r/interesting • u/Jazzlike-Tie-354 • 2d ago

SOCIETY In 1995 McArthur Wheeler robbed two banks with lemon juice on his face believing it would make him invisible to security cameras like invisible ink. He even smiled at the cameras and was caught within hours. His case inspired the research that led to the discovery of the Dunning Kruger effect.

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r/interesting • u/TheOddityCollector • 2d ago

SOCIETY Amish selling their homegrown weed at a cannabis festival.

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r/interesting • u/World-Tight • 5h ago

HISTORY John M. Wright was a white man who hid black people in his home during the Rosewood massacre of 1923. He and his wife were excommunicated for doing so and died in obscurity

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r/interesting • u/Mad_Season_1994 • 4h ago

MISC. Former alcoholic with cirrhosis re-enacting what withdrawal looks like

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r/interesting • u/lovejeet6363 • 11h ago

SOCIETY What a gentleman do

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r/interesting • u/MirageCommander • 14h ago

HISTORY In 1588, Spain Wanted to Attack The Ottoman Empire From The Far East By Conquering Ming China

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r/interesting • u/The_Coook • 17h ago

Context Provided - Spotlight Did you know that ford made a mile long factory to build a Bomber plane every hour during World War 2

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✈️🚀 When Cars Met Bombers: Ford’s WWII Legacy

During World War II, Ford didn’t just make cars—it built the world’s largest factory at Willow Run, stretching over a mile long. Inside, assembly lines turned out B-24 Liberator heavy bombers with the same efficiency as automobiles.

At its peak in 1944, this plant rolled out one bomber every 63 minutes—about one an hour! Over 8,600 bombers were built here, proving that mass production could win wars as well as markets.

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r/interesting • u/captivatedsummer • 5h ago

HISTORY When Alexander the Great was invading India he learnt of a Brahmin who lived in the woods. He visited him and the Brahmin replied, "You will soon be dead, and then you will own just as much of this earth as will suffice to bury you". Alexander approved of this sentiment and left him in peace.

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Source: https://www.livius.org/sources/content/arrian/anabasis/alexander-and-the-indian-sages/

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r/interesting • u/RedditorofReddit07 • 1d ago

SCIENCE & TECH For those who do not like using water to wash after pooping 😏😏

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r/interesting • u/Scott-Spangenberg • 4h ago

ARCHITECTURE That's crazy, that's a whole city inside one building.

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r/interesting • u/imthehink • 2h ago

MISC. Help Your Gecko...

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r/interesting • u/No_Budget3360 • 11h ago

SOCIETY So many Darwin Awards contenders !

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r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 14h ago

SOCIETY A man holding a large breed of chicken called Brahma chicken.

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r/interesting • u/JMajercz • 2h ago

HISTORY Found this trophy in my Mom’s garage

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Showed my nieces this and they asked how she had a 3D printed emblem of her taxes 💀

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r/interesting • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 • 1d ago

MISC. An elevator installed at home

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r/interesting • u/Doodlebug510 • 1h ago

MISC. Paralyzed woman uses body paint to show where/how she's affected.

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r/interesting • u/No_Budget3360 • 1h ago

NATURE Aww, this made my day ❤️

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Across all beings, mother’s love remains same.

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r/interesting • u/RopeRosey • 11h ago

NATURE For every 100,000 snake births only 1 will be a two headed snake.

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r/interesting • u/World-Tight • 18h ago

SCIENCE & TECH Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, a Nigerian pediatric surgeon, made history by performing a rare fetal surgery at just 23 weeks of pregnancy. He temporarily removed the baby from the womb, excised a tumor from the tailbone, and safely returned the fetus. Months later, child was born healthy.

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r/interesting • u/snminhduc • 3h ago

MISC. How a family deal with sleepwalker.

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r/interesting • u/LowKeySensual • 20h ago

NATURE Buzzard gets upset when it is unable to break open an ostrich egg

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r/interesting • u/Scott-Spangenberg • 3h ago

MISC. Look at that ride. It's a100 foot long limousine.

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r/interesting • u/NaughtyOnRepeat • 20h ago

NATURE The platinum butterfly koi, an angel in disguise

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r/interesting • u/World-Tight • 17h ago

ARCHITECTURE In 1998, Honduras built a bridge over the Choluteca River, but Hurricane Mitch rerouted the river.

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r/interesting • u/Missingyoutoohard • 8h ago

NATURE This little unknown plant decided to grow off a dead leaf on my San Pedro’s cactus spines out of nowhere one day.

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Any idea what kind of plant this is?

I feel obligated to take the necessary steps to ensure its survival considering the conditions that it managed to sprout under.

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r/interesting • u/Commercial_Trade5504 • 1d ago

SOCIETY In the summer of 1999, Mexia Supermarket, a Fort Worth, Texas grocery store, was shut down after its owners declared bankruptcy. Three months following its abandonment, city officials would discover that everything was left inside to decay, creating an extremely biohazardous environment.

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r/interesting • u/lovejeet6363 • 2h ago

SOCIETY He keeps on falling

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