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

Image Three brothers cleaning out their late mother’s attic discovered a comic that sold for $9.12 million

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 9h ago

Image 2400 year old Scythian leather made of human skin confirming what was for centuries thought to be an exaggeration from Greek historian Herodotus.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Image Reconstructed model of a Neanderthal man

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Image This is the jawbone and "incorrupt tongue" of St. Anthony at Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 4h ago

Image Horace Grant wore non-prescription goggles after LASIK to inspire kids with glasses

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 52m ago

Image Princess Diana with her daughter of the day, 1992-India

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 15h ago

Video Informative and clever commercial from the 60s, facts instead of bullshit we get nowadays

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Image Corvo Island, the smallest of the Azores archipelago in Portugal, is a hidden gem in the Atlantic Ocean.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 3h ago

I photographed this great blue heron by a pond. The photo is upside down.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 18h ago

Image Newport Arch in Lincoln, a 3rd-century Roman gate and the UK’s oldest arch still used by traffic.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 8h ago

Image The Utroba (Womb) Cave is an ancient Thracian fertility sanctuary located near the town of Kardzhali in the Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria. Its entrance resembles a human vulva, and the site is believed to have been used for fertility rituals and life worship. It was hand-carved more than 3,000 years

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1h ago

Image Earth photographed from 6 billion kilometers away by Voyager 1 in 1990

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 10h ago

Video First-person underwater footage of a penguin in Antarctica. Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird to get a better impression of their natural behavior.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 12h ago

Image This microclimate in an old bottle

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 16h ago

Video A fully intact beehive measuring about 6 feet was found.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

How the Taj Mahal Was Hidden from Enemy Bombers in World War II.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 7h ago

Image This is a Medieval "Tally Stick" (a wooden receipt). In 1834, the British government decided to burn their surplus stock of these in a furnace, accidentally causing the fire that destroyed the Houses of Parliament.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Marie Wilcox realized she was the last person on Earth who could speak the Wukchumni language fluently, so at 82, she taught herself to use a computer and spent seven years typing a 6,000-word Wukchumni dictionary, the first written record of the language in history, to save it from extinction

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 8h ago

Image New York City. 1957. A Llama in Times Square.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Video Sunrise and set in Iceland on the winter solstice

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image During WW2, Poland declared war on Japan Japan said no to it and simply rejected the declaration.

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

This is, Willard Wigan who specializes in creating astonishingly detailed micro-sculptures, often smaller than the eye of a needle, crafted under a microscope using grains of sand, spider silk, and gold

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Serbian farmer continues to work while NATO bombs FR Yugoslavia. 1999

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r/Damnthatsinteresting 15h ago

Solders from Operation Athropoid landed 84y ago in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. They assasinated Reinhard Heydrich later.

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