The male brain amazes me — why is my fiancé reading about the history of the Spanish monarchy right now
It’s 2am and your fiancé is deep in the Habsburg jaw pipeline. Let him cook. The male brain is a beautiful, terrifying thing. One minute...
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Tumblr thread: Victorian era outside the UK energy
Classic Tumblr thread taking the “Victorian era” label and applying it everywhere else to show how Eurocentric our historical framing is. The thread starts by...
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The Founding Fathers Never Had a Sandwich and That Explains Everything
“it does blow my mind that the sandwich as we know it wasn’t a thing until the late 18th century. the constitution was written by...
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Cretan Bratt Pitt: The Resistance Fighter Who Looked Like a Movie Star
A Twitter/X post by Savvas Vlassis highlights a group of Cretan resistance fighters — among them, the unknown fighter on the left who looks strikingly...
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Ancient Roman Takeout Counter Makes Twitter User Question Civilization
A Twitter/X user shares an article about an archaeological discovery at Pompeii — a 2,000-year-old thermopolium (ancient Roman fast-food counter) — and the top reply...
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Good Morning to This Headline Only
A Twitter/X user shares a bizarre headline about Princess Diana with a simple caption: “good morning to this headline only.” The replies are chaos. The...
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The ancient artifact quest trope has a final boss
Twitter thread about the video game quest trope that keeps on giving: “Help us, they are stealing our ancient artifact!” → “Thank you, as a...
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The Oldest Story Still Hits Different
Something that gives me chills: the fact that the oldest surviving story we know — the Epic of Gilgamesh — was written by the oldest...
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