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Damn Interesting, “Obscure true stories from science & history”, is a site on damninteresting.com, in English, funded by its readers through Patreon; no supporter count is published.

Damn Interesting, an English-language blog of obscure true stories on science and history by Alan Bellows, running since 2005.

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Latest posts

• A Possible Future2026-07-08
• Twenty2025-09-19
• There Once Was a Man Called Curley2025-09-06
• Omiword, a Word Game2025-07-21
• Much Ado About Adenoids2025-06-23
• A Trail Gone Cold2024-03-21
• Breaking a Bit2023-09-05
• Giving the Bird the Bird2023-08-07

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• patreon https://www.patreon.com/damninterestingweekverified 2026-09-04

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