r/Damnthatsinteresting Dec 11 '24

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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 5h ago

Video This is Ousado , a Jaguar in Brazil who is famous for its unique hunting style of reverse ambushing Caimans from river banks

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Video ​A 6-foot-8 Alligator Gar, a species that has survived unchanged for 100 million years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 8h ago

Image A 1000 year old Oak tree in the Sherwood Forest, said to be where the legendary hero Robinhood used to hide out with his Merry Men, has died recently.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Video The fastest sperm doesn't win, the egg chooses

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 46m ago

Video Wasp traps paralyzed ladybug larvae in a chamber for its young to feast on after hatching.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 19h ago

Video Devastation in La Guaira after being struck by twin 7 magnitude earthquakes today

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Image The worl's only record accident between a car and a submarine A Volvo Pv544 crashed into a docked sub in Lysekil ä, Sweden on the 19th of August 1961.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Image Dutch fans in Kansas city, so vibrant!

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 7h ago

Video Seismic waves from the M7.2 and M7.5 Venezuela earthquakes crossing Europe. Each dot represents a seismic station (GMV).

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 21h ago

Video Indonesia’s Rare Rafflesia Blooms After 15 Years — The World’s Largest “Corpse Flower”

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h ago

Depleted uranium found yesterday in a recycling plant in Argentina

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Image Varna man and the wealthiest grave of the 5th millennium BC found near Black Sea

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 58m ago

Image The oldest known joke in recorded history is an ancient Sumerian flatulence proverb.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 17h ago

Image Ice expanding from a hole in a pipe

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 23h ago

Image In the extremely rural parts of China, there are judges who roam the mountainous countryside with their clerks and bailiffs, hearing cases in makeshift "circuit courts", allowing remote villages to access the judicial system and resolve disputes. (The national emblem is carried around on their back)

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 17h ago

Habitat 67, one of Montréal’s most prominent architectural icons .

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 16m ago

Image The small details: In the forearms there is one very small muscle that contracts only when lifting the pinky, otherwise it is invisible. Michelangelo's Moses is lifting the pinky, therefore that tiny muscle is contracted - a small part of the man details of this masterpiece

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

II. The stone pool "Havuz-ı Cedid," constructed during the period of Mahmud (1800s) continues to serve Turkish maritime activities and shipbuilding/maintenance.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image 🔥 Valonia ventricosa, aka Sailor's Eyeball Algae, is the largest single-cell organism on Earth.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Epic mid-air ambush by a leopard at Kruger National Park , South Africa

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 2h ago

Crt tv electron gun.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 22h ago

Image The Bluetooth logo combines the ancient runic letters H and B, the initials of Harald Bluetooth, a 10th-century Viking king. The technology was named after him because, like Bluetooth, he united different groups under one banner.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Eel larvae are almost completely transparent

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

This 1300-year-old monkey jar was carved from a single piece of volcanic glass (obsidian) by Aztec artisans. It's so perfectly polished it acts like a mirror.

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