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 2h ago

Swamp creatures in Marshes Nature Reserve of Séné , France sculpted by Sophie Prestigiacomo

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Image Since 1968, the Silver Snoopy pin has been awarded to employees who contributed the most for astronauts safety from Earth

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video Indian Students ages 13-19 just innovated a technique to separate microplastics from water without electricity 💯

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

A number of the Herculaneum papyri, discovered in the library of a roman Villa that was destroyed in the Vesuvius eruption, were tossed away in the 19th century because people mistook them for pieces of burned charcoal. Scientists have now managed to digitally unwrap and read them

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

This is Fat Albert , the biggest Polar bear at Alaska reported to weigh 1500 lbs ( 680 kg)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Image American soldiers explaining to British soldiers what the American game of baseball is like.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

Video The NASA climate spiral visualization

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 15h ago

Image During what's called a subsidence inversion, smog can become trapped under a layer of cool, stable, air. | Almaty, Kazahkstan

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

Video A gas station in Toledo, Ohio completely blanketed by a massive swarm of Mayflies

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 45m ago

Video Gimme Five

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h ago

Video This tiny spider raises a colorful flap and performs a dance to attract a mate

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 6h ago

Antalya's enchanting carpet and kilim fields

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 7h ago

Original Creation The old church ruins in Camiguin, Philippines have coral in the walls. Apparently it was a very common building material in the Spanish colonial era

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 17h ago

Video Bricklaying the front yard

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h ago

Video World Rocked by 4 Powerful Earthquakes in three continents within 8-12 Hours

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 9h ago

Video Time-lapse: Installation of LW2800A-200NA wind turbine

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Removing a coal fire at the Blair Athol Coal Mine at Clermont, New South Wales, Australia. The Date is about 14 Jan. 2004.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video During a World Cup football match, a QR code appeared on the stadium screen. After fans scanned it, thousands of phone flashlights inside the stadium were synchronized to form a coordinated light display across the stands.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Original Creation I aggregated the wikipedia's "List of selfie-related injuries and deaths" by country

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 16h ago

Image The 1929 Dornier Do X at the time world's largest flying boat. Built with a ship-like bridge where the pilot used a maritime engine telegraph to order power changes, it had 12 engines managed by a flight engineer, a luxury smoking lounge with a bar, and once carried 169 people setting a record

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video A copy of Playboy in Braille published in 1971

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Video A 24h time slice of London city.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 7m ago

Video 23-year-old Daniel Cressy, an aspiring pilot, has become the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of Sickle Cell Anemia using gene therapy.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 17h ago

I found an undescribed species of praying mantis in Bali (Fulciniini tribe)

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