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The Stinkbird Enigma

In South America, in the swamps of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, lives a very unusual bird. The hoatzin is a phea...
Written by Cynthia Wood • 17 Jul 2006 • Read/Listen →
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Damn Interesting: Reminder

If your fancy is tickled by the thought of writing for Damn Interesting, you've got a few hours yet to seize upon the...
Written by Alan Bellows • 15 Jul 2006 • Read →
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Tesla

Being born at precisely midnight on the night of 9 July/morning of 10 July 1856 during a fierce lightning storm prove...
Written by Jason Bellows • 09 Jul 2006 • Read →
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Damn Interesting: Join Us

As you may have noticed, we here at Damn Interesting are not producing content at the brisk pace we once enjoyed. The...
Written by Alan Bellows • 07 Jul 2006 • Read →
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Radio’s Revenge!

In 1993, the USAF, US Navy, and the University of Alaska embarked on a joint project called High Frequency Active Aur...
Written by Jason Bellows • 05 Jul 2006 • Read →
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The Lost Bomber

In the middle of the afternoon on January 31, 1956 a B-25 bomber crash-landed into the Monongahela river near Homeste...
Written by Daniel Lew • 03 Jul 2006 • Read →
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Not Your Average Summer Camp

In the summer of 1954, twenty-two fifth-grade boys were taken out to a campground at Robbers Cave State Park, Oklahom...
Written by Marisa Brook • 03 Jul 2006 • Read →
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Damn Interesting Problems

Due to a glitch of unknown origin which resulted in some data loss, there will be a slight delay before the next Damn...
Written by Alan Bellows • 30 Jun 2006 • Read →
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Extinction of the Passenger Pigeons

Passenger Pigeons (Ectopistes Migratorius) were once so numerous that by some estimates they outnumbered all the rest...
Written by Anthony Kendall • 28 Jun 2006 • Read →
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Bad Rye and the Salem Witches

In the late 1600s, the Puritan settlement of Salem in Massachusetts toppled into chaos when accusations of witchcraft...
Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Jun 2006 • Read →
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