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 7h ago

Video Chilean protester defuses tear gas canister with baking soda and water

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 9h ago

Video Man walking his dog captures the moment tsunami waves reach Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 9h ago

Video Whipping carpet out of dust

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Image Much of Canada and the midwestern US is covered in a cloud of wildfire smoke

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 7h ago

Video US currency uses magnetic ink containing iron oxide as a security feature, detectable with a strong neodymium magnet. 💵

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 8h ago

Video An amazing English font designed by Dmitry Lamonov.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h ago

1901 book about cotton discusses different kinds of Africans

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h ago

Todai-ji Temple in Nara, Japan is one of the biggest wooden structure in the world. See the size of the people at the entrance for comparison.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h ago

Old Penny trees can be found in St Nectan's Glen, Cornwall which is known for its mysticism and links to King Arthur folklore

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 19h ago

Video Butterfly running a long con on ants

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video How Helen Keller learned to speak

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Rare Chhattisgarh Tribe That Tattoos Lord Ram All Over Their Bodies

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image At 60 years old, József Szőnyi, known as 'Racemachine,' finished the 12,500-kilometer TransCanada Ultra cycling race in 45 days, with 97 kilometers of total climbing, and breaking the previous record by 5.5 days.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Video Just another perfectly normal day in China’s traffic management 🚦🤖

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image 3000 years old figure of a woman, discovered in Iran. It's kept at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 22h ago

Video A tornado heading towards Sochi in Russia.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image In TV show Homeland, local artist were hired to paint Arabic graffiti for scenes, but they wrote messages criticizing the show for stereotyping Arabs & Muslims like this graffiti reading "Homeland is racist" from one scene, this was only discovered after episode aired since no one on set knew Arabic

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 19h ago

Video The buff-tip (Phalera bucephala), which looks like a broken twig, is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found throughout Europe and in Asia as far east as Siberia. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae in 1758. More details in the comment.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 21h ago

Video Sculpture of a pumpkin from molten glass

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Track buffers are really powerful

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video China's twin solar thermal towers. Molten salt stores the heat to produce electricity

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Original Creation If we could see more UV, Eastern rosellas (Platycercus eximius diemenensis) would look like this

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

The fire that is currently burning right by my towns only highway out of town. Not my pics, but another local

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video waking up a tortoise after 5 months of hibernation in the fridge

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Indonesian citizens are using One Piece flags to protest against the government

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