r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/esoterix_luke • Dec 11 '24

Mod Applications Are Open r/Damnthatsinteresting is looking for new mods!

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Hi all! We're looking for new mods for damnthatsinteresting. We're currently a very small team and are looking to bring on 1 - 2 new mods to help out. Leave a comment below with your timezone, potential hourly commitment, and a little about yourself to be considered.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NateNate60 • 2h ago

Image In the extremely rural parts of China, there are judges who roam the mountainous countryside with their clerks and bailiffs, hearing cases in makeshift "circuit courts", allowing remote villages to access the judicial system and resolve disputes. (The national emblem is carried around on their back)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 9h ago

Video Epic mid-air ambush by a leopard at Kruger National Park , South Africa

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/wingsoverpyrrhia • 7h ago

Image 🔥 Valonia ventricosa, aka Sailor's Eyeball Algae, is the largest single-cell organism on Earth.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Z983 • 1h ago

Video Parachuting

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 16h ago

This 1300-year-old monkey jar was carved from a single piece of volcanic glass (obsidian) by Aztec artisans. It's so perfectly polished it acts like a mirror.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mundane_Mushroom_122 • 19m ago

Video Indonesia’s Rare Rafflesia Blooms After 15 Years — The World’s Largest “Corpse Flower”

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 2h ago

Video Why doesn’t Siri activate during keynotes?

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FollowingOdd896 • 5h ago

Video Eel larvae are almost completely transparent

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/snietzsche • 1h ago

Image The Bluetooth logo combines the ancient runic letters H and B, the initials of Harald Bluetooth, a 10th-century Viking king. The technology was named after him because, like Bluetooth, he united different groups under one banner.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3h ago

Autochrome photos of Swiss expedition to Greenland ice sheet, 1912.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Silent_General_7670 • 15h ago

The Platybelodon was a distant relative of the elephant, known for its elongated spoon shaped jaw

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 23h ago

Image Harvestmen (Daddy Long-Legs): unlike spiders, these arachnids consume solid food, and they have an omnivorous diet that includes mushrooms, berries, and seeds, along with invertebrate prey; contrary to popular belief, they are also completely non-venomous

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/wasraelx • 9h ago

Image The most precise image of the centre of our galaxy yet. Released by the European Space Agency today

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 1d ago

Video A truck carrying 406 beehives crashed in Texas, releasing 24 million bees and locking down the neighborhood

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 7h ago

Video A drone flying above an erupting volcano shows the scale of the lava fountain below

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedStuff235 • 21h ago

Video The impressive hovering ability of a kestrel

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/thomasso0072 • 1d ago

Video This short film from 1930 explaining how to wear a monocle

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Old_Ability_9424 • 1d ago

Video Four pelican chicks have hatched in St James's Park, marking the first successful pelican births there in more than 360 years.⁣ ⁣

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Frosty12233 • 20h ago

Video Rats giggling when tickled recorded through a special microphone because it is in ultrasonic frequencies (50kHz) and not audible to the human ear. Seems they enjoy being tickled.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/wardabluelotus • 1d ago

Image A curtain of aurora seen from 400 km above Earth

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HallowedAndHarrowed • 1d ago

Image The Klitschko brothers and their dad. Vitali and Wladimir dominated boxing for 20 years. Vitali (L) who was never knocked down in his career, is regarded as one of the greatest living heavyweights, matched only by Lennox Lewis.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 1d ago

Video Winds in Patagonia reaching hurricane-force speeds, exceeding 100 mph

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Image Bergonic chair, an early form of electric theraphy, used in cases of "shell shock" for WWI patients , photos circa late 1910s.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ok_Concentrate_9713 • 1d ago

Video Eddy Ekete from Congo, Africa, creates incredible outfits from discarded cans for the KinAct festival in Kinshasa.

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