Damn Interesting

Dead Reckoning 10.09.2019 1:13:12 ↓

The 18th century misadventures of HMS Wager and her reluctant crew

The Eponymous Mr. Ponzi 02.09.2019 42:07 ↓

The little known story of an age-old scam

The Most Modern Of Modern Sports 14.04.2019 35:28 ↓

The secret runaway success of Kenneth Gandar-Dower’s racing cheetahs.

A Debaculous Fiasco 04.11.2018 30:19 ↓

The most expensive, bizarre, and obscure work ever created by Dr. Seuss.

Drawing The Shorter Straw 29.07.2018 40:16 ↓

Working almost single-handedly, visionary Argentine filmmaker Quirino Cristiani created full-length animated films between 1917 and 1931. He has since been all but forgotten.

The Curse Of Konzo 01.05.2018 25:11 ↓

In 1981, an international group of doctors identified the devastating disease behind a perplexing outbreak of paralysis in northern Mozambique.

A Jarring Revelation 29.03.2018 13:58 ↓

Amanda Theodosia Jones was a 19th-century poet, entrepreneur, and inventor who found inspiration in some unlikely places.

Death By Derivatives 20.11.2017 14:55 ↓

The opening of a canal in 1848 led to the birth of modern financial derivatives, and the early demise of some of the men who traded them

Ghoulish Acts & Dastardly Deeds 29.07.2017 54:12 ↓

In the 1950s, an anonymous terrorist planted a pipe bomb in a New York City public space. Then another. And another.

No Country For Ye Olde Men 17.07.2017 12:49 ↓

Britain’s practice of transporting convicts to American colonies was a fearsome punishment, but not for the chronic criminal James Dalton.

Fire And Dice 12.06.2017 23:09 ↓

The story of a tragic hotel fire of Rube Goldberg proportions.

The Reconstruction of Ulysses S. Grant 11.04.2017 25:07 ↓

As a civilian, the beloved American Civil War general and two-term president failed at every attempt to make money. Except for one.

The Greatest Baroque Composer Never Known 06.03.2017 19:40 ↓

A 300-year-old hunt for the unsung hero of Salzburg.

Foreign Exchanges 28.12.2016 30:26 ↓

He made a name for himself organizing the world’s most important economic conference, only to have it tarnished by an outrageous accusation.

Starving For Answers 30.11.2016 14:44 ↓

During WWII, 36 American conscientious objectors volunteered as subjects in a brutal science experiment to measure the body's response to starvation.

Ten Minutes In Lituya Bay 26.09.2016 24:52 ↓

A remote bay in Alaska is home to an odd and occasionally catastrophic geology. In 1958, a handful of people experienced this firsthand.

The King's Letters 06.08.2016 19:40 ↓

The 15th-century scholar who upset the Korean aristocracy by creating a native script for the Korean language, and thus wean it off Chinese characters.

Mobilis In Mobili 13.06.2016 23:52 ↓

A 1930s effort to reach the Earth's northernmost point via antiquated submarine.

Into The Bewilderness 11.05.2016 17:34 ↓

Charles Waterton was a pioneer of conservation. He was also extremely nutty, in ways that suggest he may have over-identified with his animal subjects.

Colonels Of Truth 13.03.2016 54:10 ↓

The tumultuous true story of the life of a fast food icon.

89, 263, 201, 500, 337, 480 14.12.2015 15:36 ↓

The story of the Beale Ciphers; a set of three encrypted notes from the nineteenth century purportedly describing the location of hidden treasure. Only one has been deciphered.

The Japanese Art of Self Preservation 28.11.2015 11:01 ↓

On the ancient Japanese Buddhist practice of self-mummification.

Faxes From The Far Side 21.10.2015 20:03 ↓

Faxes From The Far Side by Damn Interesting

The Petticoat Rebellion Of 1916 10.10.2015 10:51 ↓

When women in a poorly administered Oregon town hacked an election in order to repair the town's problems.

The First Ten Years 23.09.2015 26:14 ↓

A happy-tenth-birthday-to-us retrospective.