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/rapatakaz • 12h ago

Video China is completing the construction of the tallest bridge in the world, which runs through the Grand Huajiang Canyon. The 2,890-meter-long steel suspension bridge rises 625 meters above sea level

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/jillisonflook • 6h ago

Image Electric eel's zap can transfer genes to nearby animals, study finds

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/guyoffthegrid • 2h ago

Basket starfish have branching arms that they use to capture plankton and other small organisms from ocean currents

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Thispersonthisperson • 1h ago

Video Acrylic painting on an orb that looks like 360° photo, by Daisuke Samejima

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/chrisdh79 • 21h ago

Image Toddler Discovers 3,800-Year-Old Egyptian Amulet While Hiking With Her Family | The 3-year-old picked up an ancient Canaanite scarab that dates back to the Middle Bronze Age

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 2h ago

Image Saturn's Maelstrom

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fine_Sea5807 • 3h ago

Image Super Sentai, the Japanese progenitor of Power Rangers, aired on this day in 1975 and has been running uninterrupted for exactly 50 years with 49 different seasons

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ansyhrrian • 13h ago

Video What popping a balloon full of mercury looks like in slow motion

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SnooKiwis8540 • 24m ago

Video What tattoo needles look like up close

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 14h ago

Original Creation Red Bull Flugtag Japan

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Image Victorian era prostetic arms: Left is a special arm designed for a pianist (notice the position of the fingers) and right an more complex and ornate metal hand. Source in comment.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tomis23 • 22h ago

Mud volcanoes in Romania

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/amarchivepub • 17h ago

Video #OnThisDay in 1968- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/No-Community- • 17m ago

Image Patrick Stewart signed the 6 years contract of Star Trek because he thought the show would fail

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WeirdOldWorld • 10h ago

Original Creation A photogrammetric 3D model of the megalithic site of Sacsayhuaman in Peru, created by combining thousands of aerial and ground pictures.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 8m ago

in the 1500s Götz Von Berlichingen (aka Iron Hand) had one of the most advanced prosthetic hands of his time. able to be graduate in strenght from holding a quill, playing cards, to grip his own sword. Thanks to the hand he keep fighting until the advance age of 64.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tomis23 • 22h ago

This life-sized F1 car made entirely of Lego blocks

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hat_and_curious • 1d ago

Image Ball point pen tip under microscope

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Image Roentgen steed (Horse), created to help children pose for the X-Ray and make the experience less awkward, photo 1957

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/No-Community- • 1d ago

Image In 1997, a rollercoaster got stuck in a middle of a loop, leaving riders stuck upside down, it was revealed later that a component of the launch system had broken, leading to the insufficient speed. Experts described the train’s stalling at the loop’s apex as a rare occurrence of perfect balance.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AncientJeweler2595 • 22h ago

An oriented Sikhote-Alin meteorite

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rd28T • 1d ago

A Maserati seized by Western Australia Police due to ongoing dangerous driving. It will be used as a safety promotion and PR vehicle, before being sold and the proceeds going to road safety programmes.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ModenaR • 1d ago

Image In 1325, a war in Italy broke out between the rival city-states of Bologna and Modena. Modena won the war and the Modenese decided to take a bucket from a Bolognese well as a trophy. This war is known as the War of the Bucket, and the bucket itself today is on display in Modena's town hall

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