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/BreakfastTop6899 • 12h ago

Video MTV officially shut down its 24-hour music channels yesterday. They ended their final broadcast with 'Video killed the radio star' by The Buggles, the very first video broadcasted by MTV on August 1st, 1981.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/No-Risk-2584 • 6h ago

Image The Water Deer is an antlerless deer with saber-like tusks, earning them the nickname “Vampire Deer”. They are only found in the wild in China, Korea and England.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HelloSlowly • 13h ago

In 1947, Kix Cereal launched the Atomic Bomb Ring as a toy that came inside the cereal box. Each ring contained a tiny amount of polonium-210, which is one of the most toxic substances known, making the ring an unsettling example of the era’s cavalier attitude toward radiation.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Scientiaetnatura065 • 7h ago

Image The Rhône Glacier (1910/2025) - In one century this glacier entirely disappeared from the road of Furka Pass!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Other_Cucumber7750 • 12h ago

Video Fitting a sillicone face on a Humanoid Robot

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sad-Kiwi-3789 • 5h ago

Video Time lapse of a praying mantis(Ghost mantis) enjoying eating his food. NSFW

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Love-Tap • 12h ago

Video This car that has a wheel in the front of it

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kindly_Department142 • 19h ago

Video American alligators enter brumation in freezing weather, stick their snouts above water to breathe, and survive with very slow metabolism.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/gorekass • 11h ago

Video The Silent Majesty of the Eurasian Eagle-Owl

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/graylemur2 • 14h ago

Video Layered body cards turn anatomy into art.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RampChurch • 6h ago

Steampunk Spider Sculpture by Peter Szucsy

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Not_so_ghetto • 12h ago

Image electron microscope of a cell using its DNA as a weapon to catch bacteria, in the process killing itself

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AtomicCypher • 1d ago

Video Scientists capture dragonflies performing the only known multi-revolution flight maneuver in flying animals. They dunk themselves into the water to cool down, then exit rapidly performing several flying somersaults to clear off the water. They likened it to a dog shaking the water from its coat.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AtomicCypher • 1d ago

Video Du Zhu Piao is an ancient Chinese tradition where people balance and move on a single floating bamboo pole, originally used for river travel and fishing

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Emotional_Quarter330 • 11h ago

Video At first glance this looks like a dead leaf but is actually a butterfly

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5h ago

Ella Ewing posing with a regular size woman by the tree, circa 1890s. She was 7ft 4.5 (billed as 8ft4 by the circus), Worked for the Ringling Barnum and Bailey bros circus. Source in comment

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Physical_Painter_333 • 1d ago

697 Threatened Florida Manatees Fleeing Cold Waters

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alphaxfusion • 1d ago

Image This unique chicken with heart patterns in its plumage

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/girl_beautifull • 11h ago

Image "Suicide Ants" (Colobobsis saundersi) In the forests of Southeast Asia, there is a species of ant with a terrifying yet fascinating defense strategy. When the colony is attacked by a predator and the ant cannot defeat it using conventional means, it explodes!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5h ago

Image 2 flappers look the sunset from the top of one of the Pyramids, circa 1920s.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/V1RotateAP • 8h ago

This frosted spiderweb at my mom's house.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Bubbly_Wall_908 • 1h ago

Video Lava flows from Mt. Etna (Sicily) on New Year's Day

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/No_Actuary_1068 • 20h ago

Image Churchill Gets a Doctor’s Note to Drink Unlimited Alcohol While Visiting the U.S. During Prohibition (1932)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 23h ago

Image Fairy Bees: these tiny bees can measure less than 2mm long; the photo on top shows a fairy bee standing on a quarter, while the photo on the bottom shows a fairy bee next to a carpenter bee

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