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Rules

R1: Only "Damnthatsinteresting" content

This subreddit is for things that are interesting and cool. Content that is only cute, funny, a meme, or 'mildly interesting' will be removed.

Posts should be able to elicit a reaction of "Damnthatsinteresting". Posts not deemed DTI may be removed at mod discretion.

R2: Use descriptive titles

If you title your post anything like "You won't believe ____!" or "27 things to do before you die!" it will be removed. Titles must be descriptive of the content, or they will be removed.

R3: No racism, bigotry, or hate speech

Racism, hate speech, bigotry, and incivility will be removed and the poster will be banned. Other variations of rude or unkind comments will also be removed.

R4: No screenshots/memes/infographics

Content must be interesting on its own. Posts that are not direct links to images/videos may be removed.

R5: Moderator discretion- no politics or promotions

Posts are at the discretion of the moderators. If we do not believe it to be interesting, is inappropriate, political, or is spam, we will remove it. Spam includes, but is not limited to, self-promo, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and more.

R6: No reposts

Posts that the moderators deem to be common reposts will be removed.

R7: Posts making claims must be sourced in comments at time of posting

Image with text posts/claims in the title must have a linked and credible source that backs up the information. Use the word "source" in your comment.

If the title is the only thing that makes your post interesting, you must also source it. OP is responsible for this and it must be done at time of posting.


Moderators reserve the right to moderate at their own discretion and remove any post they deem unfitting for the subreddit.

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/r/Damnthatsinteresting

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The first ever photo of a cat taken

0 Comments
2024/12/01
20:47 UTC

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Moss-and-Lichen Katydid (Genus Anaphidna): these katydids have cryptic features that allow them to blend in with the mossy, lichen-covered terrain of the rainforests in which they live, and their long, slender wings are typically held at a 45-degree angle in order to mimic the shape of a twig

4 Comments
2024/12/01
20:20 UTC

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Matt Damon tells a story about Jack Nicholson's marsh execution scene in The Departed

5 Comments
2024/12/01
20:08 UTC

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Sharks have existed for around 450 million years, far earlier than trees, which appeared about 385 million years ago. This makes sharks one of Earth’s oldest living creatures, predating the rise of plant life on land by millions of years.

183 Comments
2024/12/01
19:15 UTC

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Creative bread packaging.

35 Comments
2024/12/01
18:56 UTC

3,765

This beaver was orphaned and rescued as a newborn. It has an incredible instinct to build a dam, even though it has never seen its parents build one

129 Comments
2024/12/01
18:26 UTC

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Postcard picturing hikers on Prisojnik mountain, Slovenia, sent 1929.

2 Comments
2024/12/01
17:09 UTC

1,085

Lake effect in Buffalo

19 Comments
2024/12/01
16:34 UTC

3,322

Grasshopper infected and consumed by cordyceps.

168 Comments
2024/12/01
16:07 UTC

2,981

Bikini Bottom, the setting of Spongebob Squarepants, is a real place. The island during the opening of the show is Bikini Atoll which was used to extensively test two nuclear weapons during 1946. The radioactive fallout was so bad that food grown in the atoll's islands soil were contaminated.

69 Comments
2024/12/01
10:06 UTC

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The confluence of two rivers in Geneva, Switzerland—the bluish-turquoise Rhône and the murky gray-brown Arve—creates a striking natural color effect. 🌊

8 Comments
2024/12/01
09:20 UTC

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Rat learned to drive and Navigates through an obstacle course

183 Comments
2024/12/01
08:21 UTC

47,533

13-year-old Barbara Kent (center) and her fellow campers play in a river near Ruidoso, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, just hours after the Atomic Bomb detonation 40 miles away [Trinity nuclear test]. Barbara was the only person in the photo that lived to see 30 years old.

1594 Comments
2024/12/01
08:19 UTC

8,681

Purchasing power of 12.50 dollars in 1947. From Life magazine to show, how much the prices had increased since the depression.

461 Comments
2024/12/01
06:25 UTC

494

Deconstructed Formula 1 Race Car Suspended

10 Comments
2024/12/01
06:10 UTC

3,859

The skull of a Deinosuchus, one of the largest crocodilians to ever live

49 Comments
2024/12/01
06:03 UTC

12,336

This is the crater created by Mount Tambora’s eruption in 1815 was the largest in recorded history. It caused a 'year without a summer,' leading to global crop failures and food shortages.

229 Comments
2024/12/01
03:38 UTC

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Casting call for Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video

14 Comments
2024/12/01
03:03 UTC

4,616

Mike Tyson had his own cartoon.

247 Comments
2024/12/01
02:11 UTC

562

Throwback to 1985: How Credit Cards Worked Before the Digital Age

180 Comments
2024/12/01
00:24 UTC

2,691

Protesters Using Fireworks Machine Gun in Tbilisi, Georgia

279 Comments
2024/11/30
23:39 UTC

167

Tallest zipline in the Americas, over a canyon in south of Brazil, height of 750m

34 Comments
2024/11/30
22:45 UTC

3,898

The vault located in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway is an underground repository designed to preserve 4.5M seeds of crop plants from around the world, acting as a safeguard against the loss of genetic biodiversity due to natural disasters, conflicts, and climate change.

113 Comments
2024/11/30
22:23 UTC

21,412

this is a photo of the last public execution in France using the Guillotine, and it was taken in 1939.

625 Comments
2024/11/30
20:12 UTC

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The voice of the legendary Florence Nightingale who was born over 200 years ago, recorded on a wax phonograph cylinder in her later years.

36 Comments
2024/11/30
19:54 UTC

3,566

Kids demonstrating the effectiveness of the Roman Testudo formation

197 Comments
2024/11/30
19:09 UTC

13,081

Brown bear population by country (2023)

1205 Comments
2024/11/30
19:07 UTC

11,642

On This Day, Ann Elizabeth Fowler Hodges was Struck by a Meteorite while Sleeping, Becoming the First Verified Human to be Injured by an Extraterrestrial Object.

154 Comments
2024/11/30
18:43 UTC

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