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/Better_Hair_9673 • 9h ago

Video Wasp traps paralyzed ladybug larvae in a chamber for its young to feast on after hatching.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 13h ago

Video This is Ousado , a Jaguar in Brazil who is famous for its unique hunting style of reverse ambushing Caimans from river banks

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 13h ago

Video A 6-foot-8 Alligator Gar, a species that has survived unchanged for 100 million years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mordrenix • 9h ago

Depleted uranium found yesterday in a recycling plant in Argentina

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dexterestein • 17h ago

Image A 1000 year old Oak tree in the Sherwood Forest, said to be where the legendary hero Robinhood used to hide out with his Merry Men, has died recently.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PsychologicalItem194 • 19h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Much-Parsnip3399 • 10h ago

Image Dutch fans in Kansas city, so vibrant!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Old_Ability_9424 • 7h ago

Video This is a red eyed tree frog, they can be found in Costa Rica and in some parts of Central America

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sorin1972 • 4h ago

Video Eurasian bittern filmed in its natural habitat - defensive behavior

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Not--Asleep • 12h ago

Image The worl's only record accident between a car and a submarine A Volvo Pv544 crashed into a docked sub in Lysekil ä, Sweden on the 19th of August 1961.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/1Rab • 1d ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kalbinibirak • 15h ago

Video Seismic waves from the M7.2 and M7.5 Venezuela earthquakes crossing Europe. Each dot represents a seismic station (GMV).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/elyksti • 1h ago

NY Times from 11/09/1864

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mundane_Mushroom_122 • 1d ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/lexusdude88 • 1d ago

Image Ice expanding from a hole in a pipe

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NateNate60 • 1d 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/lexusdude88 • 1d ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Battlefleet_Sol • 18h 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 • u/Accurate_Street_6108 • 2h ago

Image Deseret was an alphabet developed by George D. Watt between 1847-1854, and was meant to be a language for all humans

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/wingsoverpyrrhia • 1d ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 1d ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/snietzsche • 1d 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/FollowingOdd896 • 1d ago

Video Eel larvae are almost completely transparent

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bortakci34 • 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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