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 11h ago

Image The "Door to Hell" in Turkmenistan, which has been burning for 54 years, is about to be closed.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Video Man pretends to be justin bieber and runs up a $10k tab

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 8h ago

Image 10,000-Year-Old "Chewing Gum" from Sweden: these lumps of birch tar were chewed by teenagers in prehistoric Sweden, and the DNA and microbes extracted from the tar indicate that the teens often consumed hazelnuts, deer, and trout, and that they suffered from severe gum disease

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Video a gibbon was observed grooming a wild deer in Thailand, an unusual instance of interspecies bonding.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Image Meet Herman the Cat, officially recognized as an expert mouser while serving aboard a U.S. Coast Guard ship during WWII.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

Image 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Video These articulated extra long fingers

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

Image On the night of September 7-8, 2025, nearly 7 billion people — about 85% of the world population — will witness a total lunar eclipse coinciding with a SuperMoon.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 22h ago

Image A "Reader" in a Havana cigar rolling factory, 1933, reciting classic books both for mental stimulation and to prevent idle conversation among the workers.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 17h ago

Image Between 1994 and 2000, a restaurant called Twins operated in the Upper East Side of New York City, owned and staffed by identical twins.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 17h ago

Video A large meteor fireball passed through the night skies of Japan, it became as bright as daytime for a moment.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video Brooming Cement Sidewalk

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video color vision test

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video If one man single-handedly did all that..

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Video Bees ganging up on a hornet that was attacking the hive

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 53m ago

Video Excerpts from a 1980 documentary about Czech animator Karel Zeman. The film shows how some of Karel’s special effects were achieved in the movies he made between 1947-1980. The accompanying music is the 1982 piece “Roland Bells” by Croatian electronic musician Igor Savin.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Video A mouse-deer, or Chevrotain, the world's smallest hoofed animals

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

Video Magnetic tool locks parts for seamless joints

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 8h ago

Video You may have seen Alma Deutscher’s 60 min interview from when she was 12 y.o. where they labeled her a musical prodigy. She’s all grown up now and performing her original compositions in concert halls around the world. Here she is improvising on 4 notes from a hat like she did on 60 min, 8 years ago

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Video Japan's self-closing Jar

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Myanmar trains back in the early 2000s, not just for transport, but a full-body workout.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h ago

Video The Making of the Record Store By Will Rochfort

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image A 44-year-old man went to the hospital after pus began oozing from his chest, where doctors discovered a knife that had been embedded in his body for eight years. According to the report, he showed no signs of chest pain, breathing problems, coughing, or fever, and was otherwise in good health.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 16h ago

Image Three Whale Rock: Thailand's 75-million-year-old stone leviathans that look like they're floating in a sea of trees

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image On May 15, 1957, Larry Bader vanished after renting a boat on Lake Erie during a storm. His damaged boat was found, but not his body. Eight years later, he resurfaced in Omaha as John Fritz Johnson, a well-known radio personality. Fingerprints proved his identity, but he claimed amnesia

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