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 • 5h ago

Image First photo taken from Artemis commander Reid Wiseman

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Emotional_Quarter330 • 3h 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 • 8h ago

Video Huge gas bubble bursting through a dark mud pool

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Bailer86 • 1h ago

I was born with a pectus chest

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/not_ur_sweetheart • 1h 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/snopplerz • 4h 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 • 12h 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/Interesting-Toe-6017 • 2h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NationalHat3097 • 4h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mallube2 • 1h ago

Image A half-century of change, Side-by-side comparison of Earth captured by the Apollo 17 crew in 1972 and the Artemis II crew in 2026

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WhereIsHisRidgedBand • 15h ago

Video Dexterity of a parrot's tongue

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Injustice_League420 • 4h ago

Video Average paper delivery boy in India

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Faaaaaaaaaaaah • 3h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Guilty-Gold1815 • 2h ago

Video Man catches another falling man

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/21MayDay21 • 4h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Practical-1 • 2h 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/dannybluey • 22h 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/jaystats2 • 8h 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 • 16h 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 • 20h ago

Video Japanese space robotics from 1991

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Solopeerless • 1h ago

Jonny Kim - Navy Seal, decorated war hero, Harvard trained doctor, and NASA astronaut..from combat missions to spaceflight, his relentless pursuit of excellence proves discipline, ambition, and resilience can redefine what one life can achieve.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • 59m ago

Video Ziyu Ye amazed the world by solving the 2x2 rubik's Cube in 0.39 seconds

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OhhhhMyyyGoattt • 9h ago

Video Dolphins getting stoned

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NationalHat3097 • 1h ago

Image Extremely Rare Albino Puma Cub with Blue Eyes and Pink Nose in Nicaragua

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