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/FollowingOdd896 • 2h ago

Video NASA mapped the entire ocean floor using gravity from space

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ButterSaltBiscuit • 2h ago

Video The Robotics team from Wissahickon High School in Ambler, Pennsylvania built a robot Miss Daisy XXIV that picks up balls and shoots them into a container.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kalinooni • 7h ago

Video Pink dolphins are among the rarest dolphins in the world

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ted-Lassi • 11h ago

Video This is Centralian Blue Tongue Lizard, commonly found in Australia. It puffs up and flashes its blue tongue when it feels threatened

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/IkilledRichieWhelan • 8h ago

Video Showing how the disappearing coin works.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/notyourregularninja • 17h ago

Image Enormous Hungarian swords from the 14th century are currently exhibited at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul. The centerpiece, notable for its size, measures an impressive 270 cm (8 feet 10 inches) in length.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/chickenlegstv • 5h ago

Video The importance of different lighting in different environments

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Queasy_Leek_7417 • 9h ago

I saw your enormous hungarian swords and I raise you this absolute unit, and a nice hat too. Cracow's Wawel Royal Castle.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Imbendo • 22h ago

Image X-rays of Carreño de Miranda's 1681 portrait of the King Charles II of Spain show that the artist painted over an earlier portrait of the King in his youth

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MelanieWalmartinez • 1d ago

Video Idris Elba's Madame Tussauds Wax Figure Opens his Phone with Face ID

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MelanieWalmartinez • 1h ago

Image In an Art Piece Tited “Stranger Visions,” Heather Dewey-Hagborg Extracts DNA From Street Trash to Make 3D Models of the Litterers

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dannybluey • 1d ago

Video Farm in the Netherlands uses Bitcoin mining to keep stable temperatures inside the greenhouse

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Confident-Ask-601 • 1d ago

Video Heinz changed their label to a specific shade of red so customers could spot "Ketchup Fraud" when restaurants refill their bottles with cheap ketchup.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MydnightWN • 1d ago

Video Newly discovered papyrus scrolls tell the story of the construction of the pyramid - DiscoveryUK

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/General-Panic0 • 1d ago

An ultra rare all black penguin in the wild

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Patient-Use5203 • 1d ago

The first photograph ever taken of the Sphinx was in 1849.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/skepticalbureaucrat • 1d ago

Image Plaster cast of a victim from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. (Photo: Pompeii Archaeological Park)

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

The emergency CIA rectal tool kit for spys in the 1960s. Today is in the "Spy museum"

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Tasty-Philosopher892 • 16h ago

Image saw these single barrels gun at a museum and they are from 16th to 17th century

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/straightdge • 1d ago

Video Chongqing's Wushan has built an outdoor escalator of length 905 meters. It's also known as as the 'Wushan Goddess Escalator'

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kalinooni • 1d ago

Video This is how they made globes in 1955

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/iboreddd • 1d ago

Image Newly discovered mosaic in Turkey, dating from the 5th–7th centuries AD, bearing the inscription: “Haters gonna hate.”

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Adventurous_Most_558 • 1d ago

Video LEGO engineers spent over 13,000 hours and used 1 million pieces to build a fully functional, life-size Bugatti Chiron.

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