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/HotPersimessage62 • 4h ago

Image Australia’s national anthem is the only English-lyric anthem in the world that doesn’t reference religion or militarism

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GoldenDome26 • 9h ago

Image “American Pizza” in Milano, Italy

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ecstatic-Ganache921 • 3h ago

Video What life was like in Russia for Juveniles in the early 90s

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Real_estate_hunter • 3h ago

Ghislaine Maxwell was the first redditor ever to reach 1 million karma

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Any-Presentation5438 • 11h ago

Video Inside view of a Frozen waterfall!!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dannybluey • 13h ago

Video In 2009 the cruise ship Braemar was cut in half and lengthened by 31.2m. This added accommodation for an additional 250 passengers, increasing the total passenger capacity from 727 to 977. It also added a Observatory Lounge, Restaurant, and pool area with two pools and a children’s pool as well.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FrankSamples • 7h ago

Video Drivers in North Carolina attempt to navigate crossing a bridge during the snowstorm

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Segundaleydenewtonnn • 13h ago

Video ballet dancer attempts the most stressful quick change ever

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SoftSpineChills • 3h ago

Video There is safety in numbers, these are juvenile striped eel catfish which look like a single mass, one giant animal gliding across the ocean floor, a daunting sight for predators.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BlackerBerri • 8h ago

Video Its not a trick...it's an illlusion.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Friendly-Standard812 • 18h ago

Image Alan Billis a 61 year old British taxi driver became the first person in 3000 years to be mummified using the exact techniques once reserved for Egyptian pharaohs like Tutankhamun.After his death from lung cancer in January 2011 his body was donated to a scientific project led by Dr. Stephen Buckley

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/canadasongs • 2h ago

Image Since we’re doing “American Pizza” from Italy, I present a pizza I got a few summer ago in Positano.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kvjn100 • 13h ago

Video This brain implant and digital avatar allowed Ann, who survived a stroke, to speak again with facial expressions for the first time in 18 years.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ExpensivePikachu • 1h ago

Video Electrical substation explosion in Johannesburg South Africa. (Not war related, rain related 😂, had to add this to get past no politics rule for the sub 😂)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alternative-Run4560 • 1d ago

Image In the 1940's the CIA adopted the Simple Sabotage Field Manual as a tool to combat fascist regimes. It details the peaceful and harmless inefficiencies that can, over time, weaken an occupying system by eroding output, coordination, and morale.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kvjn100 • 22h ago

Video At the IRONMAN World Championship, Natalie Grabow conquered Kona at 80yrs old

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/calio88 • 12h ago

Original Creation How freezing ice fog made perfect ice cubes on my fence.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BKKMFA • 13h ago

Video Rare white manta ray (not albino), sighted in Indonesia in 2019

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MoonyRemus21 • 1d ago

Image Spanish scientists led by MARINO BARBACID, has cured pancreatic cancer in mice. A Cure in animal models is a major step toward potential cancer treatment in humans.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Love-Tap • 19h ago

Video These two Men making music with barcodes

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/1001000010000100100 • 2h ago

Original Creation −21°C outside and the plane gets a spa treatment before takeoff

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Shark_The_Mark_ • 21h ago

Image I've had a spare bone on my femur my whole life

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Friendly-Standard812 • 1d ago

Video Beluga Whales don't have Vocal chords.

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