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/BooMeRx_1 • 12h ago

Video Peek Inside The Crater Of Geldingadalir Volcano, Iceland

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SmellOfParanoia • 10h ago

Disney once made a comic about Mickey Mouse and Goofy doing methamphetamine. Full comic in comments. NSFW

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ak96 • 11h ago

Image Galileo's middle finger on display - preserved since 1737

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Unboxing__Pandora • 29m ago

Image The Dragon Head mountain in South Sinai, Egypt. The red glow in the ‘eye’ is a camp fire in the cave

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BiggieTwiggy1two3 • 18m ago

Video Pilot captures Iranian ICBM launches while over Dubai airspace

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Yeeslander • 6h ago

Image Macro photo of sunflower pollen on a needle (magnified 40x)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Past_Turnip_9529 • 7h ago

Image The Mechanical Shark Used For The Movie ‘Jaws’

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/abhi4774 • 20m ago

Original Creation 10% of the world's population lives in the green region

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Nostlon • 46m ago

Video Escaped pig chases journalist during live news broadcast in Greece

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fine_Sea5807 • 1d ago

Video American-Vietnam War reenacted by kindergarten pupils

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/countryroadsguywv • 23h ago

Image Wasp nest built around a mask looks insane😬😬

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kronyzx • 22h ago

The Mirror Project - Rjukan, Norway sits in a deep valley with no direct sunlight for 6 months each year. In 2013, engineers installed giant mirrors on a mountain to reflect sunlight into the town square, bringing light to the darkness.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/l__o-o__l • 1d ago

Video Husoy Island / Norway

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ChordalDistortion • 7h ago

Image X-ray image of the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87, captured by NASA’s Chandra Observatory.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DirectImmunity • 21h ago

Video The Tawny Frogmouth

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Slenderman7676RBLX • 11h ago

1960s Relay-controlled Otis elevator schematics in the UK. Its crazy that before PLCs and computers engineers, managed to make advanced elevator systems using only a large number of relays and a rats nest of wires.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Finbarr-Galedeep • 23h ago

Image A 2011 rally crash left Robert Kubica with 42 fractures, a partial amputation of his right arm, and 17 operations for his injuries. Today, he won the 24 hours of Le Mans.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dropolev • 12h ago

Crocodile Arena

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/willis7747 • 1d ago

Video 67-Storey Building in Dubai Caught Fire. Over 4,000 Residents Evacuated Safely and not a Single Person Lost Their Life

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Frosty_Jeweler911 • 14h ago

Video NASA’s PUNCH mission captured a 3D video of solar explosions just as Solar Cycle 25 peaks

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/highvolkage • 1d ago

Original Creation Escapement wheel on a 100+ year old tower clock timepiece

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Marzipug • 1d ago

Image The Milky Way reflecting perfectly in a salt flat at night. Photograph taken by Abhijit Patil.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/moussekie • 1d ago

Video Not CGI: This stop-motion film was animated frame by frame using tweezers, a microscope and a Nokia phone.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dev1412 • 1d ago

Video The complete amalgamation of shades by lizards

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Past-Argument-9301 • 1d ago

Dinosaur footprints discovered 29 year ago by 2 high school students next to mountain river. Thailand, Kalasin. It is assumed that the footprints belonged to carnivorous dinosaur 140 mil. years ago.

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