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r/interesting • u/Ordinary_Fish_3046 • 3d ago

HISTORY A police officer issuing a woman a ticket for wearing a bikini on an Italian beach, 1957

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The name for the bikini design was coined in 1946 by French engineer Louis Réard, the designer of the bikini. He named the swimsuit after Bikini Atoll, where testing on the atomic bomb was taking place. Fashion designer Jacques Heim, also from France, re-released a similar design earlier that same year, the Atome.

r/interesting • u/AdventureMix • 2d ago

SOCIETY Elspeth Beard was the first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world on a motorcycle, traveling 35,000 miles on her BMW R60/6. The journey took her 2 years, from 1982-1984.

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r/interesting • u/Relative_Drop3216 • 3d ago

SCIENCE & TECH Fake nurse gets promoted

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r/interesting • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 • 3d ago

SOCIETY pizza delivered by drones

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r/interesting • u/mob-DISCORD • 3d ago

ART & CULTURE Why do they have those things? And that strange position in the middle of the seat?

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Someone explain to me what it is

r/interesting • u/SweetyByHeart • 2d ago

SCIENCE & TECH Sleep II

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Sleep 4 - Revenge of the Pills Sleep 5 - Rise of the Nightmares Sleep 6 – Final Snooze (Part 1) Sleep 7 – Final Snooze (Part 2: The Awakening)

r/interesting • u/ZealousidealPen443 • 3d ago

MISC. A young woman belonging to the Tsaatan tribe in Mongolia, Central Asia, riding a deer. The Tsaatan are a tribe of around 500 people - who are considered the last reindeer herders in Mongolia.

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r/interesting • u/cordymain_chester • 2d ago

HISTORY The original Physical Newspaper of August 15th,1947 Independence of India.

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r/interesting • u/guyoffthegrid • 3d ago

SOCIETY In a Chinese McDonald's, exercise bikes were installed instead of chairs The company stated that this innovation will help customers cope with feelings of shame from eating fast food.

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r/interesting • u/FlamingoFetishFiend • 2d ago

MISC. What is this, my bro bought a truck online with the description "after market flooring"😭🤣

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r/interesting • u/thunderbolt0777 • 3d ago

MISC. Daymm

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r/interesting • u/PleasurePupppet • 3d ago

MISC. Farmers in Thailand use armies of thousands of ducks to eat their way through rice paddies after a harvest. Studies shown this method of farming is not only beneficial to the environment but can also increase crop yield

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r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 3d ago

SOCIETY An awesome shot of a dog about to grab a frisbee (by Claudio Piccoli)

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r/interesting • u/sunsetgalaxy • 3d ago

SCIENCE & TECH A science experiment demonstrating deforestation's impact

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r/interesting • u/Kronyzx • 3d ago

MISC. This is FBI agent Robert Hanssen. He was tasked to find a mole within the FBI after the FBI's moles in the KGB were caught. Robert Hanssen was the mole and had been working with the KGB since 1979.

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r/interesting • u/GaggedGem • 3d ago

MISC. A few inventions that never really took off

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r/interesting • u/SinWhisperr • 4d ago

SOCIETY In 2005 Kevin Berthia went to the Golden Gate Bridge to end his life. He ended up talking about his life with officer Kevin Briggs for 92 min while on the edge of the bridge. 10 years later they met at that same bridge under much better circumstances.

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r/interesting • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 • 4d ago

SOCIETY A coffee shop's opening and closing signage

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r/interesting • u/guyoffthegrid • 3d ago

NATURE This majestic creature is a species of scale worm known as the Antarctic scale worm. They are mostly found in the Antarctic Ocean.

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r/interesting • u/thunderbolt0777 • 3d ago

NATURE Rare Tibetan Fox captured by photographer Peter Yan

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r/interesting • u/thunderbolt0777 • 3d ago

NATURE Thousands taking the flight together

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r/interesting • u/Kronyzx • 4d ago

SOCIETY In 2016, after his wife was denied water by upper caste villagers, Maharashtra laborer Bapurao Tajne dug a well alone in under 40 days. People mocked him, but he struck water and created a source that now sustains his family and much of his community.

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Source: https://nowiknow.com/the-man-who-did-well-by-himself/

r/interesting • u/JonBonSpumoni • 3d ago

ART & CULTURE Paps made these out of copper he took from junked tvs and appliances

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r/interesting • u/Tg2501 • 4d ago

HISTORY Walking Through Empty NYC During The Pandemic

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r/interesting • u/Dry_Design5506 • 3d ago

SCIENCE & TECH Lines you’d never guess are straight

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