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r/Damnthatsinteresting stats
r/Damnthatsinteresting has 20,639,628 members and gets about 10.0 new posts a day. The best time to post is Friday around 4am US Eastern.
- Members
- 20.6M
- Posts per day
- 10.0
- Avg comments
- 212.9
- Created
- 2013
From the subreddit: For the most interesting things on the internet
Best time to post on r/Damnthatsinteresting
When this month's top 100 posts went up, weighted by score. Times are US Eastern.
- #1
Fri 4am
- #2
Wed 10am
- #3
Fri 12pm
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Top posts this month
- In Southeast Asia, thousands of ducks are deployed into rice fields to act as natural pest control and weeders▲ 72K
- The "Duck" in Avenida Place hotel, Barcelona, Spain.▲ 61K
- 10 F1 cars suddenly limited to 30 km/h because of a software bug▲ 50K
- Copper cable and a single optical fiber that replaced it with the same capacity▲ 48K
- This is a baby flamingo. Flamingos are not pink. They are born with grey feathers, which gradually turn pink in the wild because of a dye called canthaxanthin obtained from their diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae▲ 43K
Who buys on r/Damnthatsinteresting
Readers following technology, programming and science. Good for developer tools, consumer tech and education products.
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Common questions
r/Damnthatsinteresting has 20,639,628 members, read from Reddit on October 27, 2026.
Based on when this month's top posts went up, Friday around 4am US Eastern. Check the heatmap for runner-up slots.
It gets about 10.0 new posts a day, and a new post averages 212.9 comments.
Read the subreddit rules first; most business subreddits remove promotional posts. What works is answering posts where someone asks for help, being genuinely useful, and disclosing when you mention your own product.
Watch for posts where someone asks for a recommendation, a quote, or an alternative to a tool. Leadhoot watches r/Damnthatsinteresting for you, scores every new post 0–100 for buyer intent, and alerts you within a minute of the high scorers.
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