r/interesting • • 8h ago

Just Wow Spanish downhill skateboarder Diego Poncelet set a new world speed record for standing skateboarding, reaching a staggering 94.34mph down a closed section of a road in Canada.

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r/interesting • • 24m ago

NATURE amazonian rain forest’s “drumming ants”. The vibrations are an alarm, warning the rest of the colony and telling potential threats to back off.

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r/interesting • • 1d ago

SOCIETY Celebrity reactions to Lady Gaga’s meat dress at the 2010 VMAs

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r/interesting • • 16h ago

SOCIETY In 2021, Michael Packard was briefly trapped inside the mouth of a humpbacked whale before being spat out with only minor injuries.

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r/interesting • • 1d ago

HISTORY In 1955, Iranian doctors documented the days of a villager who developed rabies after a rabid wolf attack. The resulting film remains one of the few historical recordings of rabies progressing in a human patient.

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r/interesting • • 21h ago

Fear Factor Risky lion dance performance

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r/interesting • • 1d ago

Fear Factor Ppl in Pakistan are importing scrap cars from Japan, reassembling them, & putting them back on the road.

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At first I thought the video was reversed but I was wrong..


r/interesting • • 1d ago

Amazing Cows love music & it is the wildest thing to watch

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r/interesting • • 1d ago

Just Wow Psy's 'Gangnam Style' song was the first Youtube video to break 1 billion views.

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r/interesting • • 1d ago

SOCIETY He literally said, "Whoever the guest is, you are not welcome."

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r/interesting • • 2d ago

NATURE Goat realizing she slept through her herd leaving

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r/interesting • • 1d ago

Mysterious Well, it's just the two of us, so who else would it be? 😝😅🤣🤣🤣

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r/interesting • • 1d ago

MISC. Foul tip takes umps mask right off

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r/interesting • • 1d ago

Intriguing These rescued harbor seal pups are learning an important lesson: fish is food!

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r/interesting • • 1d ago

SOCIETY After experiencing personal food insecurity after a house fire Desiree LaMarr-Murphy decided to turn her backyard into a community resource hub that not only operates as a food bank but also gives away clothing, school books, and connects visitors with health care.

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r/interesting • • 2d ago

Fear Factor Woman kidnapped in Brazil spots police at gas station and makes a run for it

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r/interesting • • 1d ago

MISC. Colors and heat absorption

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r/interesting • • 1d ago

Just Wow A 16-Year-Old Boy in India Had a Tooth Growing in His Eye Socket. Doctors Say It's the First Case of Its Kind in the World.

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A 16-year-old boy in India has had a tooth removed from his left eye socket, between the eyelid and the eyebrow. He had noticed a painless swelling for about a month, but was only taken to hospital when two hard, whitish points began poking through. A scan revealed a fully formed canine tooth – an extremely unusual example of an ectopic tooth.

[Ectopic teeth](https://www.aaojournal.org/article/S0161-6420(25)00801-2/fulltext) are teeth that develop or erupt in the wrong place. Instead of following the usual path to the mouth, they end up somewhere else. They can be normal baby or adult teeth, or sometimes extra teeth known as supernumerary [teeth](https://theconversation.com/topics/teeth-2317).

Ectopic teeth are most often found in the maxillary sinus – the hollow space behind the cheekbone – but they have also been found in the nasal cavity, palate, chin, jaw joint and eye socket. A [review of 61 published cases](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10548160/) found that they can go unnoticed for years or cause pain, swelling, headaches or difficulty opening the mouth. A tooth growing inside the nose can lead to a blocked nose, discharge and nosebleeds.
So how does a tooth end up somewhere as strange as an eye socket?
The face develops from several groups of cells and tissues that move and join together in the womb. Tooth development depends on interactions between some of these tissues. If this process goes awry, a tooth can sometimes develop in an abnormal location – even away from the mouth.

Developmental problems are not the only possible explanation. A [review](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7920564/) of ectopic teeth in the upper jaw also lists injuries, dental treatment and growths such as cysts and tumours as possible causes.

Having several extra teeth can sometimes be a sign of an inherited condition. One example is [cleidocranial dysplasia](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/expert-qa/cleidocranial-dysplasia-ccd), a rare genetic disorder that affects the development of bones and teeth. Other [much rarer genetic conditions](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3188466/) have also been linked to extra teeth.
The Indian teenager had no history of trauma, and doctors could not determine why teeth had developed in his eye socket.
**How are ectopic teeth found and treated?**
Whether an ectopic tooth needs removing depends on where it is and whether it is causing problems. An isolated tooth with no symptoms can sometimes just be monitored, but it may need to be removed if it causes an infection, blocks a passage, damages nearby structures or is linked to a cyst.

Doctors use scans to pinpoint the tooth and see what lies close to it. A CT scan can show whether it sits near the eyes, nerves or blood vessels, which helps them decide whether to operate.
Surgery ranges from a simple extraction to a complex operation. For teeth in the nose or sinuses, surgeons can often use an endoscope – a thin tube with a camera and surgical instruments on the end – to remove them through the nostrils rather than making a larger cut.

A [review](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31277707/) identified 27 published cases in which ectopic teeth in the nose or sinuses were removed this way.
Before surgery, the most common symptoms were nasal obstruction, discharge, facial pain and nosebleeds. The review found that endoscopic removal worked in the reported cases, although the evidence comes from a handful of published cases rather than large clinical trials.
Removing an ectopic tooth does not mean another ordinary tooth will grow in its place. But people with one supernumerary tooth can sometimes have others, so doctors may use scans to look for them. A few reports describe another extra tooth developing in the same area after removal, although this appears to be extremely rare.

In the Indian teenager’s case, the scan found no other ectopic teeth. His tooth had simply ended up in a very unusual place.

[Source](https://theconversation.com/first-case-of-teeth-growing-out-of-an-eye-socket-what-you-need-to-know-about-ectopic-teeth-293247)


r/interesting • • 1d ago

Wholesome Latvian passport under Ultra-Violet light

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r/interesting • • 2d ago

SOCIETY she has actually donated $11.5 million in proceeds from her Hit Me Hard and Soft world tour to The Changemaker Program.

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r/interesting • • 2d ago

Amazing A mother cat shows her kittens that their dog friend isn't dangerous and helps the little ones make friends with him.

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r/interesting • • 2d ago

SOCIETY The reason why Danny Tejo stars in so many low-budget movies, some of which are student films where he often takes little to no money is because he wants to pay it forward by helping other filmmakers get their start and he just loves to work.

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r/interesting • • 1d ago

Intriguing skill gap between amateur and pro

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r/interesting • • 2d ago

Wholesome Ariana Grande’s yearbook photo from middle school

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r/interesting • • 2d ago

MISC. She grabbed a random street kitten to fight mouse in her house

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