dog's just like yes someone punched a wall in the men's toilets and staff decided to frame it fragile masculinity artist unknown 2018. clearly the artist had a great passion for his work what's something that seems obvious within your profession but the general public seems to misunderstand that 35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100 to the publisher and 0 to the authors if you just email us to ask for papers we are allowed to send them to you for free and we will be genuinely delighted to do so that's actually really cool i had no idea that was a thing in the 20 years before einstein died he almost never accepted invitations to speak at universities in 1946 he broke his self-imposed rule to give an address and accept an honorary degree from a small traditionally black university lincoln university in pennsylvania at lincoln university he declared the separation of the races is not a disease of colored people but a disease of white people i do not intend to be quiet about it down below albert einstein teaches a physics class to young black men 1946 wise freaking words and that just makes him even more of an amazing human 35 minute time exposure of illegal fireworks being set off in los angeles this is a really cool picture but i live in new york city so my appreciation for illegal fireworks is thin gorgeous photo though my dad is a house painter and recently started framing leftover paint from the inside of work buckets he calls it bucket ott hard but we're from maine i hope you guys think it's as interesting as i do that is actually really cool you get some like truly random patterns out of that well done opie's dad thomas jefferson's sixth great grandson recreates his photo i love it i want to see these for all the founding fathers a father designs a headstone for his wheelchair-bound son depicting him free of his earthly burdens oh that's so sweet daft punk performing helmetless in 1993. oh no the magic is lost this photo was released and they broke up that's that's why that's why it happened they actually looked pretty rad this is what an illegally taken picture from one of the great pyramids looks like i i didn't know you could could it was illegal to take pictures of the pyramids from certain angles it's kind of fascinating to see though age 15 age 17. practice is a hell of a drug in a small town in county cork ireland a monument stands in appreciation to the american choctaw indian tribe although impoverished shortly after being forced to walk the trail of tears the tribe somehow gathered 170 dollars to send to ireland for famine relief in 1847. i didn't even know that i why aren't they teaching this in us schools juan catalan spent nearly six months in jail for the murder of a teenage girl until his lawyer found unused footage from hbo's curb your enthusiasm that proved he'd been at a dodgers game with his six-year-old daughter this is horrifying amazing work on the part of the lawyer horrifying that we put an innocent guy away for six months and some have been away for much longer i just found out how koalas are weighed and it's just the cutest thing ever that's adorable no name is the gem of canada every product is so unbelievably ominous i really laugh my ass off every time i go shopping cola cocoa apple beverage mayonnaise in 2017 glenn raines ran the boston marathon 26.22 miles or 42.195 kilometers dressed in nothing but a faux fur loincloth and a necklace made of human and animal bones and yes he was barefoot instantly dubbed the caveman by fellow runners reigns finished in a respectable 3 hours 40 minutes and 43 seconds he trained for over a year to toughen his feet and allow time for his hair to grow out when asked why he did it he replied that he just wanted to remind people that expensive running shoes and high-tech athletic clothing are nice to have but are not as important as balanced diet and determination and also that hey it was fun you and i have very different definitions of the word fun but well freaking done cleft lip and cleft palate two-week surgery i assume this is two weeks after surgery but oh he's doing so good the longest road in the world that a person can walk on holy crap 4492 hours that's 187 days that's half a freaking year this is nearly impossible to narrate but we'll just scroll these past so you can see every single one of them because they are all magical also i don't usually feel old but i feel old right now never too late well freaking done train with joan that looks like the handle joan you're an absolute badass in the 1930s a flute player had a pet lyrebird that mimicked his music he later released it into the wild fragments of the flute player's music were passed down by generations of liar birds and are still present in their songs today that's some amazing butterfly effect stuff right there you could theoretically send a message through generations encoded in song that's so cool i spent 2 years and 18 hours of exposure time to capture the crescent nebula i've been a photo geek since i was in high school but i i still have no idea how you did this this is amazing there's a banyan tree in pakistan that has been chained and officially arrested since 1898 this happened when james squid a british officer thought the tree was moving towards him after drinking alcohol stop tree expanding the space stretching the space vertically closing the space these are really cool highlighting the wall decreasing the space elongating this it's weird how these actually work stretching the space horizontally bringing the ceiling down and shortening the space that's that's crazy that's some real estate photographer magic magic carpets the art of fake ahmed's melted and pixelated rugs where pieces sell for upwards of fifteen thousand dollars typically they begin as a classic pattern that encounters an obstacle or glitch a sort of technical meltdown you're selling actual textile glitch art that is so cool that is amazing i want one in the early years of spaceflight both russians and americans use pencils in space unfortunately pencil lead is made of graphite a highly conductive material snapped graphite leads and particles in zero gravity are hugely problematic as they will get sucked into air ventilators or electronic equipment easily causing shorts or fires in the pure oxygen environment of a capsule after the fire in apollo 1 which killed all the astronauts on board nasa required a riding instrument that wasn't a fire hazard fisher spent over a million dollars of his own money creating a pressurized ballpoint pen which nasa bought at and ninety-five cents each the russian space program also switched over from pencils shortly after forty years later snide morons on the internet still snicker about it because snide morons on the internet never know what they're talking about i actually knew about this as a kid because i was and still am a nasa geek and i was really excited to get a fisher space pen one year for a birthday present and yes pencils aren't the best tools sometimes they just aren't lala an injured king penguin was nursed back to health in japan he refused to leave his caregivers so they adopted him and gave him an air-conditioned room in their house he would explore the neighborhood receive fish from the store and lived with the family for 10 years before dying of old age in 1996. oh my god that's adorable oh that's so cute this is what tokyo the largest city on earth looks like from a plane i want to explore it i'm not really somebody who likes to travel because i hate losing stuff but i i i want to explore this now in 1956 after losing a bed at a bar thomas fitzpatrick successfully stole a plane from the airport and landed it in front of the bar then two years later he did it again after a man didn't believe he had done it the first time such a freaking mad lad scientists have managed to revive a plant from the in their vials this guy is 32 000 years old no no no no this is really cool i'm really impressed by it but 2020 was bad enough put that plant back where you found it the orgo and accumulator was a device sold in the 1950s its inventor claimed it allowed a person sitting inside to attract orgone or oregon a massless healing energy when the fda was investigating the device they noted that one purchaser a college professor knew it was a phony but found it helpful because his wife sat quietly in it for four hours every day oh no this sashimi roll that's amazingly precise i i have no words that's oddly satisfying this belongs to oddly satisfying too complete ancient rome replica 36 years in the making holy crap my hands hurt just thinking about that that's that's insane this should basically be the law it all ruins krusevac fortress in serbia with a window to its glorious past yes sometimes you have no idea what you're looking at it just looks like some crumbled rocks and you don't know where everything was before this is magnificent this is the closest photo of saturn ever taken i had no idea there was like a nearly hexagonal shape up there that is rad chicago public school teacher dwayne reed whose wife is eight months pregnant with their first child requested to work from home to minimize his covert risk his school district said no so reed's teaching remotely from right outside his school half of this subreddit is just like unsung heroes that's really what it is also shame on you chicago public school board jim thorpe the legendary native american athlete had his shoes stolen just before he was about to compete in the olympics he found a mismatched pair of shoes in the trash can and went on to win a gold medal wearing them he was also the first native american to win a gold medal for the united states that holy crap again just unsung heroes just people achieving extraordinary things this is this is more than interesting this is amazing ridiculously amazing genetics is so cool my parents always told me i looked like my dad's mom but i never got to meet her before she passed away on the right is my grandmother holding my dad and left is me holding my son taken exactly 63 years apart oh that is really cool i love it girl came into my work and after a bit of conversation showed me that she had six fingers on each hand this isn't photoshopped this is an actual photo of a customer who came into the phone store i work at in summerville south carolina i want six fingers on each hand that sounds awesome the 1966 north dakota blizzard holy they do have something in north dakota snow difference between orange suit and white suit did you ever wonder why astronauts sometimes wear orange suits and sometimes white the orange colored advance crew escape suit aces is the space shuttle ascent and entry suit this particular color is highly visible against any kind of landscape especially in the sea the white colored ones are the bulkier extra vehicular activity eva suits this is because white reflects the strong heat of the sun and is easily visible against the black expanse of space nerdby often wondered how much heat like the little u.s patch and the mission patch like soak up just me what orthognathic surgery can do i probably butchered that but that is impressive i'm guessing the jaw doesn't come forward enough for something that's that's really cool cistercian monks made this numeral system in the 13th century a single symbol could represent numbers up to 9999 they were used for years divisions of texts the numbering of notes and other lists indices and concordances arguments and easter tablets and even for musical notation this seems incredibly useful i'm really surprised we don't use it now turning a dead tree into a small free library that looks like something straight out of a fairy tale oh that's so cute it's adorable i absolutely love it d-day veterans sitting across from their younger cells in the same plane which dropped them into normandy in 1944. wow that is oh that is wild with schools closed sbcsc buses equipped with free wi-fi will be parked throughout city neighborhoods for families that don't have axes at home but did you know sb schools have been doing this throughout the entire year on evenings and weekends this is another innovative way that sb public schools have been assisting those working families who need it the most great job and thank you again unsung heroes i don't even know if that's a subreddit but this is exactly what this is these are two different prisoners will west on the left and william west on the right they lived about 100 years ago were not related and did not know each other but they are part of the reason that fingerprint recognition was brought in oh yeah yeah i'm glad we found a more reliable unique identifier scientists believe that a function of zebra's stripes is to deter insects so a team of researchers painted black and white stripes on several cows and discovered that it reduced the number of biting flies landing on the cows by more than 50 percent oh my god i'm about to paint my entire house black and white stripes my biggest problem with nature is bugs an original zippo of the war in vietnam vietnam saigon 68-69 too young to vote but not to die too young to love but too old to cry this is both beautiful and wildly depressing and that brings us to the end of our slash dang that was interesting it certainly left up to its name it's a weird one but definitely had some cool nuggets in there as always to wrap things up we have some lovely fan art to show you today's fan 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Published: Tue May 04 2021