After the death of her husband & with no breadwinner in the house, Mary Ann Bevan decided to enter a contest and won the offensive title of ugliest woman in the world & was hired by a circus. She endured the ridicule of of others in order to raise her children & give them a better life.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Dina Sanichar, the feral boy found after being raised by wolves and was the inspiration for The Jungle Book's character of Mowgli2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Marianne Bachmeier avenged her 7-year-old daughter’s rape-murder when she opened fire in a crowded courtroom trial, killing the murderer 19812yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Whats more shocking, the size of the tree or taking it down using a hand saw?2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
In July 1945, the USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine and then set upon by sharks in the worst shark attack in human history, lasting 5 days and killing nearly 600 men.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
n 1992, 24-year-old Chris McCandless' emaciated body was found by moose hunters after he left society to live in an abandoned bus in the wilds of Alaska. He lived on squirrels, mushrooms, and berries for 113 days before accidentally eating toxic potato seeds.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
In 2018, 26-year-old missionary John Chau tried to convert his killers after attempting contact with the world’s most isolated people in the Indian Ocean. The night before his death he wrote to his family, “I hope this isn’t my last note but if it is... Don’t retrieve my body.”2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
17-year-old Shaquille O’Neal with his high school basketball team in San Antonio, Texas, 19892yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
In 1984, Gary Plauche tracked down and killed his 12-year-old son's kidnapper, Jeff Doucet, on live television. After his son was recovered and Doucet taken into custody, Plauche waited incognito at the airport, pulled a gun & shot Doucet straight through the head while the cameras were rolling.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
After accidentally shooting himself in the chest at 12 years old, Lil Wayne was saved by a white police officer named Uncle Bob. “My life was saved by a white man. He was white as snow. Black cops were running right past me looking for drugs.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/MadeMeSmile
Alison Botha (left), was abducted, assaulted, stabbed 30 times, disemboweled, and her throat slit before being left for dead in 1994. She held her organs together, crawled to a nearby road, survived, and sent her attackers to prison.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
The Hasanlu lovers died around 800 B.C. and were discovered in 1972. They died in what seems to be an embrace or kiss, and remained that way for 2800 years.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Iron Mike Tyson immediately after biting off a part of Evander Holyfield's ear2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A soldier of the US civil war that survived a bullet between his eyes 18632yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The little box that this man, Manhattan Project physicist Harold Agnew is smiling and holding is the nuclear core of the primary bomb, “Fat Man,” that destroyed Nagasaki.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
David Hampton planted Larch trees in the hillside already full of Douglas Firs in 2006. Each fall the Larch trees display a smiley face2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Sometimes, just sometimes, when people say “forever,” they actually mean it.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/MadeMeSmile
Nannie “the Black Widow” Doss spent years ruthlessly wiping out members of her own family through arsenic poisoning including four husbands, two of her own kids, her mother, sister, mother-in-law, and two grandchildren. 19542yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Frank Lentini’s act as a sideshow performer drew in massive crowds who were absolutely boggled by his unbelievable anatomy. Lentini had three legs and four feet, 16 fingers, and two functional penises. And while his career was smashingly successful, he also got married twice and had four children.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Self proclaimed “Inventor” of the Marijuana Brownie, Mary Jane Rathbun began mixing marijuana into brownies back in the mid 1950s. In the early 1980s, Mary Jane was baking over 4,000 brownies a week to AIDS patients in California.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
In 1983, 23-year-old Tami Oldham Ashcraft survived 41 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean after her 44-foot yacht capsized in Hurricane Raymond. The Category 4 storm's 40-foot waves and 140-mph winds killed her fiance and nearly demolished her craft.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Oh my how times have changed - Gun safety being taught in an Indiana school, 1956.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
A picture of Dr. Religa monitoring his patient's vitals after completing a 23-hour-long heart transplant. His assistant is asleep in the corner. 1987. At the bottom is a picture of the same patient, 30 years later. He managed to outlive his doctor.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Serial killer Leonarda Cianciulli murdered women for human sacrifice and made them into soap and teacakes, convinced that it would protect her son from dying in battle in WWII2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Honey badgers eat porcupines and poisonous snakes, raid beehives for honey, kidnap baby cheetahs, and steal food from hungry lions.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Green Boots a climber that froze to death while Climbing Mt Everest in 1996 - and he is still there.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Serial killer Pedro Rodrigues has spent the majority of his life behind bars, where half of his 47 victims died mercilessly at his hands, only targeting rapists and murderers.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Microbiological culture of an 8-Year old’s handprint after playing outside.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
The first untethered space flight: Bruce McCandless as he floated untethered hundreds of feet from his space shuttle .2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
The Vasa ship capsized and sank in Stockholm in 1628. After over 330 years on the sea bed, the warship was salvaged and the Vasa Museum built around the only completely intact and best-preserved 17th-century ships in existence2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Hawaiian vocalist Israel Kamakawiwo’ole released the most iconic rendition of “Somewhere over the Rainbow” ever recorded, using only his voice and a ukulele. 19902yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Serial killer Leonarda Cianciulli murdered women for human sacrifice and made them into soap and teacakes, convinced that it would protect her son from dying in battle in WWII.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
John Edward Jones, the man who was trapped for more than 24 hours inside the Nutty Putty Cave before dying there. They could see his feet sticking out of the narrow passage where he was trapped, but eventually he was sealed inside.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Women trainees of the LAPD practice firing their newly issued revolvers, 1948.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Native American hero monument for Crazy Horse almost finished after 70 Years2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
A thin TV screen only 4 inches thick with an automatic timing device to record TV programs for later viewing as shown at the Home Furnishings Market in Chicago. 19612yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
This picture of cooled lava resembles bodies entering the pits of Hell2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Canadian attorney Garry Hoy showing a group of young students at his 24th-floor office that his window was unbreakable, it wasn't. 19932yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
In 2006, Navy Seal Mike Day was shot 27 times by terrorists. Shot everywhere on his body but his head, he continued to fight with his Sig 9MM pistol after the pistol grips and his thumb were shot off and still killed the three remaining bad guys - then he walked himself to the med-evac helicopter.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
The famous Michael Myers mask from the Halloween movies was just a Captain Kirk (William Shatner) mask that they cut the eye holes bigger, brushed out the hair, and painted white.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
A statue of Yasuke, an African slave, who arrived in Japan in 1579 and became the first black Samura2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/pics
Freddie Mercury and David Bowie behind the scenes at Live Aid 19852yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
John Lennon and his childhood hero Chuck Berry jamming together (w/ Yoko Ono, about to ruin it.)2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/pics
Smoking gentleman using an acoustic coupler to send an email with a payphone. Early 1980s.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
400-year-old bonsai tree that survived the bombing of Hiroshima2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Dog eating a shark while 2 snakes fight to the death in Australia2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
A statue of Yasuke, an African slave, who arrived in Japan in 1579 and became the first black Samurai2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Canadian attorney Garry Hoy showing a group of young students at his 24th-floor office that his window was unbreakable, it wasn't. 19932yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/DarwinAwards
67 year old Mary Reeser was found burnt to ashes after she spontaneously combusted. All that remained of her was one slippered foot, part of her spine, and a shrunken piece of skull. However, a stack of newspapers next to the body remained mysteriously untouched. 19512yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
These Dragon Balls contain 3,000 grams of pure cannabis oil.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
A long string of lovers abandoned Katherine Knight out of fear for their lives before she met John Price, who she stabbed 37 times with a butcher knife before skinning his corpse and hanging it on a meat hook.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Jon Brower Minnoch weighed 294 pounds at age 12 and by 25 weighed nearly 700 pounds. At his peak weight, Jon Brower Minnoch was the heaviest human ever recorded at 1,400 pounds. His wife was only 110lbs! 19782yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
You might know trashy women but they arent bling on the ankle monitor trashy2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/trashy
Staircase designed by Leonardo Da Vinci inside the Chateau de Chambord - Built in 15162yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
First crude gas masks worn by French troops in WW1, remind you of anything?2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/battlefield_one
3 foot long, tree-climbing Coconut Crabs found on Howland Island - near the 1937 crash site of Amelia Earhart.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
[1600x1165] A view as how far women's rights have come since the 1920's, when they would be arrested for wearing 1 piece bathing suit.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A bee lives less than 40 days, visits at least 1000 flowers and produces less than a teaspoon of honey. For us, it's just a teaspoon of honey - but for a bee it's a lifetime!2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
American P-38 fighter plane has emerged from the sand where it was buried, 65 years after it crash landed on a beach in Wales2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A couple with Down Syndrome who were told not to marry still proving critics wrong 25 years later!2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/aww
Cavalry at the Somme 1916. Imagine a map like this, with all those horses! Portal maybe?2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/battlefield_one
Bulgarian Soldier Giving His Best Battle Cry for the Camera 1916. CHARRRGE!!2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/battlefield_one
This is Pat Tillman in the 1990s. He willingly gave up a multimillion dollar contract with the NFL's Arizona Cardinals to join the military, before being killed in Afghanistan. HERO.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Last known photo of Ladder 118 crossing over the Brooklyn Bridge on their way to the World Trade Center. 2001 *Never Forget*2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The scene in The Shining that Stanley Kubrick had reshot 127 times to get it right (1978)2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
In 1961, Michael Rockefeller was cannibalized in Papua New Guinea while trying to buy local art for his museum, vanishing after his boat capsized offshore until the locals found, murdered, and ate him.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
A small herd of cows found their way into a newly built home and lived inside of it for about a month before being noticed2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/MadeMeSmile
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and coach John Wooden. Never forget who helped you.”2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/MadeMeSmile
The Gympie-Gympie stinging tree in Australia is of the most venomous plants in the world. The sting can cause months of horrific pain like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time, and causes extreme itching, huge hives, and has even driven people mad from pain.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
In 1969, when black Americans were still prevented from swimming alongside whites, Mr. Rogers decided to invite Officer Clemmons to join him and cool his feet in a pool, breaking a well-known color barrier.2yr ⋅ husker3in4 ⋅ r/MadeMeSmile
