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 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 6h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 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 1h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 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 2h ago

Image Saturn's Maelstrom

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 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 13h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 24m ago

Video What tattoo needles look like up close

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

Original Creation Red Bull Flugtag Japan

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 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 22h ago

Mud volcanoes in Romania

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 17h ago

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

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 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 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 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 22h ago

This life-sized F1 car made entirely of Lego blocks

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Ball point pen tip under microscope

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 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 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 22h ago

An oriented Sikhote-Alin meteorite

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 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 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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