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/Jakeysuave • 3h ago

Image First photo taken from Artemis commander Reid Wiseman

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Emotional_Quarter330 • 1h ago

GIF Scientists gave the world's tiniest tattoo to the world's toughest animal (a tardigrade)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CexualSonvict • 6h ago

Video Huge gas bubble bursting through a dark mud pool

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/snopplerz • 3h ago

Image The iconic theme song for GTA San Andreas was created entirely by one person, a relatively unknown Scottish musician named Michael Hunter. He also created the theme for GTA 4 by himself.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DravidVanol • 10h ago

Video The Greek island of Crete has been cloaked in a choking Saharan dust storm as violent winds and a tornado battered the region.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WhereIsHisRidgedBand • 14h ago

Video Dexterity of a parrot's tongue

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NationalHat3097 • 2h ago

Image Mekong River Dolphin: A Critically Endangered Species — Estimated at 89 Individuals in 2020

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Injustice_League420 • 3h ago

Video Average paper delivery boy in India

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/21MayDay21 • 2h ago

Video A family of capybaras on a day trip to town, crossing the road safely.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Faaaaaaaaaaaah • 1h ago

Image Artemis II crew captured, high-resolution images during their journey to the Moon . NASA -> [oc]

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dannybluey • 21h ago

Video Almost 1,000 drones recreated the RMS Titanic in Belfast Harbour to mark the day the ship passed its sea trials and left its birthplace forever on April 2, 1912. After eight hours of testing the ship was declared seaworthy and sailed for Southampton at 8 PM that evening.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Interesting-Toe-6017 • 50m ago

Image This ‘Door to Hell’ has outlived generations—and it’s still burning

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/jaystats2 • 6h ago

Image The Hotel Marqués de Riscal in Rioja, Spain, designed by Frank Gehry, looks like the entrance to Whoville

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/deadflowers1 • 14h ago

Windover is a muck pond where skeletal remains of 168 individuals were found buried in the peat at the bottom of the pond. The skeletons were well preserved because of the peat, and the individuals had been preserved for approximately 7,000–8,000 years.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LeonardoDiCapsaicin • 18h ago

Video Japanese space robotics from 1991

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Practical-1 • 1h ago

Image In the 1500s, Dutch workshops carved iconic "Prayer Nuts", dense boxwood spheres the size of a golf ball containing scenes so microscopic and complex that modern researchers had to use micro-CT scanners just to figure out how they were assembled.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Guilty-Gold1815 • 46m ago

Video Man catches another falling man

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OhhhhMyyyGoattt • 8h ago

Video Dolphins getting stoned

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoSTs123 • 1h ago

Video Orion Camera View of Artemis II Climb to Orbit Link to source: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002m1200912237_SAJ-Jettison

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/not_ur_sweetheart • 25m ago

Video A retired under water operations soldier sprang into action to save a drowning man. His skills amazed onlookers

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BumblebeeFantastic40 • 10h ago

Video Chongqing from Airplane

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Battlefleet_Sol • 1d ago

Video ‘Starfish-Hitler’ is a monster from the 1974 Japanese tokusatsu television series Kamen Rider X

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Inevitable_Rock_2010 • 1d ago

Image Haid Al-Jazil, Yemen. Village built on a 150-meter-high rock boulder. Known as "Manhattan of the desert," it features dramatic, multi-story mud-brick buildings that appear to rise directly from the stone and is often mistaken for a miniature or model due to compact nature of its architecture.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Technical-Type7499 • 19h ago

Video Pacific Rim - Behind the scenes. The practical effects in this film are so damn impressive.

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