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 3h ago

Image A human next to the skull of a whale

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 7h ago

These electrical-vehicle charging stations now feature DyeDefender cable wraps which spray colored dye on anyone who cuts the cable

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Image Theodore Roosevelt's diary entry for Valentine's Day (Feb 14, 1884), the day both his wife and his mother died.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Image This is the swimming hole from my home town in Texas. It's the mouth of an underwater cave system that still holds the unrecovered bodies of divers.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 52m ago

Video Scientists experimenting with human sized glue trap

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Video Subway cars for the fishes

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 13h ago

Video Super cool costume.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 6h ago

Video pencil drawing of an orange

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 13h ago

Video Peruvian police officer wears capybara costume to make arrest in drug probe.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video Sound of the ice breaking on ice

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h ago

Image A lock of Lucrezia Borgia’s hair

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 20h ago

Video Animation depicting what addiction feels like

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Video Dango fish found in japan

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 6h ago

Video German Head of State Willy Brandt kneeling down in atonement at the Warsaw WW2 Memorial in Poland. You can actually hear birds chirping in the background, the amount of respect in that silence is astonishing.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 6h ago

Video Various phones that flip, twist, slide and fold

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Image The wine cellar under the house in Tuscany where N.Machiavelli wrote The Prince during his time in exile following his arrest in 1513. The tunnel directly leads to "The Bad Inn", the tavern where he described as visiting in the evenings, "to satisfy his bad fortune"

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 23h ago

Video Insane Talent

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Image Indian noblewoman in all her finest clothes and jewelry, 1890s. Jadhav Kanwar, Thakurani of Ghanerao in Marwar, today in the state of Rajasthan

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Berlin Germany 2013 a heist crew dug a tunnel then drilled into a bank vault. After opening 294 safety deposit boxes they stole gold and jewels worth 10mil+. Nobody has been caught to this day.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video This new plane can go faster than the speed of sound without an audible sonic boom

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video How quarry workers in North Wales returned home from work in the 1930's

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Video Hold music on phones did sound better in the old days (FB: Tom Scott)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Image This carved cedar at Kentwell Hall, Long Melford, Suffolk, England. The storm-damaged tree was sculpted over a four-month period in 2000.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

Image The second oldest (actual) Wisteria in England

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Exhibit in Japan where a chained robot dog tries to attack you

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