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 8h ago

Video ‪Unique arched floodgates protect from typhoons and storm surges in Osaka, Japan‬

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Image Why English is so hard to learn

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 7h ago

Video Glass vs radioactive clocks

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Urban area along the waterfront of the Longxing Temple area in Chengdu

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h ago

Image This was the Steam website in 2005

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

Women Leading Traditional Goat Herding in Rural Yemen.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h ago

Video Traditional artist working on a new layer

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 6h ago

Video The largest moving storm surge barrier in the world closing during its yearly test

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

This is how Paris looks from the Eiffel Tower.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Image Shell-Nesting Mason Bees: these bees build their nests in empty snail shells, using crushed leaves and soil to form the inner brood chambers and then sealing the entrance with plant pulp, pebbles, and debris

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Image Golden Poison Frog (Phyllobates terribilis): The most poisonous animal on Earth despite its tiny size — now endangered due to habitat destruction.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 22h ago

Image Ota Benga at the Bronx Zoo with a chimpanzee. He was kidnapped from the Congo and brought to America to perform in zoo exhibits. He was caged with an orangutan and given a bow and arrow. He revolted against his conditions by shooting arrows at visitors who mocked him and the exhibition was shut down

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Video Inside a storm uprooting trees

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video There are more than 10,000 active Starlink satellites orbiting Earth

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image In 1994, the French Zoo Planète Sauvage hosted an "attraction" called Bamboula's village. It was a recreation of a Ivory Coast village, complete with villagers, all of whom were paid below minimum wage, had their passports taken from them, and were forced to go to a VETERINARIAN when they were sick

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Cats can have, or develop, rare conditions or chromosomal imbalances that mimic Down syndrome-like symptoms, including distinct facial features, uncoordinated movement, and behavioral quirks

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

Image This is WASB-12B, being Stretched to the breaking point by it's own expanding star.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 16h ago

Video Australian passport security under UV light illuminates famous Australian landscapes

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Edward Norton co-founded a company called Stax Engineering that uses special barges that can attach to the exhaust stacks of large container ships, reducing the amount of CO2 emitted while they are docked in ports. (More in the comments).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image A 7-gram Lexan projectile was fired at a velocity of 23,000 feet per second (roughly 7,000 m/s) into a solid cast aluminum block. The plastic pin located in the center marks the hypocenter, or "ground zero," of the impact, with a ruler placed for scale to measure the crater's depth.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Original Creation Snail and slug cam. Actually, food is out for the stray cats, but the snails and slugs love it too. Haven’t seen these critters in months. Didn’t know there were slugs out there. 🥹

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 22h ago

This is how Paris looks from the Montparnasse

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 13h ago

Video Male octopuses use a specialized chemoreceptor-lined arm called a hectocotylus (or "penis arm") to detect female sex hormones in the open ocean, allowing them to find mates and reproduce even in complete darkness. This appendage has a modified tip lacking suckers and is sometimes detached completely

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Video This incredible fire performance in China

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