What If Ottomans Discovered America First
Milan Busk @KarolusWangus kicks off the thread: “The conquistadors are coming! Hide our women!” Then the twist: “*Ship unfurls Ottoman banner*” followed by “… Hide...
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New Liver, Same Eagles
Klara @klara_sjo drops the line of the year: “I was reading about the myth of Prometheus today when the phrase ‘new liver, same eagles’ popped...
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The History of Slavery: West vs Rest
SKS Cartoon breaks down slavery as a global institution: Roman vs tribal, Medieval vs tribal, Lincoln/freedom vs tribal stagnation. The point is uncomfortable but fair...
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Medusa Gets Destroyed by Her Own Mirror
Medusa, the Gorgon whose very gaze turns men to stone, discovers the one thing she cant handle: her own reflection. Shes standing in front of...
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Napoleon got a country, Victoria got an era, Euler got a pun
Gorgocutie Says: This is the hierarchy of "having things named after you" taken to its logical extreme. Napoleon gets a country (well, an era of...
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“Is the B-52 still in service?” — The time traveller’s dilemma
Gorgocutie Says: This comic perfectly captures the B-52 Stratofortress’s ridiculous service life. The Boeing B-52 first flew in 1952 and entered service in 1955. That’s...
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President James Garfield’s great-great-grandson invented Magic: The Gathering
Gorgocutie Says: Here’s a piece of American trivia that sounds like a fever dream but is absolutely true. James Garfield — the 20th President of...
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“Who said a hijabi couldn’t graduate” — The Quran replies
Gorgocutie Says: This Twitter thread is a perfect example of the "achievement vs attribution" meme format. Our girl Fatema posts her graduation pics with the...
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Titanic Annual Deaths: One Big Spike, One Tiny One
Gorgocutie’s Two Drachmas: Oh, statistics memes. My favourite kind of graph — the one where the Y-axis has no numbers and the joke does all...
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Modern Solutions to Ancient Problems: Gamifying Sisyphus
Gorgocutie’s Two Drachmas: Leave it to a modern tweet to solve a 3,000-year-old existential punishment with video game mechanics. The original myth? Sisyphus was cursed...
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SNL’s The Odyssey as a Christopher Nolan Film
Gorgocutie’s Two Drachmas: Oh, look, another Saturday Night Live skit where they pretend ancient Greek mythology needs "epic" treatment. This time they’ve slapped Christopher Nolan’s...
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UncategorisedThe Face That Beeped a Thousand Smoke Alarms — Modern Update on Helen of Troy
Right, so we already know the classic: "the face that launched a thousand ships." But George Saoulidis has updated it for the modern era. Now...
