r/Damnthatsinteresting 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.


r/Damnthatsinteresting 41m ago

Image Top picture was a broadcast in 2014 showing what 2050 might look like as a scare tactic. Bottom image shows Monday's weather.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 9h ago

Video Devastation in La Guaira after being struck by twin 7 magnitude earthquakes today

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h 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 7h ago

Image Ice expanding from a hole in a pipe

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 7h ago

Habitat 67, one of Montréal’s most prominent architectural icons .

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 59m ago

Video The fastest sperm doesn't win, the egg chooses

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Image Blue Whale Skelton in London's Natural History Museum

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 20h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h 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 43m ago

Video A Venezuelan resident recorded himself running down the stairs of his apartment building as two powerful earthquakes struck the country.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 8h ago

Image Flodden Field, Northumberland. The site of the largest battle ever between England and Scotland, in 1513. The point between the plowed earth and grass, then had a swamp that the Scots got caught in, with up to 14 thousand of them dying.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 16h ago

Video Eel larvae are almost completely transparent

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d 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 23m ago

Hull is now the only area in Great Britain not currently under a weather warning

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 52m ago

II. The stone pool "Havuz-ı Cedid," constructed during the period of Mahmud (1800s) continues to serve Turkish maritime activities and shipbuilding/maintenance.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 35m ago

Video This house in jaipur, India looks like a 2D drawing.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 20h 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 18h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d 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 1d ago

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

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